Rupert Kornmann

Rupert Kornmann

Rupert Kornmann OSB (born September 22, 1757 in Ingolstadt ; † September 23, 1817 in Kumpfmühl near Regensburg ) was a mathematician, philosopher, theologian and the last abbot of the Benedictine monastery under Regensburg.

Life

Rupert Kornmann completed grammar school and studied philosophy with the Jesuits in Amberg , where the family moved soon after his birth, after his father had received the posts of military building and economic administrator and electoral chamber secretary. Although he was related to Prince Abbot Frobenius Forster from the Sankt Emmeram monastery in Regensburg and had already spent his autumn holidays several times in this important Benedictine abbey, in 1776 he asked for admission to the tranquil Benedictine monastery outside the city. After his profession he studied theology in the monastery 's house study and was ordained a priest in 1780. In 1782 Abbot Martin Pronath sent him to the University of Salzburg for three years to study mathematics, law and the oriental languages . When he returned to the monastery, he taught philosophy, mathematics and physics in the monastery home study. A plan drawn up by him at this time to found a literary-artistic association of the Bavarian Benedictine monasteries did not come to fruition.

In 1790 he was finally elected by the monks ofChecking Abbey to succeed the late Abbot Martin Pronath. As abbot, he continued the promotion of scientific training and activities in the monastery, which his predecessor had already intensified. At the same time, he endeavored to consistently renew religious life and monastic discipline. In 1793 he was accepted as a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and in 1794 he was appointed extraordinary visitor to the Bavarian Benedictine Congregation . As a deputy of the prelate class, he fought for the preservation of the Bavarian abbeys in view of the threat of secularization .

When in 1803, in the course of secularization in Bavaria, the monastery testing was dissolved, he moved into his apartment in the town of Kumpfmühl, which is located between Regensburg and testing (today, like testing itself, a district of Regensburg). In the following years he worked as a writer for the renewal of religious and church life in Bavaria.

Works

Rupert Kornmann left behind an extensive literary oeuvre which, in addition to theological, philosophical and scientific treatises, also includes plays and musical plays, some of which were set to music by Benno Grueber from Weltenburg Abbey . Only the most important scriptures can be named below.

• with Beda Eichenseer, Leonhard Valtentin and Georg Wisnet: Sentences from the law of nature, mathematics and the theory of nature , Regensburg 1787.
• The two school teachers in one village, or the opposite education. A moral painting in three elevators , Stadtamhof 1804 (first time 1790).
• The sibyl of time from prehistoric times or political principles proven through history. Along with a treatise on political divination , 3 volumes, Regensburg 1810–1814.
• The good subjects. A rural moral painting with singing in 5 acts , 1812.
• The Sibyl of Religion from World and Human History , Munich 1813.
• Supplements to the two sibyls of time and religion , Regensburg 1818.

literature

• Anton Doeberl: Abbot Rupert Kornmann von Prifling , in: Historical-political sheets for Catholic Germany 149 (1912) 839f.
• Anton Doeberl: Abbot R. Kornmann and the church restoration , in: Historical-political sheets for Catholic Germany 151 (1913) 88–97 and 183–190.
• Manfred Knedlik, Georg Schrott (eds.): Rupert Kornmann vonprüfunging (1757-1817). A Benedictine Scholar Between Enlightenment and Restoration (Contributions to the History of the Diocese of Regensburg: Supplement 17), Regensburg 2007.
• Andreas Kraus:  Kornmann, Rupert. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 595 ( digitized version ).
• August Lindner: The writers and the members of the Benedictine order in today's Kingdom of Bavaria , Bd. 1, Regensburg 1880, 252-257.
• Paul Mai: Rupert Kornmann (1757-1817). Last abbot of checking , in: Contributions to the history of the diocese of Regensburg 23/24 (1989) 524-533.
• Franz Heinrich Reusch :  Kornmann, Rupert . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 721 f.