Chrysostomus Hanthaler

Chrysostom Hanthaler ( born January 14, 1690 in Ried im Traunkreis, Upper Austria, † September 2, 1754 in Lilienfeld, Lower Austria ) was an Austrian Cistercian monk, historian and numismatist.

John Adam Hanthaler came as unmarried child, the son of a peasant, was born. According to law, philosophy and theology studies in Salzburg in 1716, he entered into the Cistercian Abbey of Lilienfeld and took the religious name of Chrysostom. On 1 May 1718, he was ordained a priest and soon became novice master and sub-prior. He earned a pin Librarian by Cataloging work great merit. In 1733 he was for some years after Marienberg in Burgenland, belonged to Hungary at the time, offset, 1737 came back to Lilienfeld and served his Abbot Chrysostom Wieser as Provincial Secretary. Throughout his religious life he conducted research on the history Lilienfelder pin; 22 manuscript volumes in the monastery archives today give testimony, and numerous publications. His main work, the Fasti Campililienses, radically with state and nobility history is closely connected history of the monastery of Lilienfeld. Hanthaler is now regarded as a highly talented representatives of the ecclesiastical foresight, but the value of his work is materially affected by the takeover and citation invented by himself to Austrian sources and history of the monastery in the Babenberg. In 1742, he had fake annals of a monk Ortilo, which refers to a lost writing a chaplain to the Marquis Adalbert, Alold of Poechlarn, appoints edited. Already doubted by contemporaries, the sensational source finds were found to be forgeries in the 19th century, however, the possibility was left open that Hanthaler for individual information still had a real, since lost Lilienfelder source.

Works

• Fasti Campililienses, 2 vols, 1747-54 Linz
• Fastorum Campililiensum Chr H. continuatio see recensus Genealogico - diplomaticus Archivi Campililiensis, ed Ladislaus Pyrker, Vienna 1818/20
• Notulae anecdotae e Chron. illustris stirpis Babenbergicae in Osterrichia domin antis, quam vir Reverend Aloldus de Peklarn, Serenissimi quondam Austriae marchionis adalberti from anno 1034 usque ad annum 1056 capellanus conscripsit, a Fratre Ortilone uno e primis monachis Campililiensibus sub finem seculi XII, excerptae, Krems 1742