Martin Resch

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Martin Resch (born August 13, 1649 in Gmunden ; † December 12, 1709 in Kremsmünster ) was Benedictine and abbot of Kremsmünster Abbey .

Life

Martin Friedrich Resch was born in Gmunden as the son of the sacristan Martin Resch and his wife Eva Barbara. Because of his musical talents, he came to Munich early on, where he graduated from the Jesuit high school there (today Wilhelmsgymnasium Munich ) as a seminarist at the Domus Gregoriana . He then studied and earned his doctorate in philosophy and law at the University of Ingolstadt. Due to a sudden serious illness, he turned down a position at the court of the Archbishop of Salzburg and decided to live in quiet seclusion in Kremsmünster Abbey, where he was ordained a priest in 1681.

For the next 6 years he taught canon law at the University of Salzburg and in 1685 published his work "Tractat de jure patronatus". In the monastery, Martin Resch u. a. from 1688 the office of novice master and from 1693 also that of pen priors . From 1698 he took over the care of the Vorchdorf parish , but remained connected to the monastery by managing various businesses. This led to the fact that in 1704 he was elected abbot of Kremsmünster Abbey with the most votes, which office he held briefly but gloriously until 1709. After a stroke, Abbot Martin had to resign on July 26th. Shortly after the election of the new head of the monastery, he died on December 12, 1709 and, following tradition , was solemnly buried on the right of the high altar, at the altar of St. Agapitus of Praeneste .

Act

In 1704, the year he was elected abbot, Resch was also elected university assistant in Salzburg. Appointed to the imperial council two years later, in 1707 he became head of the estate accounting office, which resulted in more and longer stays in the capital.

In addition to the expansion of a road over the steep mountain from the monastery into the valley, the so-called "killing stallion", the renovation of Kremsegg Castle also fell during his term of office. In the monastery itself, he had several structural changes made, expanded the library's holdings and bought a forest, the so-called "Leombacher Holz".

During his entire tenure he devoted himself to legal studies with zeal and was a sought-after expert on legal cases that were brought before him again and again.

literature

Web links

  • Martin Resch in the Biographia Benedictina (Benediktinerlexikon.de)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vol., Munich 1970–1976; Vol. 1, p. 193; wrong assignment there.
predecessor Office successor
Honorius Aigner Abbot of Kremsmünster Abbey
1704–1709 		Alexander II Strasser
personal data
SURNAME Resch, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of Kremsmünster
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1649
PLACE OF BIRTH Gmunden
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1709
Place of death Kremsmünster