Martin Störi

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Martin Störi († December 2, 1544 in Kaiserstuhl ) was the librarian of the St. Gallen monastery .

He came from Kaiserstuhl. On March 4, 1512, still as a St. Gallen novice , he is attested as an acolyte in Constance . In the course of the turmoil of the Reformation in 1529, he was briefly captured in St. Gallen . He then fled first to Wil and later to Einsiedeln . Back in St. Gallen, Abbot Diethelm Blarer von Wartensee commissioned him to organize the monastery library . Johannes Hofmeister from Lindau was at his side .

literature

  • Rudolf Henggeler : Profession book of the princely. Benedictine abbey of St. Gallus and Otmar in St. Gallen. Einsiedeln 1929, p. 244, no.86.
  • Paul Staerkle: Contributions to the late medieval educational history of St. Gallen. In: Communications on Patriotic History. 40 (1939), pp. 5-323, here pp. 59 f.
  • Franz Weidmann : History of the library of St. Gallen from its foundation around the year 830 up to 1841. Edited from the sources on the millennial jubilee. St. Gallen 1841, p. 60.
predecessor Office successor
Hans Hofmeister Librarian from St. Gallen
1530s
Sartor