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Franz Töpsl (18 November 1711 – 12 March 1796) was an Augustinian
Franz Töpsl (18 November 1711 – 12 March 1796) was an Augustinian Canon Regular
Canons regular are priests who live in community under a rule ( and canon in greek) and are generally organised into religious orders, differing from both secular canons and other forms of religious life, such as clerics regular, designated b ...
, provost of Polling Abbey
Polling Abbey (german: Kloster Polling) is a former monastery in Polling bei Weilheim, district of Weilheim-Schongau, in Upper Bavaria, Germany.
According to legend, the founder was Duke Tassilo III of Bavaria in about 750, but it seems more lik ...
, historian and librarian.
Life
Franz Joachim Joseph Martin Töpsl was born inMunich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Ha ...
, Bavaria on the night of 17–18 November 1711. In 1729 he entered the Polling Abbey of Augustinian Canons Regular
Canons regular are priests who live in community under a rule ( and canon in greek) and are generally organised into religious orders, differing from both secular canons and other forms of religious life, such as clerics regular, designated by ...
near Weilheim in Oberbayern
Weilheim in Oberbayern (English: 'Weilheim in Upper Bavaria') is a town in Germany, the capital of the district Weilheim-Schongau in the south of Bavaria. Weilheim has an old city-wall, historic houses and a museum.
Local history Up to the 1 ...
. On 16 April 1744 he was elected provost there. During an administration of almost 52 years he attempted to improve the abbey through upgrading the educational institute and systematically expanding the library.
The lawyer Johann Georg von Lori
Johann Georg von Lori (17 July 1723 – 23 March 1787) was a Bavarian high official, lawyer and historian. He was the driving force behind the foundation of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 1759.
Life
Early years
Johann Georg ...
founded the ''Bayerische Gelehrte Gesellschaft'' (Learned Society of Bavaria) on 12 October 1758.
This led to the foundation by Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria
Maximilian III Joseph, "the much beloved", (28 March 1727 – 30 December 1777) was a Prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire and Duke of Electorate of Bavaria, Bavaria from 1745 to 1777.
Biography
Born in Munich, Maximilian was the eldest so ...
of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities on 28 March 1759.
Count Sigmund von Haimhausen
Sigmund von Haimhausen (28 December 1708 – 16 January 1793) was a Bavarian aristocrat, mining operator, head of the Bavarian Mint and Mines commission, porcelain manufacturer and first president of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.
Early yea ...
was the first president.
Franz Töpsl became a member of the academy that year.
He later supplied scientific instruments to the academy.
From 1773 he was a Country Deputy (''Deputirter der Landschaft''), and from 1781 in charge of state education.
In his spare time he compiled ''Scriptores ordinis canonicorum regularium S. Augustini'', biographical and bibliographical works about writers belonging to his order.
He also wrote a historical outline of his abbey.
Franz Töpsl died suddenly on 12 March 1796 in Munich.
Portrait collection
The archive of theLudwig Maximilian University of Munich
The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: link=no, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Originally established as the University of ...
holds a collection of about 90 portraits of Augustinian canons, acquired after the secularization of the Bavarian monasteries in 1803. They are unframed, in poor condition, and have no identification of the subjects. It turns out that they originated when Franz Töpsl asked for portraits of writers of his order from across Europe. He had the originals repainted in standard format, then placed in frames that held the name of the canon. The portraits were hung in the abbey. By comparison to his unpublished ''Encyclopedia of the writers of the order of Augustinian Canons'' it has been possible to identify almost all the subjects.
References
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