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Beda Weber
Johann Chrysanth "Beda" Weber (26 October 1798 – 28 February 1859) was a German Benedictine professor, author, and member of the Frankfurt Parliament. Biography Weber was born at Lienz, Tyrol, quite talented, completing high-school coursework at Bozen (Bolzano) in four years. He studied philosophy at Innsbruck for two years. His father wished him to learn a trade as well as the ordinary work of a peasant, and thus Weber became a shoemaker. He then entered the Benedictine Abbey of Marienberg in Vinschgau, near Mals, changing his Christian name, Johann Chrysanth, to Beda. In the autumn of 1821 he began to study theology at the University of Innsbruck, and on the abolition of the theological faculty there, he continued his course at Brixen. Ministry Weber was ordained in 1824, and went for a short time to the episcopal seminary at Trento to prepare himself for pastoral work; in 1825 he returned to his monastery. After a short time spent in the pastorate, he began to teach at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Bede ( ; ang, Bǣda , ; 672/326 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, The Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable ( la, Beda Venerabilis), was an English monk at the monastery of St Peter and its companion monastery of St Paul in the Kingdom of Northumbria of the Angles (contemporarily Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey in Tyne and Wear, England). Born on lands belonging to the twin monastery of Monkwearmouth–Jarrow in present-day Tyne and Wear, Bede was sent to Monkwearmouth at the age of seven and later joined Abbot Ceolfrith at Jarrow. Both of them survived a plague that struck in 686 and killed a majority of the population there. While Bede spent most of his life in the monastery, he travelled to several abbeys and monasteries across the British Isles, even visiting the archbishop of York and King Ceolwulf of Northumbria. He was an author, teacher (Alcuin was a student of one of his pupils), and scholar, and his most famous work, ''Ecclesiastical History of the English People' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
