Tiburtius Hümpfner

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Tiburtius Hümpfner (born February 21, 1885 in Katymár , Bács-Kiskun county , † April 12, 1966 in Felsőörs , Veszprém county ) was a Hungarian Cistercian monk and religious historian.

Life

Hümpfner, one of nine siblings, came from the German-speaking minority in the south of Hungary . As a student he was in the same class as the famous writer Dezső Kosztolányi . He attended high school in Kalocsa (Kollotschau) and in 1901 entered the Cistercian monastery in Baja (Franconian town) as a novice in the Zirc monastery . From 1904 he studied theology at the Collegium Pazmanianum (founded by Péter Pázmány ) in Vienna, from 1906 at the University of Innsbruck , where he was a member of the Collegium Canisianum until 1909 . He was ordained a priest in 1908 and received his doctorate in 1911. Under Abbot Békefi Remig (1858–1924, abbot from 1911) he was a novice master in Zirc, then he taught at the grammar schools and the university in Budapest run by his order . He became secretary of Abbot Kassian Haid in the Territorial Abbey of Wettingen-Mehrerau , who served as Abbot General of the order from 1920 to 1927 from Mehrerau. From 1927 to 1936, Hümpfner was General Secretary of the Order in Rome under Abbot General Franziskus Janssens . At the General Chapter of the Cistercian Order in Rome in 1933, he was one of the chapter secretaries ( notarii capituli ) together with Matthäus Quatember , Aelred Pexa and Karl Kreh . After Abbot General Janssens was dismissed for mismanagement, Hümpfner returned to Hungary in 1937. His life path led him through many stations, including a time around 1930 as a pastor of the indigenous people in Montreal , where he was appointed honorary Indian chief and wrote a pamphlet about the now canonized Kateri Tekakwitha .

In 1932, at the request of Alexis Presse, Hümpfner published the so-called Summa Cartae Caritatis (SCC), which had been found by Auguste Trilhe , who had died in 1930 , and was the forerunner of the only known tradition of the Carta Caritatis . He was a corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres de Dijon (1933).

Tiburtius Hümpfner must not be confused with the Augustinian and author Winfried Hümpfner (1889–1962).

Publications

  • as Ed .: The previously missing part of the Exordium Magnum SOC In: Cistercienser Chronik , Volume 20, 1908.
  • Cistercian journey through Switzerland. In: Cistercienser Chronik , Volume 27, 1915, pp. 113-122.
  • The Bible of St. Stephan Harding. In: Cistercienser Chronik , Volume 29, 1917, pp. 73-81.
  • Iconography of St. Bernhard of Clairvaux. On behalf of His Grace the Most Revered Dr. Cassian Haid, Abbot General of the Cistercian Order, Abbot of Wettingen Mehrerau, collected and published. Filser, Augsburg 1927.
  • Les fils de S. Bernard en Hongrie , Elet, Budapest 1927 (“The Sons of St. Bernard in Hungary.” Lecture at the Congrès de l'Association Bourguignonne des Sociétés Savantes, Dijon, June 1927).
  • as publisher: Exordium Cistercii dum summa Cartae caritatis et fundatio primarum quattuor filiarum Cistercii. Kapisztran Nyomda Vác 1932 (discovered by Auguste Trilhe).
  • Archivum et bibliotheca Cistercii et quatuor primarum filiarum Eius, Rome 1933. In: Analecta Cisterciensia 2, 1946, pp. 119-145.

literature

  • Correspondence sheet of Canisianum 101.1 / 2, 1966/1967, p. 55 (with picture).
  • Beáta Vida: Fundačný proces rehole cistercitov v Uhorsku (“ History of the founding of the Cistercian order in Hungary”). In: Kultúrne Dejiny , Volume 1, 2011, pp. 7–32 (Slovak).
  • Endre Tilhof: Ajkai életrajzi lexicon. Ajka 2003.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Presence in Montreal by Jacques Gagnier, p. 5.
personal data
SURNAME Hümpfner, Tiburtius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hümpfner, Tibor Antal; Hümpfner, Tiburce
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian Cistercian monk and order historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Katymár , Bács-Kiskun county
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1966
Place of death Felsőörs , Veszprém county