Placidus Braun

Placidus Brown ( born February 11, 1756 in Peiting, † October 23, 1829 in Augsburg) was a priest of the Benedictine order and church historian.

Life

Brown was the son of a baker. He attended the convent school of St. Mang, which sparked his interest in music in Fussen. The age of twelve he decided to go as a choirboy in the Benedictine Abbey of St. Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg. Here he continued his education at the Jesuit High School St. Salvator continued for six years. In 1775 he was admitted to the monastery of the Benedictines. His priesthood is handed down from 1779. The Benedictines of the Reich pin commissioned him with the care of their library (from 1785 responsible librarian ) and the archive.

In 1796 his concern for the finances of the monastery was entrusted as Großcellerar. He had to take care of quartering during the Napoleonic Wars French troops here also. Placidus Brown bristled sustained against the secularization of the monastery. In 1803 he was after the evacuation of the monastery for secular purposes librarian and archivist at the Diocesan in Augsburg. He brought books here from the monastery of St. Ulrich and Afra and from the monastery of St. Mang in Füssen one who had given him the last abbot there Aemilian Hafner. Brown came up with other monks under near the monastery.

The motive to preserve the bishops and the rights of the Church from harm, let him be a historian. On August 3, 1808 he was appointed the Bavarian Academy of Sciences as a member of what he had sought. He had now regained access to the collected historical documents from the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the congregation.

Until his death, Brown is the daily morning Mass at the Basilica of St. Ulrich and Afra have visited.

Works

On Brown a printed list of all the incunabula of the Imperial Abbey returns. It was one of the first of its kind followed a six volumes printed comprehensive inventory of all manuscripts. Descriptions of the life of the male diocese cartridge Ulrich of Augsburg and Simpert were his next works. From the 1804 the book with the unwieldy title " story of the conversion, suffering, and invention of St. Märtyrinn Afra, then from the holiness and glory of the fates of their burial place. " Brown also wrote a history of the Augsburg Kollegiatstifte St. Moritz, St. George and St. Gertrude.

After the dissolution of the monastery arose

  • 1813-1815 of the four-volume "History of the Bishops of Augsburg "
  • 1817 "History of the Church and the pencil of the Holy Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg "
  • 1822 "History of the college of the Jesuits in Augsburg "
  • 1823 two-volume " Historical and topographical description of the diocese of Augsburg "
  • 1825 a " life stories of saints and blessed the city and the diocese of Augsburg "

And in the series " Monumenta Boica " he edited the

  • Documents of high pin Augsburg ( 5 volumes) and
  • Documents of the Empire Foundation of St. Ulrich and Afra (2 volumes).

The last work he published in 1829 " The Cathedral in Augsburg and the higher and lower clergy of the same ".

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