Maura Böckeler

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Maura Böckeler OSB (born January 16, 1890 in Aachen as Theresia Böckeler ; † October 29, 1971 in Rüdesheim - Eibingen ) was a German Benedictine , writer and researcher about Hildegard von Bingen .

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The niece of the collegiate conductor at Aachen Cathedral Heinrich Böckeler and aunt of the well-known church musician Hans Sabel first learned French in Fouron-le-Comte, now Voeren , Belgium , and then English in Cambridge, and completed both courses with an exam from. Then she decided as well as three of her sisters and two of her brothers for a monastic life and entered on March 28, 1913 as a postulant in the Abbey of St. Hildegard one. She was given the religious name Maura to dress and made her temporary profession on November 14, 1914 . During this time she learned Latin and Greek in self-study and then dealt mainly with the life and works of Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179), which the abbot of Maria Laach , Ildefons Herwegen , expressly advised her to do with this work also promoted. In 1928 Maura Böckeler published her first translations and revisions, which were followed by continuously revised editions. Initially, there were only partial translations, but gradually added to a complete work and as a basis for further research and publications on Hildegard von Bingen by other Hildegardis researchers such as Barbara Newman (in "Sister of Wisdom", 1987), Gertrud von le Fort (in "The Eternal Woman", 1934) or Edith Stein (in "The woman. Her task according to nature and grace") should serve. In particular, Sr. Adelgundis Führkötter OSB and Sr. Angela Carlevaris OSB tried about fifty years later to revise the old Latin critical edition, a work which Sr. Maura herself had always considered to be still necessary.

During the Second World War , the Benedictine nuns of St. Hildegard's Abbey were forced to leave their monastery. Sister Maura stayed with many of her fellow sisters in the Marienhaus monastery , the mother house of the Franciscan Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Angels , in Waldbreitbach . There she began to study the founder of the order, mother Rosa Flesch (1826–1906, beatified in 2008 ) and collected extensive material that she published after the war and her return to Eibingen in her work "The Power of Powerlessness". She dedicated this book to her exile monastery Marienhaus as a sincere thank you for the refuge she had given in difficult times. But now she mainly worked again on her research, translations and publications about Hildegard von Bingen, some of which were continued after her death in 1971 by her co-sister Walburga Storch and others.

Sister Maura Böckeler was not only one of the most important Hildegardis researchers, she was also well versed in the field of music and painting. On the one hand, her knowledge of early music benefited the performance of various Singspiele, in particular about Hildegard von Bingen, on the other hand, she particularly supported the works of art by the landscape painter Hanny Franke , who, at her request, included a saved painting depicting the last abbess of the old Klosters Eibingen, Philippina von Guttenberg (1734–1804), restored.

Works (selection)

  • Structure and basic idea of ​​the Ordo Virtutum of St. Hildegard ; in: Benedictine Monthly No. 5, 300-310, 1923
  • St. Hildegard von Bingen Dance of the Virtues Ordo Virtutum ; a Singspiel; Barth, Prudentiana (music); Böckeler, Maura. Sankt Augustinus, Berlin 1927
  • The great sign, Apocalypse 12, 1, the woman as a symbol of divine reality . O. Müller, Salzburg 1941
  • The comforting spirit . Christophorus-Verlag, Freiburg i.Br. 1948
  • Hildegard von Bingen: Know the ways. Scivias . Based on the original text of the illuminated Rupertsberger Codex, translated into German and edited by Maura Böckeler. O. Müller, Salzburg 1954.
  • The power of powerlessness, mother Maria Rosa Flesch . Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 1962

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SURNAME Böckeler, Maura
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Böckeler, Theresia (former name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Benedictine and Hildegardis researcher
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1971
Place of death Eibingen