Roman Zirngibl

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Roman Zirngibl
Memorial plaque for Roman Zirngibl; Regensburg, Auergasse

Roman Zirngibl (baptized name Joseph ; born March 25, 1740 in Teisbach , today a district of Dingolfing ; † August 29, 1816 in Regensburg ) was a Bavarian Benedictine , historian, archivist and librarian.

Life

Born as the son of the electoral market clerk and court administrator Martin Zirngibl in Teisbach near Dingolfing, Roman Zirngibl attended the Jesuit high school in Landshut and entered the Benedictine Abbey of St. Emmeram in Regensburg on September 12, 1758 (religious name Romanus ). On November 4, 1759, he made his profession and was ordained a priest on July 2, 1764 after studying theology .

Until the abbey was abolished in 1810, he worked in various religious offices, particularly as prior (1784–1788 and 1794–1797) and provost in Haindling (1782–1784, 1788–1794 and 1797–1804). In addition to the administrative and pastoral duties, the library was also entrusted to him, first as a sub-librarian (1765) and finally in 1767 as a full librarian.

In 1776, Zirngibl received the first prize of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences  - 50 ducats - for answering a question and was elected a member in 1777. In the years up to 1783 he successfully completed four other tasks at the academy - more than any other.

After the secularization , Prince Primate Karl Theodor von Dalberg entrusted him in 1804 with the care of the archives of the secularized monasteries St. Emmeram, Ober- and Niedermünster and some mendicant monasteries in Regensburg. Because of his high level of expertise, Zirngibl remained in this position despite the incorporation of Regensburg into the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1810; The Bavarian government turned it into an "archival conservatory" in 1812, which Zirngibl kept until his death.

meaning

Zirngibl, although a self-taught scientist, was one of the leading Bavarian historians of his time. Of the essays published by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences between 1779 and 1818, more than half of the volume of all volumes - 3900 pages in 16 of the total of 43 essays - came from his pen.

His treatises are characterized less by their scientific knowledge than by an astute judgment in the critique of documents. Even if Zirngibl himself violated his own rules several times, he attached great importance not to relying on copies of previous authors, but always tried - unusually for the scientific standard of his time - to inspect the original of a document and a faithful copy of it to make.

Works

Zirngibl left about 30 printed and just as many unprinted fonts of varying value, v. a. from the area of ​​Regensburg's medieval history and the history of the order. Most of them appeared in the treatises of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and in Westenrieder's Contributions to the Fatherland History.

The unpublished writings during his lifetime include a diplomatic history of his monastery up to the 15th century in eight volumes. Other important works are: "History of the Propstey Hainspach" (Munich, 1802), "Ludwigs, des Baier's life story" (ibid., 1814) and the "History of the Baierischen Commerce" (written 1806, published 1818).

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SURNAME Zirngibl, Roman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zirngibl, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian Benedictine, historian, archivist and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1740
PLACE OF BIRTH Teisbach
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1816
Place of death regensburg