Biography
Weber was born at Lienz, Tyrol, quite talented, completing high-school coursework at Bozen (Bolzano) in four years. He studied philosophy at Innsbruck for two years. His father wished him to learn a trade as well as the ordinary work of a peasant, and thus Weber became a shoemaker. He then entered the Benedictine Abbey of Marienberg in Vinschgau, near Mals, changing his Christian name, Johann Chrysanth, to Beda. In the autumn of 1821 he began to study theology at the University of Innsbruck, and on the abolition of the theological faculty there, he continued his course at Brixen.
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