Lambert Nolle

Lambert Nolle OSB (born April 28, 1864 in Frohnstetten as Josef Nolle; † April 23, 1950 in Weingarten ) was a German teacher, priest and Benedictine monk .

Life

Josef Nolle was born in Frohnstetten in Baden-Württemberg in 1864, the son of a farmer and bakery owner. The gifted boy started school early at the age of five. At the age of 14 he began preparing for the teachers' college. After passing the entrance exam, he was initially employed as an assistant teacher in Killer near Hechingen. From 1882 to 1885 he then completed the teachers' seminar in Boppard , before taking up his first position in Bäratal .

His second position in Beuron with organist service in the parish and monastery church as well as in the monastery brought him into close contact with the Benedictines there . He took Latin lessons from 1886, later supplemented by ancient Greek. Finally, Nolle made the decision to join the order. On November 17, 1890, he made his profession and received the religious name Lambert.

In 1891 Lambert Nolle was sent to Erdington Abbey near Birmingham, where he studied philosophy and church history in addition to the English language. The study of dogmatics and morals followed. He was ordained a priest on July 15, 1894. In addition to his pastoral work in the parish of Erdington, Nolle was lecturer at the seminary for the subjects of catechetics and liturgy and from 1905 to 1912 subprior of Erdington Abbey.

After the end of the war in 1922 he had to leave the United Kingdom with the expelled German monks and came to Weingarten, where the monks took over the buildings of the Weingarten Imperial Abbey, which was secularized in 1803 and founded the Weingarten Abbey . From 1922 to 1928 Lambert Nolle taught at the Patriarchal Seminary in Jerusalem , where he was appointed Vice Rector, as a professor of philosophy and dogmatics.

From 1930, after returning to England , Nolle turned to school education and became a religion teacher and chaplain at a special school. After the war he returned to Weingarten via Rome , where he spent the last years of his life and mainly devoted himself to translations from English. Lambert Nolle died a few days before he turned 86.

Lambert Nolle published a large number of scientific works, in particular on biblical studies, catechesis and liturgy.

His home community honored him by naming Lambert-Nolle-Straße in Frohnstetten.

literature

• Wolfgang Urban : Lambert (Josef) Nolle (1864 to 1950) . In: Erika Jeuck and Wolfgang Schaffer (eds.): 1200 years (799-1999) Stetten am kalten Markt. History of the community and its districts Frohnstetten, Glashütte, Nusplingen, Storzingen . Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Ulm 1999, ISBN 3-88294-275-4 , pp. 478-480.