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Suitbert Bäumer (28 March 1845 – 12 August 1894) was aBenedictinemonk and historian of theBreviary and apatrologist of the nineteenth century.
He was born atHaus Leuchtenberg,Kaiserswerth, in theLower Rhine region of Germany. He studied at the universities ofBonn andTübingen; in 1865 he entered theBenedictineBeuron Archabbey, then newly founded, and was ordained priest in 1869.
He spent the years 1875–90 atMaredsous Abbey inBelgium and atErdington in England; in the latter year he returned to Beuron. Bäumer was long the critical adviser of the printing house ofDesclée, Lefebvre and associates atTournai, for their editions of theMissal,Breviary, Ritual,Pontifical, and other liturgical works.
He contributed a number of essays to reviews, e.g. on theStowe Missal (the oldest liturgical record of theIrish Church) in theZeitschrift für katholische Theologie (1892), on the author of the "Micrologus" (an important medieval liturgical treatise) in "Neues Archiv" (1893), on the "Sacramentarium Gelasianum" in the "Historisches Jahrbuch" (1893).
He also wrote a life ofMabillon (1892) and a treatise on the history and content of theApostles' Creed (1893).
In his history of theRoman Breviary,Geschichte des Breviers: Versuch einer quellenmässigen Darstellung der Entwicklung des altkirchlichen u. des römischen Officiums bis auf unsere Tage (Freiburg i. Breisgau, Herder: 1895; French tr., R. Biron, Paris: 1905) he condensed the labours of several generations of students of the Breviary and critical results of the modern school of historical liturgists.
He died atFreiburg on 12 August 1894.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Shahan, Thomas Joseph (1907). "Suitbert Bæumer". In Herbermann, Charles (ed.).Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. New York: Robert Appleton Company.