Karl Stengel (theologian)

Karl Stengel OSB (born January 29, 1581 in Augsburg , † January 27, 1663 there ) was a German abbot of the Benedictine monastery in Anhausen an der Brenz and an important theological writer of his time.

Life

In 1593 he entered the Benedictine Abbey of Sankt Ulrich und Afra in Augsburg , where he made solemn religious vows in 1596. In 1630 he was elected abbot of the Anhausen monastery. As a result of the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War , he was expelled from his monastery in 1632. After returning and three years of efforts to rebuild the devastated monastery, he had to flee again in 1638. In 1647 he finally returned to his professed monastery in Augsburg, where he stayed until his death.

His extensive literary work includes 99 works on church history, order history and hagiography .

Fonts

• Vitae ss. Wilhelmi abbatis Hirsangiensis et Wilhelmi Gellonensis / nunquam adhuc editae ex mss. codicibus erutae commentario & notis illustratae auctore Carlo Stengelio. Dabertzhofer, Augustae Vindelicorum 1611 ( digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf ).
• Rerum Augustanarum commentarius. Ingolstadt 1647.
• Caeremoniale Benedictinum. Dillingen 1641.
• Monasteriologia. 2 parts. Augsburg 1620 digital copy of the BSB Munich and 1638 digital copy of the BSB Munich .

literature

• Franz Heinrich Reusch:  Stengel, Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, p. 49.
• Wetzer and Weltes Kirchenlexikon. Volume 11. 2nd edition, 1899.
• Thomas M. Krüger: The Abbey of Sankt Ulrich and Afra and their culture of remembrance in the 16th and early 17th centuries . In: Manfred Weitlauff (ed.), Benedictine Abbey of St. Ulrich and Afra (Yearbook of the Association for the History of the Augsburg Diocese 45), Augsburg 2011, pp. 180–199 (especially pp. 188–191).