The “Luftg’Selcht -Pastor” by St. Thomas am Bladderstein is a mummy that attracts some speculation and also the interest of researchers. A few years ago, the remains called in the local church, which was called in the local church, were investigated in detail by experts in Munich. The team now reports on this in the specialized magazine “Frontiers in Medicine”. A key to sustainability is an enigmatic type of balm.
Stories and myths to supposed wonder healing surround the mummy in the upper Austrian district of perg. In 2017, the pathologist and mummy expert Andreas Nerlich of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the forensic doctor Oliver Peschel, who is also a remarkable officer for the Ice Sphere “Ötzi”, wanted to meet detailed research. While the update of the “Luftgschten Pastor” was renovated, the team, which colleagues from Austria also belong, was able to date the body with the help of radio cabbage method, based on isotopen analyzes, draw conclusions about the lifestyle and look at the mummy with the help of computer tomography (CT).
Analysis of living conditions with many insights
According to this, it can be assumed that, as suspected, the remains of the parish vicar Franz Xaver Sydler von Rosenegeg, who died in 1746 at the age of 37, is Nichlich. According to the analyzes, the orderman was well nourished during his life and it was a blowjove smoker. If the cause of death suspects, the experts fails that a blood fall falls before the man suffered from chronic pulmonary tuberculosis.
“Nationally interesting”
However, what happened after the death of the man who was probably known in the region was “scientifically interesting rural,” Nerlich said about the motivation for the now specialized publication. For the “excellent condition” of the body from the 18th century, a targeted sustainability is partially responsible, which has not been documented anywhere else. The orderman was demonstrably filled by the rectum filled with all kinds of materials that the hull fluid robbed.
“Inner Balamation” with plants, dust and zinc sulphate
The CT recordings showed, among other things, wooden villains, branches and other plants, as well as pieces of fabric that were introduced for this purpose. With this practice, a glass lead, as used for handicrafts and roses, apparently also came to the body. When it was discovered on an X -Ray in 2000, it led to speculation that the “pastor” may have been poisoned – what is not true, the experts said. Moreover, with this form of “inner balamation” – no matter how beautifully said – zinc sulphate was used: a chemical substance that robes body fluid. This connection was also available in the Mühlviertel, for example.
No written records
Business about the relatively low threshold conservation method, which the body does not require without opening the body, is that there are no written records that are known to the authors of the study. It may be that the knowledge of this practice was only passed on or verbally among corpses and possibly even quite widespread. Perhaps not much was talked about the approach for reasons of piety.
Rather preservation for a shorter period
However, it is clear that it did not try to retain a body for eternity, like the ancient Egyptians in mind, Nerlich said. It should be more to protect the deceased for a longer public update or a little transport from the start of the decay. In the case of Sydler you might be planning him to bring him to the crypt of the Waldhausen Abbey in Strudengau, where he was an Augustine orderman. The state of preservation of the “Luftg” Pastor “also has similarities with three parties that are there.
Don’t laugh in Erdgrab
It is certain that the body is never placed in the grave of an earth. Otherwise the 1.71 meters long and about ten kilos of mummy would not be preserved so well today. On the contrary, the so -called “Luftg” Pastor “must have been in a coffin for a long time under Little Air Supply. Perhaps it was just forgotten for a while in the church, probably probably.
Good prediction for “Luftg’Selchten Pastor”
Until now, the enigmatic balamination method has an effect: the hull is better preserved than the head and legs. If the listing situation remains up to date, the mummy expert Nerlich gives the “Luftg’elchten Pastor” good opportunities to survive mum for a long time. For archaeologists, the knowledge of balsel is quite interesting: if you find clues of dust and plant residues in old graves, you could also think in the direction that this has been used empty so far.
Source: Krone
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