Maurus Friesenegger

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Father Maurus Friesenegger OSB (born February 22, 1589 in Dießen ; † May 11, 1655 in Andechs ) was abbot in the Bavarian monastery of Andechs from 1640 to 1655 . He is also known as the author of a diary from the Thirty Years War .

Life

Friesenegger (Christian name: Matthäus) was born in 1589 as the son of a baker in Dießen am Ammersee. In 1612 he completed his high school studies at the Jesuit high school in Munich (today Wilhelmsgymnasium Munich ). On November 1, 1614, he made his profession in the Benedictine monastery in Heiligenberg, now the Andechs priory . After completing his studies, he took care of the school of the small monastery seminary for ten years and then became a novice master . From 1627 to 1638 he was parish vicar of the parish »St. Vitus «Erling (now at Andechs) and at the same time sub- prior of the abbey. On September 28, 1640 he was elected the 16th abbot of Heiligenberg and consecrated the following day. He remained in this office until his death on May 11, 1655.

Like his predecessor Michael Einslin , he campaigned for the Counter-Reformation in the Upper Palatinate and promoted the Benedictine University of Salzburg, which was closely connected to the monastery.

Literary work

"No door, no lock, no box, no cupboard that was not broken, all corridors, all rooms, refectory, dormitory were filled with human and horse rubbish, with stench and horror [...]" (from the chronicle )

Friesenegger's "Tractatus de viris religiosis Monte sancto Andechs pietate et doctrina illustrioribus", a treatise on important Andechs monks, was probably destroyed in the monastery fire of 1669. Only a Latin chronicle, "Ephemerides Andecenses sive res gestae memoriae dignae de Monte sancto et Pago Erlingano congestae", which was completed in 1649, has survived. Friesenegger himself translated it into German with the title “Diary of Erling and Heiligenberg from the years 1627–1648 inc.”.

The diary describes the events of the war years 1627 to 1648 - in which the monastery and the surrounding villages were repeatedly occupied, plundered and completely devastated - from the perspective of the village of Erling and the monastery of Heiligenberg. It is one of the most important autobiographical evidence of its time.

expenditure

  • Franz Maria Ferchel (ed.): Chronicle of Erling and Heiligenberg during the Thirty Years' War: based on the manuscript of the then prelate Maurus Friesenegger. - Munich 1833. (first edition)
  • Willibald Mathäser (Ed.): Maurus Friesenegger. Diary from the 30 Years War. Hugendubel, Munich 1974. - New edition: Buch & Media, January 2007 - ISBN 3-86520-182-2 .
  • Maurus Friesenegger: Diary from the 30 Years War. Allitera Verlag, January 2007, ISBN 978-3-86520-182-9 .

literature

  • Hermann Hörger: The war years 1632 to 1634 in the diary of P. Maurus Friesenegger, later abbot of Andechs (1640-1655). In: Zeitschrift für Bayerische Landesgeschichte [ZBLG] 34, 1971, pp. 866–876 ( digitized version ).
  • Walther Killy (Ed.): Authors and works lexicon. Volume 4: Article "Friesenegger, Maurus", p. 32.
  • Hans-Michael Körner : Friesenegger, Maurus. In the S. (Ed.): Large Bavarian Biographical Encyclopedia. Volume 1. Saur, Munich 2005, p. 597.
  • Willibald Mathäser: Abbot Maurus Friesenegger and his diary from the Thirty Years War. In the S. (Ed.): Maurus Friesenegger: "Diary from the 30 Years War" 2nd edition. Munich 1996, pp. 7-13.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich. 4 volumes. Munich 1970–1976; Volume 1, p. 26.
personal data
SURNAME Friesenegger, Maurus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Abbot in Andechs Monastery
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1589
PLACE OF BIRTH These
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1655
Place of death Andechs