List of the abbey librarians of the St. Gallen monastery
This list includes the heads of the St. Gallen Abbey Library from its beginnings until today.
- Uto (approx. 861 to 864)
- Liuthart (from 867 to 872)
- Notker Balbulus (before 883 to 890)
- Waldram (from 905 to 909)
- Werinher (until 1133 Custos)
- Rumo of Ramstein (from 1263 to 1270 Custos)
- Hiltbold von Werstein (from 1297 to approx. 1301)
- Johannes Stöfer (late 15th century Custos)
- Franz Gaisberg (from 1491 to approx. 1496)
- Ulrich Heer (around 1500 custos)
- Berchtold Zimmermann (early 16th century Custos)
- Gallus head (early 16th century)
- Anton Vogt (around 1510)
- Johannes Schmid von Steinheim (around 1513)
- Albert Miles (custos from 1514 to approx. 1522)
- Konrad Haller (from 1523 to 1525 custos)
- Hans Hofmeister (1530s)
- Martin Störi (1530s)
- Sartor ? (Schneider) (1530s and 40s?)
- Mauritius Enk (1564; from 1571 to 1575)
- Jodocus Metzler (from 1604 to 1624)
- Bonifaz Rüedlinger (from 1624 to 1627)
- Beat Keller (from 1630 to 1633)
- Ambros Negelin (1634)
- Aegidius Jonas von Buch (from 1635 to 1640)
- Otmar Kessler (from 1640 to 1642)
- Iso Pfau (from 1661 to 1679)
- Dionys Mattlin (from 1679 to 1680)
- Hermann Schenk (from 1680 to approx. 1683; from 1692 to 1693; from 1705 to 1706)
- Constantius von Sonnenberg (from approx. 1683 to 1691)
- Hieronymus Lindenmann (1691)
- Burkhard Heer (from 1691 to 1705)
- Columban Bishop (from 1707 to 1707)
- Mauritius Müller (from 1707 to 1709; from 1711 to 1712; from 1712 to 1719 in exile; from 1719 to 1722; from 1734 to 1738)
- Innocenz Müller (from 1710 to 1711)
- Celestine Teschler (1711)
- Bernhard Frank von Frankenberg (from 1722 to 1729)
- Aemilian Zeller (from 1729 to 1733)
- Cölestin Gugger von Staudach (1733)
- Basilius Balthasar (from 1734 to 1737)
- Edmund Weidner (from 1737 to 1738)
- Notker Heine (from 1738 to 1740)
- Honorat Peyer in the courtyard (from 1741 to 1742)
- Chrysostomus Hailland (from 1743 to 1744)
- Karl Helbling (from 1745 to 1746)
- Antonin Rüttimann (from 1746 to 1748)
- Pius Kolb (from 1748 to 1762)
- Ulrich Berchtold (from 1761 to 1773)
- Gerold Brandenberg (from 1773 to 1774)
- Magnus Hungerbühler (from 1774 to 1780)
- Johann Nepomuk Hauntinger (from 1780 to 1823)
- Franz Josef Büeler (commissioner from 1804 to 1805)
- Konrad Meier (from 1805 to 1811)
- Ildefons of Arx (from 1824 to 1833)
- Franz Weidmann (from 1833 to 1834; from 1836 to 1843)
- Alois Fuchs (from 1833 to 1836)
- Guided tour by the library commission: Leonhard Gmür , Carl Johann Greith , Franz Buchegger (from July 1, 1845)
- Anton Henne (1855 to 1861)
- Franz Eduard Buchegger (from 1861 to 1868)
- Johann Baptist Näf (1868 to 1872)
- Franz Anton Rohrer (1872 to 1873)
- Otto Zardetti (1874 to 1876)
- Johann Nepomuk Idtensohn (1876 to 1892)
- Adolf Fäh (from 1892 to 1932)
- Josef Müller (from 1933 to 1947) (grandson of Martin Vogt )
- Johannes Duft (from 1948 to 1981)
- Peter Ochsenbein (from 1981 to 2000)
- Ernst Tremp (from 2000 to October 2013)
- Cornel Dora (since November 2013)