Maurus Wolter

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Archabbot Maurus Wolter OSB (left; painting in Beuron Abbey)

Maurus Wolter OSB (born June 4, 1825 in Bonn as Rudolf Wolter ; † July 8, 1890 in Beuron ) was a German Benedictine . He was the first Archabbot of the Beuron Archabbey and the founder and first leader of the Beuron Congregation .

Life

Rudolf Wolter was the son of the brewer Lorenz Wolter. Six of his twelve children became priests or nuns . Rudolf Wolter attended the Beethoven-Gymnasium Bonn from 1836 to 1844 and studied Catholic theology , philosophy and philology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . He was a co-founder of the conservative student association "Union" and participant in the Second Wartburg Festival in 1848 and had contact with the controversial Austrian philosopher and theologian Anton Günther ("Güntherianer"). In 1849 he was with a work "De spatio et tempore - About Space and Time" for Dr. phil. PhD .

In 1850 he entered the seminary in Cologne. On September 3, 1850, he received the Cologne Cathedral , the ordination by the Cologne Auxiliary Bishop Johann Anton Friedrich Baudri .

Wolter was active as a pastor in Jülich and at the same time headmaster of the general higher city school. In 1854 he took over the management of the school of the cathedral monastery in Aachen.

In 1856, Rudolf Wolter followed the example of his younger brother Ernst , who had become a Benedictine and adopted the religious name Placidus. He entered the Benedictine Abbey of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome , led by Reform Abbot Michael Papalettere , and received the religious name Maurus . In 1862 he completed a voluntary second novitiate in the French Benedictine Abbey of Solesmes . He was deeply impressed by Prosper Guéranger , Abbot of Solesmes.

Encouraged by Abbot Guéranger, Father Maurus and his brother Placidus founded the Benedictine priory in Beuron in 1863. The Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family made this former monastery of the Augustinian Canons in the Danube Valley available to the Wolter brothers . Father Maurus was first prior , and in 1868 first abbot of the Benedictine Beuron. After the Beuron Congregation was expelled from Beuron due to the Kulturkampf, the Emaus Monastery in Prague and in 1883 the Seckau Abbey were repopulated under the direction of Maurus Wolter . In 1884 Maurus Wolter was promoted to Archabbot of the Beuron Congregation.

Maurus Wolter published numerous scientific papers.

Works

  • Elementa. The foundations of Benedictine monasticism , Beuron 1955 [Ger. Version of "Praecipua Ordinis monastici Elementa"]
  • Praecipua Ordinis monastici Elementa , Bruges 1880 [Basic work on monastic life, lat.]
  • Psallite sapienter , Freiburg 1871–1890, 3rd ed. 1904–1907 [ Psalmenkommentar, Ger .]

literature

  • Anselm Schott : Life and work of the most honorable Dr. Maurus Wolter, Archabbot of Beuron . Süddeutsche Verlagbuchhandlung Stuttgart, 1891
  • Hermann Arthur Lier:  Wolter, Maurus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 44, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, pp. 170-172.
  • Suso Mayer OSB: As an introduction. The author and his work . In: Maurus Wolter OSB: Elementa. The foundations of Benedictine monasticism , Beuron 1955, pp. 5-33.
  • Ulrike Johanna Wagner-Höher: The Benedictines of St. Gabriel / Bertholdstein (1889–1919) , EOS Verlag St. Ottilien, ISBN 978-3-8306-7343-9

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predecessor Office successor
--- Prior of Beuron
1863–1868
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Dominikus Mayer CanReg Abbot of Beuron
1868–1884 / 1890
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--- Archabbot of Beuron and the Beuron Congregation
1884–1890
Placidus Wolter