Leo Cunibert Mohlberg

Leo Cunibert Mohlberg (born April 17, 1878 in Efferen , † May 21, 1963 in Glees ) was a German liturgical scholar and librarian .

life and work

After high school in Cologne and Seckau , Mohlberg entered the Maria Laach Abbey in 1897 as a Benedictine . After his ordination in 1903, he devoted himself to historical studies at the Catholic University of Leuven , which he completed in 1911 with a doctoral thesis on Radulph de Rivo. Ildefons Herwegen transferred the office of monastery librarian to Mohlberg. In addition to his library work, he was interested in the re-establishment of liturgical science. In 1924 Giovanni Mercati appointed Mohlberg as a librarian at the Vatican Apostolic Library . From 1929 he worked as professor for special ancient church history at the Pontifical Institute for Christian Archeology . Since 1950 he has also taught at the Benedictine College of San Anselmo .

In 1927, the then director of the Zurich Central Library , Hermann Escher, won him over for the description and cataloging of the medieval manuscripts there . Over a period of 20 years, deliveries of the 648-number catalog of the manuscripts of the Zurich Central Library were published . In its time, the catalog was regarded as a model of scientific meticulousness and was probably the main reason for the award of an honorary doctorate by the University of Zurich in 1958.

literature

Leo Cunibert Mohlberg: Confidential information from my handling of medieval manuscripts . In: Miscellanea historica in honorem Alberti De Meyer . tape 2 . Bibliothèque de l'Université, Louvain 1946.

Web links

Häußling OSB, Angelus A .: Mohlberg, Kunibert. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 694 f. ( Digitized version ).
Literature by and about Leo Cunibert Mohlberg in the catalog of the German National Library
Entry on Leo Cunibert Mohlberg in Kalliope

Individual evidence

^ Leo Cunibert Mohlberg: Catalog of the manuscripts of the Central Library Zurich I: Medieval manuscripts . Zurich 1951 ( zb.uzh.ch (PDF) [accessed on July 27, 2019]).
^ Anton Hänggi: † P. Leo Cunibert Mohlbert OSB (1878–1963) . In: Journal for Swiss Church History . tape 57 , 1963, pp. 254–256 ( e-periodica.ch [accessed July 27, 2019]).

personal data
SURNAME	Mohlberg, Leo Cunibert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German liturgical scholar and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH	April 17, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH	Effers
DATE OF DEATH	May 21, 1963
Place of death	Glees

[1] Leo Cunibert Mohlberg: Catalog of the manuscripts of the Central Library Zurich I: Medieval manuscripts . Zurich 1951 ( zb.uzh.ch (PDF) [accessed on July 27, 2019]).

[2] Anton Hänggi: † P. Leo Cunibert Mohlbert OSB (1878–1963) . In: Journal for Swiss Church History . tape 57 , 1963, pp. 254–256 ( e-periodica.ch [accessed July 27, 2019]).