Severin Grill

Severin Matthias Grill OCist. (* February 12, 1893 in Markt Piesting ; † May 28, 1975 in Heiligenkreuz ) was an Austrian Cistercian and theologian .

P. Severin Grill around 1970

life and work

Matthias Grill was born as the son of winemakers Josef and Franziska Grill, attended grammar school in Wiener Neustadt from 1907 to 1914 , where he graduated from high school . He entered the novitiate of the Heiligenkreuz Abbey in 1914 and took the religious name Severin . He studied from 1915 to 1917 in Heiligenkreuz and was ordained a priest there on July 13, 1919 . From 1917 he studied at the University of Innsbruck . His doctorate as Dr. theol. concluded Grill with a work on the history of the order on December 12, 1921. In 1921 he taught at the grammar school in Wiener Neustadt until he was appointed professor for the Old Testament and oriental languages at the Institutum Theologicum in Heiligenkreuz in 1922 . He also headed the monastery library and was from 1940 to 1946 at the same time pastor of Sittendorf (Wienerwald community) .

Grill initially focused on the thunderstorm theophany in the Old Testament , and later on liturgical studies and Bible translations . After the Second Vatican Council , he published a number of popular writings on the contemporary understanding of the Holy Mass .

Grill died in Heiligenkreuz Abbey .

Works

• The thunderstorm in the Old Testament. Exegetical study , Vienna, Reissers, 1931; Vienna, Mayer, 1943 (Heiligenkreuzer Studien 1).
• The Talmud and Shulchan Aruch. A theological study for wider circles , Graz / Leipzig, Moser, 1934.
• University professor Dr. P. Nivard Johannes Schlögl , O. Cist 1864-1939. A brief appreciation , Heiligenkreuz, Mayer, 1949.
• The Princess of Peace . A theological novel from the 5th century , Vienna, Wiener Dom Verlag, 1949.
• Lexicon Syriaco-Latinum in Novum Testamentum , Vienna, Mechitaristen, 1952.
• The Old Testament in the light of literary and textual criticism , Vienna, Dom Verlag, 1957 (Heiligenkreuzer Studien 10).
• Comparative history of religion and church fathers , Horn, Ferdinand Berger, 1959 (Heiligenkreuzer Studien 11).
• Character pictures from the Old Testament , Klosterneuburg, Bernina, 1959.
• The models of the Eucharist in the Old Testament , Klosterneuburg, Bernina, 1960.
• The symbolic language of the Hohenlied , Heiligenkreuz, Stiftsbuchhandlung, 1964 (Heiligenkreuzer Studien 14).
• Sacrificium tremendum. Thoughts of an exegete on the reform of the liturgy , Zurich, Thomas, 1966.
• Hermeneutics of the Old Testament , Horn, Berger, 1966.
• Introduction to the pictorial language of the Old Testament , Heiligenkreuz, Heiligenkreuzer Verlag, 1968 (Heiligenkreuzer Studien 15).
• The Second Vatican Council. His story, his blessings and his abuse , Heiligenkreuz, 1969.

translator

• Books Josue , Richter , Ezekiel , in: The Holy Scriptures of the Old Covenant , ed. by Pius Parsch , Klosterneuburg, Volksliturgisches Apostolat Verlag, 1934, 1951.
• The New Testament based on the Syrian text. Special readings of the Peschitta versus the Greek and Latin text , Klosterneuburg / Munich, Volksliturgisches Apostolat, 1956.
• Bar Hadbschaba, History of the Persecuted Fathers for the Truth. Two biographies. I. Theodore of Mopsvestia. II. Nestorius , Vienna 1962 (Heiligenkreuzer Studien 12).
• Jakob von Sarug , The Church and Research , Vienna 1963 (Heiligenkreuzer Studies 13).
  • Jakob von Sarug, Research and the Sanctuary of the Church , Horn, Berger, 1971 (Heiligenkreuzer Studien 13 B).
• Jakob von Sarug, Selected Letters , 3 vol., Heiligenkreuz, Heiligenkreuzer Verlag, 1971–1972 (Heiligenkreuzer Studies 17).

literature

• Alkuin Volker Schachenmayr , formative professors in the development of theological teaching in the Cistercian monastery Heiligenkreuz 1802-2002 , Langwaden 2004, 201–215, 252–253.

Web links

• Short biography of the Austrian National Library
• Severin Grill estate