Kaspar Mohr
Kaspar Mohr (* 1575 in Busenberg, now Hochdorf ; † July 6, 1625 in Jebenhausen , now part of Göppingen ) was canon and (temporarily) prior of the Premonstratensian monastery Schussenried . Mohr invented a flying machine made of feathered wings with which he wanted to attempt a flight from the dormitory on the 3rd floor of the (old) monastery into the monastery garden.
Franz Georg Hermann immortalized his picture in 1755/57 in a ceiling painting of the New Schloß Schussenried Abbey.
biography
After a first lesson in the village school of Hochdorf, Kaspar Mohr attended the monastery school of Schussenried , where he was promoted by Prior Michael Mohr, his uncle.
Abbot Ludwig Mangold must have recognized Kaspar Mohr's abilities early on. He sent him to study at the University of Freiburg , where he was matriculated on November 24, 1599. Entry no. 5 reads: Frater Casparus Mohr, conventualis in Schussenried .
Kaspar Mohr was ordained diaconate and priest in Constance . When he returned to the Schussenried Monastery, he was obliged to do daily choral work there. He operated the organ, which he expanded into a great work. Mohr built a masterly clockwork and earned the reputation of a universal genius .
In 1610 he was elected by Abbot Martin Dietrich as his deputy prior. When the opportunity arose that same year to enable a local conventual to study in Rome , Kaspar Mohr was chosen.
After four years of study in the "Eternal City" he returned to Schussenried in 1614, endowed with the doctorate of theology issued on May 27, 1614 by the University of Perugia . In Rome, Kaspar Mohr also showed his diplomatic skills and was able to negotiate some important privileges for his monastery in Schussenried. He died in 1625 during a spa stay in Jebenhausen and was buried in Rechberghausen .
Honors
- The Progymnasium in Bad Schussenried is named after Kaspar Mohr.
literature
- Helmut English: The winged friar. How the Schussenried monk Kaspar Mohr wrapped himself in plumage and tried to fly , in: A monk flies over Swabia. Enjoyable story of clever and failed Swabians . Theiss, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-8062-1270-8
- Karl Kaufmann: "The Flying Canon" Dr. Kaspar Mohr . Self-published, Bad Schussenried 1995 (brochure)
- Hartmutöffel (Ed.): Upper Swabia as a landscape of flying: an anthology . Edition Isele, Eggingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-86142-429-1
- Simon X. Rost: The Flying Monk . Lübbe, 2010, ISBN 978-3-404-16428-8
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Hornung: Rechberghausen. The checkered history of a community. Published by the municipality of Rechberghausen, pp. 262–263.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mohr, Kaspar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mohr, Caspar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Premonstratensian canon and inventor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1575 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Busenberg, now Hochdorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 6, 1625 |
| Place of death | Jebenhausen |