Michael Schnabel

Michael Schnabel (born September 17, 1607 in Pfaffstätten in Lower Austria, † March 24, 1658 in Vienna ) was an Austrian Cistercian and 51st abbot of the Heiligenkreuz Abbey .

Life

Michael Schnabel was born as the son of impoverished monastery subjects. When his father died in 1616, the monastery paid for his upbringing and was taught music and science in the monastery. His clothing took place in 1622, his profession in 1624. He was then sent to the University of Vienna for further training , where he became a bachelor of philosophy in 1631 . He celebrated his primacy in 1631 .

At the request of Abbot Balthasar Huebmann from the Alsatian monastery in Neuburg , he was sent by the Abbot from Heiligenkreuz to where he taught logic and morals until 1634. When the Heiligenkreuz abbot Christoph Schäffer was suspended from the administration of the monastery, Michael was appointed by the vicar general of the responsible order province, the abbot Ignaz Krafft von Lilienfeld , as subprior in Heiligenkreuz and held this office from 1634 to 1636. In the same year he started of the University of Vienna, the rigors from the entire theology, but refused to accept the doctorate. He was elected abbot on September 8, 1637 and died on March 24, 1658.

Works

• Memorabilia (...) circa statum monasterii Sanctae Crucis . Autograph from 1637.
• Rudolf Lewandowski: The Cistercian Monastery of Heiligenkreuz 1500-1650 (dissertation Vienna 1941), pp. 203–244.

literature

• Florian Watzl: The Cistercians of Heiligenkreuz . Graz 1898, p. 69f.

predecessor	Office	successor
Christoph Schäffer	Abbot of Heiligenkreuz Abbey 1637–1658	Clemens Schäffer