Robert Bootz
Robert Bootz (born August 1650 in Großlittgen ; † 20th May 1730 in the Monastery Himmerod ) one was German Cistercian abbot .
Life
Robert Bootz was born in August 1650 as the son of Matthias Bootz and his wife Helena Heck (both were connected to the Himmerod Monastery) in Großlittgen. Bootz entered the monastery at the age of 18 and was ordained a priest there around 1674 . Shortly afterwards he was commissioned to rearrange the monastery archives and library , as they had been affected by the Thirty Years' War . During this activity he acquired both historical and legal knowledge and was also employed as a sub prior .
In 1685, after the death of the then abbot Johannes Post, Bootz was directly elected as his successor in the monastery. He received the blessing for this office on February 7, 1685 from Auxiliary Bishop Maximilian Heinrich Burmann. Father Abbot Petrus Bouchu of Clairvaux then confirmed the election on June 30th. Thus Bootz was the 45th abbot of the monastery. He took particular care of economic aspects and kept the copy book . In 1686 he was also appointed visitor of the Clairvaux monastery ; in the following year he was also given the office of vicar general of the Cistercians for Lower Germany and the Rhineland ; thus 18 men and 57 women monasteries were incumbent on him.
In the year after his appointment as abbot, he had a hospital built and was in charge of the restoration of the sick chapel . In addition, in 1688 he completed the construction of the new monastery, which had been started by Abbot Matthias Glabus († 1648). Bootz also built a chapel in honor of the monk David von Himmerod , who died in 1179 ; he also had the monastery courtyards rebuilt. However, further projects could not be implemented.
Bootz pursued a desire to promote studies in the monastery. So he called in 1700 from the Jesuit order coming lecturers and in the years 1708-1723 canons of Premonstratensian to lecture at the monastery Himmerod. 1706 he was appointed rector of the academic senate of the University of Trier ; he held this position for three years.
Robert Bootz died in the monastery on May 20, 1730 and was buried in the chapter house . He was succeeded by Ferdinand Pesgen; a later abbot of the monastery, Anselm Raskop, was Bootz's nephew. Ambrosius Schneider, who was abbot of the monastery from 1971 to 1991, describes Bootz as the most important abbot of the monastery.
plant
- Series abbatum Claustri BMV in Hemmenrode
literature
- Gregor Brand : Bootz, Robert. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 20, Bautz, Nordhausen 2002, ISBN 3-88309-091-3 , Sp. 235-237.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bootz, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Cistercian abbot |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 1650 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Großlittgen |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 20, 1730 |
| Place of death | Himmerod Monastery |