BOPPERT, KONRAD. - Ascetical writer, b. at Constance on 10 February 1750, d. at St. Paul in Carinthia on 31 July 1811. A Benedictine monk at St. Blasien in the Black Forest, he took his vows in 1773 and was ordained a priest in 1775. He held various offices in the monastery, where he distinguished himself by pronounced musical gifts; he administered the parish of Ibach from 1799 to 1803 and, after the suppression of St. Blasien, retired to St. Paul in Carinthia.

His name is linked to a work that cost him 18 years of assiduous labor: Scutura fidei ad vnsu quotidianos sacerdotum (5 vols., St. Blasien 1806); it was reprinted in 12 vols. by Herder at Freiburg im Breisgau (1853-55) and by Dura at Naples (1856), then translated into French and German. It is a breviarum eucharisticum, which offers daily meditations and prayers for before and after Mass, drawn in large part from the Fathers, the councils, and the scholastic theologians (ca. 2,000 citations). The vast compilation, despite its historical-critical shortcomings, permeated as it is with sincere piety, constitutes solid nourishment still useful today for priestly souls.

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BIBL.: Anon., Scriptores O. S. B., qui 1750-80 fuerunt in Imperio Austriaca-Hungarico. Vienna 1881, pp. 26-27; P. Volk, s. v. in DSp. I, coll. 1870-71; id., s. v. in DHG, IX, col. 1169.

Antonio Piolanti

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Boppert, Konrad

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