Trudpert Neugart
Trudpert Neugart (1742–1825) was a Benedictine monk and historian from Baden. He came from a middle‑class family, studied at the Benedictine houses of St George and St Blasien, joined St Blasien in 1759, and was ordained in 1765. He taught biblical languages at Freiburg University in 1767, then returned to St Blasien in 1770 to study theology. In 1778 he published a treatise on penance.
At the urging of Abbot Gerbert, Neugart began a major research project on the Diocese of Constance. After Gerbert’s death in 1793, he declined the abbot’s title but became provost at Bad Krozingen to devote himself to history. He published key charters for the Diocese of Constance in Codex diplomaticus Alemanniae et Burgundiae transjuranae intra fines dioecesis Constantiensis, and he started the first volume of his history of the diocese, Episcopatus Constantiensis Alemannicus sub metropoli Moguntina, covering up to the year 1100.
When the abbey of St Blasien was secularized, Neugart helped relocate the monks to Austria. In 1807 he went to Vienna to arrange this, and the monks were granted the Abbey of St Paul near Klagenfurt in Carinthia, where he lived. He completed the second volume of his diocesan history, extending to 1308, and continued studying Carinthia and the Abbey of St Paul. He died in Klagenfurt on December 15, 1825.
After his death, his Historia monasterii Ord. S. Benedicti ad S. Paulum in valle inferioris Carinthiae Lavantina appeared in Klagenfurt in 1848 and 1854. Several other works remained in manuscript, and Libellus majores maternos Rudolphi I regis exhibens was edited by Weber in 1850.
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