Valentin Schmidt (Cistercian)

Valentin Schmidt , OCist (also Franz Valentin Schmidt ; Czech František Valentin Schmidt ; born January 5, 1863 in Rosenthal ; † March 28, 1927 in Hohenfurt ) was a Cistercian of Hohenfurt Abbey , high school teacher, local researcher , diplomat and archivist .

Life

Valentin Schmidt attended elementary school in his hometown and then the grammar school in Krumau , where he passed the final exam with distinction in 1883. In the same year he entered the Cistercian monastery Hohenfurt as a novice . In 1887 he was ordained a priest and at the same time took his religious vows , taking the religious name Valentin for his first name Franz . Then he was chaplain in Unterhaid and then in Höritz , where he revised the text of the Höritz Passion Play . In 1889 he enrolled at the Karl Ferdinand University in Prague for the subjects of history, geography and German. In 1893 he passed the teaching examination, a year later he received his doctorate in philosophy. From 1895 to 1899 he was the director of the Cistercian high school in Mehrerau near Bregenz , from 1899 to 1901 he taught at the German secondary school in Budweis and then for half a year at the Stiftsgymnasium Melk . As the successor to the Cistercian Willibald Ladenbauer, who was appointed Prior of Hohenfurt, he taught history at the German grammar school in Budweis from 1902 to 1921.

From the school year 1921/22 Schmidt headed the newly established collegiate high school in Hohenfurt. After the death of Prior Willibald Ladenbauer he was appointed monastery archivist in 1926, but died a year later.

Valentin Schmidt wrote numerous works on the history and settlement of South Bohemia and the Bohemian Forest and published several documents. He also wrote numerous articles that appeared in the communications of the Association for the History of Germans in Bohemia .

Works (selection)

• The land register of the Rosenberg rule from 1598 . Prague 1896
• The land register of the Hohenfurth monastery from 1524
• Brewing operations and breweries in South Bohemia (1900)
• Budweis and the Wittigonen until the beginning of the Hussite Wars . Budweis 1900
• Trade routes and centers in South Bohemia (1901)
• On the history of the Counter Reformation in South Bohemia (1902)
• Cultural Relations between South Bohemia and Passau (1907)
• Church conditions in South Bohemia from the end of the Hussite War until the banishment of King George of Podebrady. (1436–1466) , Budweis (1909)
• On the history of the Krumlov mining industry . Budweis (1915)
• Together with Alois Picha: Document book of the city of Krummau in Bohemia . Prague, 1st volume (1908), 2nd volume (1910)

literature

• Columban Spahr:  P. Valentin (Franz) Schmidt, OCist. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 10, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7001-2186-5 , p. 298.

Web links

• Entry in the Cistercian dictionary
• Pedigree (accessed December 19, 2014)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Order name Valentin