Ziegelbauer, Magnoald
Historian, born at Ellwangen, Swabia, 1689; died at Olmütz, 14 January, 1750. He took vows at the Abbey of Zwiefalten 21 November, 1707, was ordained priest, 21 March, 1713, and became professor of theology at his monastery. Soon, however, some of the illiterate monks of Zwiefalten manifested their aversion to the learned and studious Ziegelbauer, who obtained his abbot’s permission to reside at another monastery of his order. At first he went to Reichenau, where he taught theology. About 1730 the prior of this imperial monastery sent him to the court of Vienna on business pertaining to the monastery, after the successful accomplishment of which he taught moral theology at Göttweig from 1732-33, then returned to Vienna to devote himself to literary labours. In 1734 he became tutor of the young Barons von Latermann. From 1747 he resided at Olmütz as secretary of the learned club “Societas incognitorum”. His chief literary production is “Historia rei literariae ordinis S. Benedicti”, which was published posthumously by his friend and collaborator Oliverius Legipontius (4 vols., Augsburg, 1754) and still remains the standard literary history of the Benedictine Order. His other 19 printed works (see list in Lindner, loc. cit. below) include “Mancipatus illibatae virginis deciparae” (Constance, 1726); “Lebengeschichte des ertz-martyrers Stephani” (Vienna, 1736; “Epitome historica regii, liberii et exempti in regno Bohemiae antiquissimi monasterii Brevnoviensis” (Cologne, 1740); and other historical and theological treatises of minor importance. Among his unprinted works are “Olomucium sacrum”, an ecclesiastical history of Moravia and its bishops, and “Bibliotheca Bohemica”, a collection of writers on Bohemia.
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LEGIPONTUS, Elogiuim historicum, prefixed to vol. I. of Hist. rei literariae O.S.B., and reproduced by MONSE, Infulae doctae Morativae (Brunn, 1779), 151-92; LINDNER in Studien und mitteilungen aus dem Ben. Un Cist. Orden, IV (Wurzburg, 1883), I, 70-78; BERLIERE in Revue Benedictine, XV (Maredsous, 1898).
MICHAEL OTT Transcribed by Thomas M. Barrett Dedicated to the memory of Father Magnoald Ziegelbauer
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Ziegelbauer, Magnoald
a Roman Catholic theologian of Germany, was born in 1696 at Elwangen, Suabia. In 1707 he entered the brotherhood of the Benedictine friars, and taught philosophy and theology at the convent of Zwiefalten and that of Reichenau. After having resided for a time near the learned, priest Bessel of Gottenich, who had been appointed to instruct the young friars, he passed many years at Vienna, and at Braunau and Prague, in Bohemia, and assisted in reorganizing the academic college at the last-named place. In 1747 he went to occupy the position of secretary of the Academy of the Unknown at Olmtz. Here he prepared a book in which he wished to call the attention of the pope to numerous abuses introduced among the clergy of these countries. Those interested in suppressing the publication of this work administered to him a poison powder by a physician. He died June 14, 1750, at Olmiutz. We have from Ziegeibauer, Historische Nachricht von der S. Georgenfahne (Vienna, 1735): Acta S. Stephani Protomaityris (ibid. 1736), in German: Novus Rei Litterarice Ord. S. Benedicti Conspectus (Ratisbon, 1739), a prospectus of a large and excellent collection which was published by Legipont after his death under the title Historia Rei Litter. Ord. S. Benedicti (Augsburg, 1754): Elpitome Historica Monasterii Brennoniensis prope Pragam (Cologne, 1740): Sponsalia Virginis (Konigshofen, 1740): Historia Didactica de Crucis Cultu in Od. S. Benedicti (Vienna, 1746): Centifolium Camaldulense (ibid. 1750), which is a prospectus of the historical library of the Camaldules. Ziegelbauer left in manuscript several works, such as Olomucium Sacrum and Bibliotheca Bohemica. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Gneral, s.v.