Suitbert Bäumer

Suitbert Bäumer OSB ( born March 28, 1845 House of Leuchtenberg, Kaiserwerth the Lower Rhine as Johann Adolf Bäumer; † August 12, 1894, Freiburg, Breisgau) was a Benedictine and liturgists

Life

Bäumer graduated from high school in Dusseldorf, studied in Bonn and Tübingen, first law afterwards theology. In Tübingen, he became in 1864 a member of the Catholic Student Association AV Guestfalia. Then, his entry was made in the newly founded Benedictine monastery of St. Martin in Beuron in the Danube valley, which was one of only six members at that time. There he was clothed as a novice ' Suitbert ' on January 5, 1865. On 5 October 1866 he passed the vows and on 3 June 1869 was ordained priest. He worked as a librarian and as a lecturer in canon law and exegesis.

As a result of the Kulturkampf of the year 1875, the Beuronese monks were forced to emigrate and settle among others in the newly founded monastery of Maredsous in Belgium. Bäumer himself was also some time as sub-prior in the monastery at Erdington Birmingham England has and was then called back as sub-prior in the Maredsous Abbey. There he gave himself with great zeal to the liturgical and patristic studies back and was head of its liturgical printing of Desclée in Tournay.

His way very rich literary activity falling in the years 1886-1894, moving primarily to liturgical field, first in the history of the Breviary, where he dominated the entire literature in the most comprehensive way, as he German by Through research of and foreign libraries and their handwritten treasures had accumulated a great material. Below him appeared various journals, as well as editions of the Roman Breviary (1882 ) and the Benedictine Breviary ( Breviarium Monasticum, 1884), the Missal and the rituals and a new edition of the Vulgate (1885 ).

In 1890 he returned to Beuron in the position of Subpriors, but where he fell seriously ill in the spring of 1894 to an inherited heart condition through the continued over-exertion. For recovery, he was brought to the Sisters of Mercy to Heitersheim in Freiburg where he died on 12 August 1894. Buried in the monastery crypt Beuron.

Works (selection)

• " Breviarii Romani editio nova Tornacensis 1882 collata Vaticanae Papa Urbano VIII evulgatae 1632 " ( Tournay 1882)
• " The Feast of the Nativity of the Lord in the early Christian liturgy. Epiphany or Christmas? " ( Catholic, 1890, I, pp. 1-25)
• " Look at the history of the liturgy and its literature in the 19th century " (histor Yearbook 1890, pp. 44-76 );
• " The Stowe Missal anew examined " In: Journal of Catholic theology in 1892, pp. 446-490
• " The Micrologus a work 's Bernold of Constance " In: New Archives of the Society for elderly German History class, 1893, pp. 429-446;
• " The Cluniacenser in the 10th, 11th and 12th century " In: Historical and political leaves, Vol 103, 1889, pp. 337-352; 420-442
• "Meaning of the monastic reform of Cluny " In: Historical and political leaves, Vol 103, pp. 489-508; see also his article: " Hugh the Great, Abbot of Cluny ," In: Churches Dictionary, 2nd edition, VII, 372-382;
• " John Mabillon. A life and literary image of the XVII. and XVIII. Century " ( Augsburg, 1892);
• " Church language, or liturgical language " (VII, 638-668 );
• " Hymn " (VI. 519-552 );
• "Cross" (VII, 1054-1088 ).
• " The monastery storm in England under Henry VIII " ( Zeitschrift f cath. Theology, 1889, pp. 461-505 ).
• " The Apostles' Creed. Its history and its contents " (Mainz 1893).
• Gesch. of the Breviary. Vers a qu.mäßigen Darst the development of altchristl. and Roman Officiums to our day ( with short Lb ), 1895 (Fr. v. R. Biron, 2 vols, Paris 1905)
• The Cluny in the 10th, 11th, 12th century (Paris 1889)