Dr. Vinzenz Hartl CanReg

Vinzenz Hartl graduated from grammar school in Linz and entered the canons' monastery of St. Florian after completing his A-levels. After the novitiate, he studied at the monastery's own philosophical-theological house school and was ordained a priest in 1898. He then went on to study for a doctorate at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Innsbruck (Dr. theol. 1902). In 1906, he became an honorary member of the student fraternity Austria Innsbruck. He then became a professor at the house school for New Testament biblical studies and taught this subject until 1938.

Due to the illness of the provost, Vinzenz Hartl was appointed administrator of the monastery at the beginning of 1920 and then elected provost of the monastery in 1920. As early as 1925, he became Convisitator of the Congregation of Austrian Canons Regular and, after the death of the Provost of Klosterneuburg, Provost Joseph Eduard Kluger, Abbot General of this Congregation.