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Xystus Schier, as his first biographer, his fellow monk Martin Rosnack states, „Natus est... Pruggae ad Leytham in Austria anno MDCCXXVII, XIX Julii."" He was born on the left bank of the river Lajta (not in Királyhida, but in Lajtabruck — Bruck an der Leitha). He studied in Pozsony between 1738 and 1743, so he could have been present at the coronation of Maria Theresa." Between 1745 and 1750 he was a student at the Augustinian monastery in Vienna, then returned home for five years to work in the Augustinian monastery in Bruck an der Leitha. He was then invited by the Order to become a librarian at the Convent of St. Roch in Vienna. His work as a historian, his engagement with the novices, and the organisation of literary and academic life (Sodalitas Literaria Augustiniana)*” earned him great prestige. During his lifetime and posthumously, 20 of his books were published in the 18th century.*””? He worked in a variety of genres, from the history of printing in Vienna to occasional poetry. Most of all, he investigated the history of his own order, and this included the history of the orders in the Hungarian Kingdom. He was particularly interested in the Arpad Era, as he called it: the age of kings “of the first dynasty”. He wrote about the queens,*”* but also about the successor of Archbishop Lodomer of Esztergom of the Monoszlö family, Gergely Bicskei," the fiancée of King Béla III and his wives," and Buda of the Arpad Era.‘*! The other period that particularly interested him was the era of Matthias Hunyadi. He published a book on the University of Pozsony,**’ but some documentation of the Sodalitas Danubiana has also survived. In his collection of manuscript materials, there is a lot on Hungarian cultural history, but I do not want to list them here." Xystus Schier’s History of the Corvina, his dissertatio, was published in 1766. In the preceding decades, the relationship between the Hungarian orders and the Habsburg imperial court had changed (after Vitam et sanguinem!). The court did not abandon its intention to change the state administration system in the Hun#74 ScHIER-Rosnack 1776, a2recto. #5 Tue life of Schier is also commemorated in the bio-bibliographies of the orders of the 18th and 19th centuries. For more modern literature, see MıxscH 1966, 356-366., MıxscH 1969.; RENNHOFER 1970, 317-324. He studied at the Jesuit Gymnasium in Pozsony (not mentioned in his biography, and not until 1745, according to the literature): Album studiosae juventutis Gymnasii Posoniensis, 1725-1765 (Esztergom, Föszekesegyhäzi Könyvtär, Coll. Batthyäny Cat. IX. Lit. Tit. 1. e. fol. 61r, 64r, 67r, 69v, 72v, 75v. — Thanks to Istvän Fazekas for the data, in 1738 he is parvista maior, and then he moves upwards year by year, there is no grade repetition, he finishes as rhetoricus in 1743. 476 SZELESTEI NaGy 1989, 100. #7 Scuter-Rosnack 1776, 11-15.; Nova Bibl. Eccl. Friburgensis, 5(1780), 82-87.; KiüpreL 1809, 7-18. Mixscu 1969, 74-134; Rennnorer 1970, 319-324.; ExLer-Monok-ÂBRAHÂM (ford), kiad., Xystus Schier..., 2019. ScHIER-Rosnack 1776. I note that the author of the latest monograph on the subject does not refer to Schier’s work (ZsoLvos A. 2019.) ScHIER 1768. SCHIER 1770. ScHIER 1774. ScHIER 1774a. (Those involved with the University of Pozsony’s history are not familiar with (or refer to) Schier’s work, see e.g.: Ktaniczay T. 1990.; Kraniczay T. 1993.; Kıanıczay T. 2010. Mixscu 1969, 90-137, where Miksch gives the current provenance of the manuscripts. S 478 47 So 48 S 48 a 48. S 483 102
