Victor Keller

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Georg Victor Keller (born May 14, 1760 in Ewattingen ; † December 7, 1827 in Pfaffenweiler ) was a Benedictine , priest and university professor at the St. Blasien monastery in the Black Forest .

Life

His father was the master blacksmith Benedict Keller von Ewattingen. After attending the monastery school in Villingen, he attended grammar school in Freiburg for two years. Among other things, he was a student of Johann Kaspar Ruef and Joseph Umstatt . He studied philosophy and theology in Vienna and also attended the theater and the opera diligently. In 1778, after a visit to St. Blasien , he entered the monastery in the same year, which was under the direction of Martin Gerbert . As a novice he taught philosophy . At the age of 25 he took the vow and was appointed professor of mathematics, diplomatics and numismatics .

After being ordained a priest in Constance in 1785, he was given the chair of church history and church law at the college of the monastery . In order to pursue his studies undisturbed, he allowed himself to be largely exempted from priestly duties and by unconventional means he circumvented them as far as possible in order to research the 36,000 volumes in the monastery library. For the Germania Sacra he collected the facts about the dioceses of Verden , Eichstätt and Augsburg . The volume for the Diocese of Verden could no longer appear due to the circumstances of the time. After the surprising death of his successor, Mauritius Ribbele , he wrote the funeral speech for him.

In addition to Berthold Rottler , he was proposed for the subsequent election of abbot . Rottler loaned him the Gurtweil provost and later the Schluchsee parish, where he worked for seven years. After that he was in the Wislikofen provost and after the abolition of St. Blasiens he became a pastor in Aarau on February 14, 1806 , where he was very popular and made friends with Ignaz Paul Vitalis Troxler , Heinrich Zschokke , Heinrich Sauerländer , Johannes Herzog , Friedrich Feer ( the father of Carl Feer-Herzog ) and Johann Karl Fetzer . In 1812 the Bishop of Constance , Karl Theodor von Dalberg , appointed him Episcopal Commissioner. He was a supporter of Ignaz Heinrich von Wessenberg and, like him, advocated progress and reforms. In 1814 he tried to get the parish of Zurzach , which he also received and was Dean of the St. Verenastift until the separation of Switzerland from the Diocese of Constance in May 1816 .

On November 26, 1816, he exchanged parish positions with the pastor of Grafenhausen , who came from Klingnau. The lack of exchange with scholars and the lack of libraries prompted him on November 28, 1820, after four years, to move to the vacant parish in Pfaffenweiler. Theology students from Freiburg visited him here and he would have liked to become a teacher in dogmatics again. After a severe stroke in 1823 from which he did not fully recover, he died of lung addiction on December 7, 1827 .

Fonts

Leaves of edification and reflection, Freiburg im Breisgau 1833 (title page)
  • Ideal for all estates or ethics in pictures , Aarau, 1818
  • Catholicon. There is one thing for everyone under every form , Aarau, 1824
  • Essays, In: Hours of Prayer , Aarau, 1809 to 1816
  • Protective writing for the diocese administrator of Wessenberg
  • Estate (2 volumes, unfinished), J. Barbisch (Ed.), Freiburg 1830
  • Leaves of edification and reflection , four volumes, Freiburg, 1832 (2nd edition 1854)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joseph Bader, The former monastery of Sanct Blasien on the Black Forest and its academy of scholars. P. 127
personal data
SURNAME Keller, Victor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Viktor (spelling); Keller, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Benedictine
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1760
PLACE OF BIRTH Ewattingen
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 1827
Place of death Pfaffenweiler