Maurus Wolter

Maurus Wolter OSB ( born June 4, 1825 Bonn as Rudolf Wolter, † July 8, 1890 in Beuron ) was a German Benedictine. He was the first abbot of the Abbey Beuron and the founder and first director of the Beuronese Congregation.

Life

Rudolf Wolter, one of twelve children of the brewing family Lorenz Wolter, attended from 1836 to 1844, the Beethoven -Gymnasium Bonn and studied Catholic theology, philosophy and philology at the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. He was co-founder of the Conservative student association "Union" and participants in the Second Wartburg Festival in 1848 and was in contact with the controversial Austrian philosopher and theologian Anton Günther ( " Güntherianer "). In 1849, he was with a work " De spatio et tempore - About Space and Time" Dr. phil. doctorate.

In 1850 he entered the seminary in Cologne. On 3 September 1850 he received the Cologne Cathedral ordained priest by the Bishop of Cologne Johann Anton Friedrich Baudri.

Wolter has worked as a pastor in Jülich and at the same time headmaster of the General Higher city school. In 1854 he became head of the school of the cathedral chapter in Aachen.

In 1856 he entered the Benedictine Abbey of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome, which Reformabt Michael Papa led Humanities, and received the religious name " Maurus ". In 1862 he graduated from the French Benedictine Abbey of Solesmes, a voluntary second novitiate. With his brother Placidus ( Ernst), also a Benedictine monk, he founded the Benedictine priory in 1863 Beuron. The family Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen had put the Wolter brothers, this former monastery of the Augustinian Canons in the Danube valley available. In 1863, Father Maurus there first Prior, 1868 first abbot of the Benedictine abbot of Beuron and 1884 Beuronese Benedictine Congregation.

Wolter has published numerous scientific papers.

Works

  • Elementa. The Basics of Benedictine monasticism, Beuron 1955 [ dt Version of " Praecipua Ordinis monastici Elementa " ]
  • Praecipua Ordinis monastici Elementa, Bruges 1880 [ basic work for monastic life, lat ]
  • Psallite sapienter, Freiburg 1871-1890, 3rd ed 1904-1907 [ commentary on the Psalms, German ]
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