Magnoald Ziegelbauer (1689 – 14 January 1750) was a

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monk and ecclesiastical historian.

Life

Ziegelbauer was born in 1689 in

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. He took vows at the Benedictine monastery of Zwiefalten on 21 November 1707, where he was ordained priest on 21 March 1713 and where he became professor of theology. Soon however some of the illiterate monks of Zwiefalten made plain their dislike of the learned and studious Ziegelbauer, who therefore obtained his abbot's permission to live at another monastery of the order. At first he went to

Reichenau Abbey Reichenau Abbey was a Benedictine monastery on Reichenau Island (known in Latin as Augia Dives) in southern Germany. It was founded in 724 by the itinerant Saint Pirmin, who is said to have fled Visigothic Spain ahead of the Moorish invaders, w ...

, where he taught theology. About 1730 the prior of this imperial monastery sent him to the court of

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on business relating to the monastery, after the successful accomplishment of which he taught moral theology at

Göttweig Abbey Göttweig Abbey () is a Benedictine monastery near Krems in Lower Austria. It was founded in 1083 by Altmann, Bishop of Passau. In the middle ages the abbey was a seat of learning with a library and a monastic school. The abbey went through ...

from 1732 to 1733, then returned to Vienna to devote himself to literary activity. In 1734, he became tutor of the young Barons von Latermann. From 1747 until his death he resided at

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as secretary of the first learned society in the Habsburg Monarchy, the

Societas eruditorum incognitorum in terris Austriacis (from Latin: "The Society of Anonymous Scholars in the Austrian Lands") was the first learned society in the lands under control of Habsburg monarchy, Austrian Habsburgs. It was established, formally, in 1746 at the University of Olomouc, unive ...

. He died in Olomouc on 14 January 1750.

Works

* His chief literary work is ''Historia rei literariae ordinis S. Benedicti'', which was published posthumously by his friend and collaborator Oliverius Legipontius (4 volumes, Augsburg 1754) and still remains a standard literary history of the

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. His other 19 printed works 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). * other historical and theological treatises of minor importance. Works unprinted (as of 1908) are: * ''Olomucium sacrum'', an ecclesiastical history of

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and its bishops. * ''Bibliotheca Bohemica'', a collection of writers on

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References

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'' article " Magnoald Ziegelbauer" by Michael Ott, a publication now in the

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