Stanislaus Wülberz

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Stanislaus Wülberz (born November 5, 1695 in Esslingen am Neckar , † July 2, 1755 in Bonndorf in the Black Forest ) was a German Benedictine , provost , historian and archivist .

Life

Stanislaus Wülberz was ordained a priest in 1720 in the monastery of St. Blasien . In 1725 he became archivist, from 1732 to 1749 provost in Gurtweil , where he and Laurentius Gump and Hugo Schmidfeld were encouraged to conduct further historical research. He and Father Laurentius Gump visited the archives in Switzerland in 1733/34, they copied over 1000 documents. Most of his 13 volumes on the history of the monastery were lost in the monastery fire in 1768. Nevertheless, his writings fill about 7 tomes , which are now in St. Paul, Einsiedeln and Karlsruhe.

Later he became provost of Bonndorf in the Black Forest and was buried there in the chapel of Our Lady , consecrated in 1727 . He had suffered a stroke while going to read mass in this chapel. Benedikt Wülberz was a brother of his.

Works

His handwritten notes are extensive: there are more than 7 volumes in folio, especially on the history of the St. Blasien monastery. In the seventh volume he dealt with 86 St. Blasian writers. Nothing was printed, later others used his works, especially Martin Gerbert .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Franz Xaver Kraus wrote here on p. 9/15 in 1892: "In Bonndorf there was also the chapel of Our Lady , founded in the 17th century and consecrated in 1727 , in which the S. Blasian historian Stanislaus Wülberz, who died here in 1755, was buried , and the palace chapel , built under Abbot Blasius III, consecrated in 1727 , which 'the latter was torn down at the beginning of the 19th century "(and rebuilt elsewhere)
  2. ^ Artur Riesterer: The former Liebfrauenkapelle in: City of Bonndorf in the Black Forest (ed.): Bonndorf. City on the Black Forest . Verlag Karl Schillinger, Freiburg, Bonndorf im Schwarzwald 1980, ISBN 3-921340-11-X , p. 87
  3. Franz Joseph Mone, Sources on Baden State History , p. 64, Volume 1