Lukas Schenker

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Lukas Schenker , also Hans Schenker OSB (born July 13, 1937 in Däniken ; entitled to live there ) is a Swiss Benedictine and historian. From 1995 to 2008 he was abbot of the Beinwil and Mariastein monasteries .

Life

Hans Schenker, as Lukas Schenker's baptismal name was, was born in 1937 in Däniken. After attending primary school in his home town and the district school in Schönenwerd , he completed high school at the Altdorf College. After graduating from high school, Schenker entered the Mariastein monastery in 1958 and was ordained a priest in 1963. Between 1959 and 1964 he studied theology in Mariastein and was then a teacher at the Altdorf College for two years. Between 1966 and 1971 Schenker then studied history, Latin and education in Freiburg in Üechtland. He began his doctorate in 1971 and obtained a high school teacher diploma. Schenker received his doctorate in 1973 with a dissertation entitled "The Benedictine monastery of Beinwil in the 12th and 13th centuries". From 1971 to 1976 he taught again at the Altdorf College. In 1976 Lukas Schenker returned to the Mariastein Monastery and from then on worked as a librarian and archivist. In 1979 he published a guide to the Mariastein monastery and pilgrimage. Schenker has been working as an author for the Historical Lexicon of Switzerland since 1991 . In the 1990s he published a total of three writings on the history of Christianity and the Benedictines in Switzerland and the Mariastein monastery. In 1995 he was elected 40th Abbot of Beinwil and 18th Abbot of Mariastein. In 2008 Schenker resigned from his position, he was succeeded by Peter von Sury . Since then, Schenker has been working again as a librarian, archivist and pastor in Mariastein.

Works

  • The Benedictine monastery of Beinwil in the 12th and 13th centuries , contributions to its founding and early history, dissertation, special edition, “Yearbook for Solothurn History”, Volume 46, Historischer Verein des Kantons Solothurn / Solothurn Central Library, 1973
  • Mariastein , guide through pilgrimage and Mariastein, Eberle, Einsiedeln, 1979
  • Ecumenical Church History in Switzerland , Paulusverlag, Freiburg i. Ü., 1994
  • Exile and return of the Mariasteiner Konvent 1874–1981 , Verlag des Kloster Mariastein, 1999
  • Benedictine life in Switzerland from the beginning to the present in: Benedictine communities in Switzerland , 400 years of the Swiss Benedictine Congregation 1602–2002, Cavelti, Gossau, 2002

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predecessor Office successor
Mauritius prince Abbot of Mariastein
1995-2008 		Peter of Sury
personal data
SURNAME Schenker, Lukas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schenker, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Benedictines and historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Daniken