Konrat Boppert

Konrat Boppert (born February 10, 1750 in Konstanz , † July 31, 1811 in St. Paul Abbey in Lavanttal ) was a German Benedictine , priest and writer.

Life

Konrat Boppert entered the monastery of St. Blasien on June 6, 1773 and was ordained a priest in 1775. He had a violent temper and after an argument with younger priests he forgot himself completely and picked up a knife, but worse could be prevented. The incident nevertheless reached the abbot, who therefore sent him to the remote Ibach as parish administrator with the task of producing extracts from the church fathers. During this exile from the summer of 1799 to the spring of 1803, the Scutum fidei was created , which became well known after his death and was translated into German and French. The 12-volume work contains a meditation on the festival time for each day of the church year, always with a view to mass or communion; Then follows the evidence from the ecclesiastical writings in chronological order, and finally the Preces ante et post missam . The typeface was discontinued in the monastery printing house by the repeal commissioner Joseph Albrecht von Ittner . Konrat Boppert took the manuscript with him to St. Paul, from where it was later sent to the Herder publishing house in Freiburg and printed from 1853 to 1855.

Works

• Scutum fidei ad usus quotidianos sacerdotum. Tomi XII. (The first three volumes were printed for the first time in St. Blasien, the entire work then in Freiburg, from 1853 to 1855).

literature

• Joseph Bader , in: Freiburg Diöcesan Archive, Volume VIII, The former St. Blasien monastery on the Schwarzwalde and its scholars' academy , 1874

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Joseph Bader, in: Freiburg Diöcesan Archive, Volume VIII, The former St. Blasien monastery on the Schwarzwalde and his scholarly academy , p. 94, 1874