Lambert Karner

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Lambert Karner OSB (birth name Ferdinand Karner ) (born April 19, 1841 in Kirchberg an der Pielach ; † December 17, 1909 in Göttweig Abbey ) was a Lower Austrian pastor, speleologist and archaeologist .

Lambert Karner's grave in the convent cemetery

Life

Ferdinand Karner, son of a leather master craftsman in Kirchberg an der Pielach, was accepted into the singing alumni (Stiftsschule) in Melk Abbey at the age of eleven and graduated from grammar school in 1860. In the same year he entered the Göttweig monastery as a novice, where he was given the religious name Lambert . In 1865 he made his solemn profession and was ordained a priest. Until 1874, Father Lambert worked as a chaplain in Göttweig and Mautern , then as a pastor in Roggendorf , in Gösing am Wagram , in Brunnkirchen and in St. Veit an der Gölsen . In addition to his job, he devoted himself to archeology and prehistory. For example, it is thanks to him that the bronze situla from the Latène period was recovered from buffers , about which he also published. His real research area, however, were the earth stables , which had occupied him since 1878. To this end, he visited hundreds of plants, which he reported on in numerous lectures and articles. That is why he was commonly referred to as the “cave pastor”. His main work on these artificial caves provided important impulses for pan-European research into earth stables; it is still considered fundamental today. For this work he received the Knight's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order in 1904 .

His musical skills were revealed when he recognized and promoted Rosa Papier's singing talent . The future opera singer and singing teacher named Father Lambert her first music teacher in her biography. He also advocated a reform of church singing in line with strict Cecilianism .

A letter dated May 19, 1909 shows that he was seriously ill and was forced to return to Göttweig Abbey. " Vertebral caries " is entered as the cause of death in the death register of the Göttweig parish . On December 19, 1909 he was buried by Abbot Adalbert Dungel in the Göttweiger convent cemetery; the grave site has been preserved to this day.

The Lambert-Karner Road in Furth Göttweig is named after him.

Works

  • A grave field to Roggendorf , in: Leaves of the Association for Regional Studies of Lower Austria. NF 17, 1883, pp. 137-140.
  • About a bronzesitula find near Kuffarn in N. Ö. (Lecture) , in: Mittheilungen der Anthropologische Gesellschaft. NF 11, 1891, pp. 68-71.
  • The clergy and church music , St. Norbertus-Buchdruckerei, Vienna 1889.
  • Artificial caves from ancient times , Vienna 1903, reprint 2018, ISBN 978-3-96401-000-1 .

literature

  • Josef Weichenherger: Father Lambert Karner - a pioneer of earth stable research , in: Communications from the State Association for Speleology in Upper Austria. 35th year, 1989/2, complete series no. 39, Linz 1989, pp. 24–42 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
  • Clemens Lashofer : Profess book of the Benedictine monastery Göttweig. For the 900th anniversary of the foundation of the monastery (= studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order. Supplementary volume 26). EOS Verlag, St. Ottilien 1983, DNB 947774823 , pp. 324-325.

Web links

  • Österreichisches Bibliographisches Lexikon 1815-1950, Volume 3 (Delivery 13, 1963), p. 244 and online query

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Graf: Hymn and sacred folk song in the diocese of St. Pölten. In: Yearbook for regional studies of Lower Austria. New series 52, Vienna 1986, pp. 74-83 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
  2. ↑ Digitized version of the death register of the Göttweig parish (today: Paudorf-Göttweig parish), accessed on May 25, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Karner, Lambert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karner, Ferdinand (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian pastor, speleologist and archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchberg an der Pielach
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 1909
Place of death Göttweig Abbey