Othmar Helferstorfer

Othmar Helferstorfer, lithograph by Eduard Kaiser , 1861

Abbot's coat of arms

Othmar Helferstorfer OSB (born July 19, 1810 in Baden , Lower Austria ; † October 25, 1880 in Vienna ; actually Kaspar Helferstorfer ) was an Austrian Benedictine , abbot of the Vienna Schottenstift and Land Marshal of Lower Austria.

Life

Helferstorfer came after the visit of the Piarist grammar school and the Vienna Schottengymnasiums 1828 in the Scots Abbey and graduated in Theology at the University of Vienna . After his ordination in 1833 he was first prefect of the choir boys' convent and in 1835 preacher. In 1838 he was entrusted with the task of librarian ; as such, he organized and cataloged the monastery manuscripts and books. From 1842 he taught the humanity classes at the Schottengymnasium , after the reorganization of the school from 1850 Latin and German . As early as 1845 he had been appointed court preacher to the Vienna court orchestra. In 1854 he was appointed subprior of the Schottenstift, in 1856 director of the Schottengymnasium. He carried out all of these tasks until he was elected abbot of the Schottenstift in 1861.

Helferstorfer entered the political stage as abbot. In 1867 he was elected to the Lower Austrian Landtag and in 1868 to the House of Representatives of the Austrian Reichsrat . From 1870 until his death in 1880 he was Land Marshal of Lower Austria. In 1874 Helferstorfer received the Order of the Iron Crown, 2nd class , and in 1875 he was appointed a member of the manor house for life.

In 1880, Helferstorferstrasse in Vienna's Innere Stadt (1st district) was named after him. Likewise, a street in Maria Enzersdorf was named to the honorary citizen of the community in 1890.

literature

Helferstorfer Othmar (Kaspar). In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 256.
Cölestin Wolfsgruber : Abbot Othmar Helferstorfer. Life history outlines . In: Annual report of the kk Ober-Gymnasium on the Scots in Vienna at the end of the school year 1881 . Vienna 1881, pp. 93-98.

Individual evidence

^ Hannelore Hubatsch: Maria Enzersdorf, ways, alleys, streets and squares , 2016, Heimat Verlag

personal data
SURNAME	Helferstorfer, Othmar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Helferstorfer, Kaspar (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian chaplain, abbot of the Schottenstift and politician, member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH	July 19, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH	Baden (Lower Austria)
DATE OF DEATH	October 25, 1880
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Hannelore Hubatsch: Maria Enzersdorf, ways, alleys, streets and squares , 2016, Heimat Verlag