Utto Lang
Utto Lang OSB (born February 15, 1806 in Kasten near Osterhofen as Georg Lang ; † February 25, 1884 in Metten ) was abbot of the Bavarian Benedictine monastery Metten and first president of the re-established Bavarian Benedictine Congregation .
biography
After studying philosophy and theology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and at the Lyceum in Regensburg, Georg Lang was ordained a priest in 1830 by Auxiliary Bishop Georg Michael Wittmann in Regensburg. He then worked as a chaplain in Rottenburg an der Laaber and Taufkirchen before joining the Benedictine abbey of Metten in 1837. Following his profession in 1838, in which he received the religious name Utto after the abbot of the monastery , he worked at the monastery grammar school as choir director and director of the monastery seminary (boarding school). When in 1844 a seminar for the preparation of boys for theology studies and the priesthood was set up at the monastery high school on behalf of the bishop of Regensburg, Utto Lang was entrusted with its management.
When Abbot Gregor Scherr was appointed Archbishop of Munich and Freising in 1858, the monks of the Metten Monastery chose Utto Lang as the new abbot. In 1858 he was elected the first abbot president of the re-established Bavarian Benedictine Congregation; he held this office until 1870. In the function of Abbot Preses of the Bavarian Benedictine Congregation, he took part in the First Vatican Council in 1869/70 . The diaries of Utto Lang, in which he reports on this time, give important insights into what happened at the council. Excerpts from the diary of Abbot Utto Lang were added by Hugo Lang , monk of the Abbey of St. Boniface , to the translation of the history of the First Vatican Council by the English Benedictine abbot Cuthbert Butler .
literature
- Paul Mai: The diary of the Metten abbot Utto Lang on the First Vatican Council , in: Studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches 84 (1973), pp. 287–382.
- Cuthbert Butler : The Vatican Council: its history described from the inside in Bishop Ullathorne's letters , translated and expanded by Hugo Lang, Munich 1933 (2nd edition 1961).
- 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 5), Metten 2008, p. 114f.
- Wilhelm Fink : History of the development of the Benedictine abbey Metten. Part 1: The professorship book of the abbey (studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches, supplement 1/1), Munich 1926, p. 68.
Web links
- Portrait painting by Abbot Utto Lang on the homepage of Metten Monastery
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Gregor Scherr |
Abbot of Metten Monastery 1856–1884 |
Benedict III Braunmüller |
| - |
Abbot praeses of the Bavarian Benedictine Congregation 1858–1870 |
Bonifaz Haneberg |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lang, Utto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lang, Georg (baptismal name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German clergyman, Abbot of the Metten Monastery, President of the Bavarian Benedictine Congregation |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 15, 1806 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Box near Osterhofen |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 25, 1884 |
| Place of death | Metten |