Joseph Anton Franz Hohenbaum van der Meer
Joseph Anton Franz Hohenbaum van der Meer (better known under the religious name Moritz Hohenbaum van der Meer ; born June 25, 1718 in Sirmium near Belgrade , today Sremska Mitrovica ; † December 18, 1795 in Rheinau Monastery ) was a Swiss Benedictine , historian , archivist and Notary .
Life
Joseph Anton Franz Hohenbaum van der Meer was the son of the Baden-Durlach court advisor and auditor Johann Kaspar van der Meer and Anna Franziska von Spörl, daughter of a bailiff from Frauenalb . He was born in the field camp near Belgrade, at the time of the peace negotiations on the Peace of Passarowitz . In 1730 he lost his parents and was accepted into the Rheinau monastery, where he made his profession in 1734 and took the religious name Moritz. In 1741 he was ordained a priest . He wrote numerous writings, especially on the source research of the monastery history, most of which were not printed and are kept in the Zurich Central Library. He maintained extensive correspondence with other monasteries and scholars of his time, such as Martin Gerbert . He was a professor of moral theology and philosophy . In 1753 he became governor in Mammern . From 1758 to 1774 he was prior , 1759 apostolic notary and archivist and from 1776 to 1791 secretary of the Swiss Benedictine Congregation . One of his students was the historian Ildephons Fuchs .
Works
89 works are listed, some in several folio volumes, mainly on the history of the Landgraviate of Klettgau and the Counts of Sulz , the history of the Rheinau monastery and the life of St. Fintan von Rheinau .
literature
- Gerold Meyer von Knonau : Hohenbaum van der Meer, Joseph Anton Franz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, pp. 657-659.
- Christoph Eggenberger: The Fathers Moritz Hohenbaum van der Meer and Basilius Germann : Two learned Benedictines of the 18th century . In: The library of the Rheinau Benedictine monastery in the Zurich Central Library . Zurich Central Library, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-299-00031-4 , pp. 75–78.
Web links
- Judith Steinmann: Hohenbaum van der Meer, Moritz. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hohenbaum van der Meer, Joseph Anton Franz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hohenbaum van der Meer, Moritz (religious name); Hohenbaum van der Meer, Mauritius; Hohenbaum van der Meer, Moriz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss Benedictines and historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1718 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sirmium |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 18, 1795 |
| Place of death | Rheinau |