Suitbert Baumer

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Suitbert Bäumer OSB (born March 28, 1845 at Haus Leuchtenberg near Kaiserswerth as Johann Adolf Bäumer ; † August 12, 1894 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German Benedictine and liturgist .

Life

Bäumer graduated from high school in Düsseldorf, studied in Bonn and Tübingen , first law , then Catholic theology . In Tübingen he became a member of the Catholic student association AV Guestfalia in 1864 . Then he joined the newly founded Benedictine monastery of St. Martin in Beuron in the Danube Valley, which at that time only had six members. He was dressed as a novice there on January 5, 1865 and was given the religious name 'Suitbert'. On October 5, 1866, he took his religious vows and was ordained a priest on June 3, 1869 . He worked in the monastery as a librarian and lecturer for canon law and exegesis .

As a result of the Kulturkampf of 1875, the Beuron monks were forced to emigrate and relocated. a. to the newly founded Maredsous Monastery in Belgium . Here - as in the meantime also in Erdington Abbey near Birmingham - Bäumer worked for a long time as a sub prior . He devoted himself to liturgical and patristic studies with great zeal and directed the local liturgical printing house of the Desclée brothers in Tournai .

In the years 1886 to 1894 he first worked on the history of the breviary , drawing on extensive material collections that he had put together in German and foreign libraries and their manuscript holdings. With his participation, various magazines and editions of the Roman Breviary (1882), the Benedictine Breviary (Breviarium monasticum, 1884), the Missal and the Rituals and a new Vulgate (1885) appeared.

In 1890 he returned to Beuron in the position of subprior, but in the spring of 1894 he became seriously ill with an inherited heart condition as a result of continued overexertion. To recover he was brought to the Sisters of Mercy in Heitersheim near Freiburg; There he died on August 12, 1894. He was buried in the Beuron monastery crypt.

Works (selection)

Monographs
  • Johannes Mabillon. A picture of life and literature from the XVII. and XVIII. Century. Augsburg 1892.
  • The Apostles' Creed. Its history and its content. Mainz 1893.
  • History of the Breviary. Attempt at a source-like representation of the development of the early church and the Roman office up to our day. Freiburg im Breisgau 1895 (online) .
    • Histoire du bréviaire, translated by R. Biron, Paris 1905 (online) .
Essays
  • The Benedictine martyrs in England under Henry VIII. In: Studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches . 1887, pp. 502-531; 1888, pp. 22-38, 213-234.
  • The monastery tower in England under Henry VIII. In: Journal of Catholic Theology . 1889, pp. 461-505.
  • Significance of the monastic reform of Cluny. In: Historical-political papers . Vol. 103, 1889, pp. 489-508.
  • The Cluniacens in the 10th, 11th and 12th centuries. In: Historisch -politisches Blätter , Vol. 103, 1889, pp. 337–352; 420-442.
  • The feast of the birth of the Lord in the early Christian liturgy. Epiphany or Christmas? In: Der Katholik, Third Series, Vol. 1, 1890, pp. 1-25 (online) .
  • Look at the history of the liturgy and its literature in the 19th century. In: Historisches Jahrbuch , 1890, pp. 44–76.
  • The Stowe Missal re-examined. In: Journal of Catholic Theology. 1892, pp. 446-490.
  • About the so-called Sacramentarium Gelasianum. In: Historical yearbook. 1893, pp. 241-301.
  • The Micrologus is a work by Bernold von Konstanz. In: New archive of the society for older German history . 1893, pp. 429-446.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Bäumer, Suitbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bäumer, Johann Adolf (original name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Benedictine monk and liturgist
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH at Kaiserswerth
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1894
Place of death Freiburg