Thomas Bauer (theologian)

Thomas Bauer OSB (born April 20, 1821 in Mitterskirchen ; † December 9, 1893 in Metten ), baptized Michael, was a Catholic theologian and Benedictine in the Bavarian monastery of Metten .

biography

Michael Bauer attended the Latin school in Burghausen and the grammar school in Passau . As a pupil of the Jesuits at the Collegium Germanicum , he studied philosophy in Rome from 1842 . After graduating as Dr. phil. He studied theology from 1845 and was ordained a priest in Rome in 1848 after completing his studies. Returning from Rome followed activities in pastoral care, further theological studies in Munich and assignments as a religion teacher in Passau. From 1855 he worked as a professor of morality and from 1858 as a professor of dogmatics at the Lyceum in Passau .

After Michael Bauer had briefly considered joining the Jesuit order, he took the position of chaplain in Reichenhall . Here he met Franz Leopold von Leonrod , who was appointed Bishop of Eichstätt in 1867 and Michael Bauer was appointed his secretary. However, in December of the following year, Michael Bauer decided to join the Benedictine monastery in Metten. After completing the novitiate, he received the religious name Thomas when he was professed in 1869. From 1871 to 1881 he was director of the episcopal boys' seminary in Metten. Subsequently, he was a teacher at the high school of the monastery and since 1884 a lecturer in the monastery’s house study (moral theology and Hebrew).

Works (selection)

• On the infallibility of papal decisions ex cathedra , program, Passau 1864.
• Basic instructions and financial support to Catholic and Acatholic institutes in New York , in: Studies and communications from the Benedictine order 4 (1883) 196-199.
• Dichotomy or Trichotomy , in: Studien und Mitteilungen aus dem Benediktinerorden 5 (1884) 382-410; 7 (1886) 333-357.390-404.
• Order privileges, in: Studies and communications from the Benedictine order 9 (1888) 22.189–213.

literature

• Ulrich Zangenfeind: Bauer, Michael, OSB. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 46 ( digitized version ).
• Michael Kaufmann, Mento mori. In memory of the deceased conventuals of the Benedictine abbey of Metten since the rebuilding in 1830 (history of the development of the Benedictine abbey of Metten, Part V), Metten 2008, 148f.
• August Lindner, The writers and the members of the Benedictine order in what is now the Kingdom of Bavaria, who deserve science and art From the year 1750 to the present , Vol. 2, Regensburg 1880.
• Wilhelm Fink, History of the Development of the Benedictine Abbey of Metten. Vol. 1: The profession book of the abbey (studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches. Supplementary booklet 1,1), Munich 1927, 83f.