Karl Wolfsgruber

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Karl Wolfsgruber (born June 2, 1917 in Percha , South Tyrol , † October 20, 2009 in Brixen ) was a Roman Catholic clergyman, monument conservator and university professor.

Life

Karl Wolfgruber was born in Percha and grew up in Innichen , where he attended elementary school. He attended the Vinzentinum episcopal boys' seminary and the seminary in Brixen. On June 22, 1940, as part of the South Tyrolean option , like Brixen's Bishop Johannes Geisler , he decided to emigrate to the Third Reich . On June 29, 1941, he was ordained a priest in Brixen . He initially worked as a cooperator in Monguelfo in the Puster Valley. From 1945 he studied history at the University of Vienna . In 1947, he was there with a dissertation on the Bressanone cathedral chapter doctorate . Until 1950 he was prefect at the episcopal Konvikt Cassianeum in Brixen. From 1947 to 1998 he was a diocesan archivist. From 1957 until his retirement in 1998 he was canon at Brixen Cathedral and from 1967 to 1975 cathedral dean . From 1959 to 1973 Karl Wolfsgruber was a professor at the Vinzentinum and the Philosophical-Theological University of Bressanone . From 1965 to 1971 Wolfsgruber was editor of the monthly magazine Der Schlern . From 1975 to 1992 he was provost of the cathedral in Brixen.

He received national recognition for his commitment as the first state curator in South Tyrol and founding director of the State Monuments Office (from 1973 to 1982) and as director of the Diocesan Museum in Brixen (from 1989 to 1998). Karl Wolfsgruber was described as the "father of monument preservation in South Tyrol".

Honors

In 1963 he was awarded the Decoration of Honor of the State of Tyrol , in 1971 the Walther von der Vogelweide Prize and an honorary doctorate from the University of Innsbruck . In 1987 he was made honorary citizenship of the city of Brixen and in 1989 with honorary citizenship of Monguelfo. In 1989 Wolfsgruber received the Republic of Austria's Cross of Honor for Science and Art . Wolfsgruber was also an honorary citizen of Innichen.

Fonts

  • The Brixen cathedral chapter in its personal composition in modern times, 1500–1803 , Wagner 1951
  • The oldest land register of the Benedictine monastery Sonnenburg in the Pustertal (Austrian land register. Dept. 3. Land register of clergymen 5: The medieval land register of the diocese of Brixen, part 1). Vienna 1968
  • Bressanone Cathedral and Cloister , Athesia 1988
  • Il duomo e il chiostro di Bressanone , Athesia 1989
  • Nativity scenes in the Brixen Hofburg , Athesia 1990
  • Velthurns Castle , State Monument Office 1993

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Canon Josef Hohenegger and Canon Karl Wolfsgruber passed away" ( Memento from November 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on Südtirol Online from October 20, 2009
  2. ↑ a b c Josef Gelmi in Dolomiten - Tagblatt der Südtiroler of October 21, 2009; P. 19
  3. ↑ Josef Gelmi: The Optanten of the Brixen diocesan clergy . In: Rolf Steininger (Ed.): A life for South Tyrol: Canon Michael Gamper and his time . Bozen: Athesia 2017. ISBN 978-88-6839-257-4 , p. 138.
  4. ↑ Dissertation by Karl Wolfsgruber (University of Vienna, 1947)
  5. ↑ "Rin Kasslatter Mur pays tribute to the first public curator Karl Wolfgruber" release the country's Press Office of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano - South Tyrol on 20 October 2009
  6. ↑ Market town of San Candido: Obituary in the Dolomites - Tagblatt der Südtiroler of October 22, 2009; P. 6
personal data
SURNAME Wolfsgruber, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian clergyman, monument conservator and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Percha , South Tyrol
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 2009
Place of death Brixen