Adam Adami

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Adam Adami as administrator of the Hildesheim Monastery ; Portrait in the Hildesheim Cathedral Library

Adam Adami OSB (* 1610 in Mülheim near Cologne ; † February 19, 1663 in Hildesheim ) was prior of St. Jakob near Mainz, prior of Murrhardt , titular bishop of Hierapolis and auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Hildesheim .

Life

Adami was of simple descent and probably studied in Cologne . At the age of 19 he entered the Benedictine order at Brauweiler Abbey , where he studied theology and law. 1633 he received the ordination and the following year he was appointed rector of the former Benedictine seminary in Cologne, where he became a doctor of theology doctorate . In 1637 he became prior of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Jakob on the Jakobsberg in Mainz, in 1639 prior of the restituted Württemberg Abbey of Murrhardt and from 1647 to 1650 abbot of Huysburg .

Adam Adami (bottom left) with the most important participants in the peace treaty of 1648 (postage stamp of the Deutsche Post from 1998)
Adam Adami.

Adam Adami earned a reputation for being a skilled diplomat. Therefore, from 1645 to 1648 he represented the Prince Abbot von Corvey and the Swabian imperial prelates in the negotiations for the Peace of Westphalia in Munster . Together with Franz Wilhelm von Wartenberg and Johann von Leuchselring, he belonged to the group of Catholic maximalists against Trauttmansdorff and the Kaiser. Adami's commitment to the Swabian monasteries and their preservation for the Catholic Church was not crowned with success, as 17 Swabian monasteries and five monasteries were added to the Duke of Württemberg.

Adam Adami

From 1650 to 1651 Adami stayed in Rome as envoy of Cologne's Archbishop Maximilian Heinrich von Bayern . In 1652 he became its auxiliary bishop in Hildesheim. The ordination as titular bishop of Hierapolis in Isauria was donated to him on March 23, 1653 by the Paderborn auxiliary bishop Bernhard Frick . As auxiliary bishop in Hildesheim, he published his notes on the peace negotiations in Münster, which appeared in 1698 under the title Arcana pacis Westphalicae . These records are an important historical source for the Peace of Westphalia.

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Adami Adami Episcopi Hierapolitani ... Relatio Historica De Pacificatione Osnabrvgo-Monasteriensi: Ex Avtographo Avctoris Restitvta Atqve Actorvm Pacis Vestphalicae Testimoniis Avcta Et Corroborata Accvrante Joanne Godofredo de Mieren Regiae Maj. Britann. Et Elect. Brvnsv. Lvneb. A Consiliis Avlicis Et Archivi Praeposito . Schulz, Tuerpe, Lipsiae 1737 digitized

literature

  • Fritz Dickmann : The Peace of Westphalia. 2nd edition, Münster 1965.
  • Friedrich Israel: Adam Adami and his Arcana pacis Westphalicae. Berlin 1909 (Historical Studies 69).
  • Andreas Neuburger: Confessional conflict and end of war in the Swabian Empire. Württemberg and the Catholic imperial estates in the south-west from the Peace of Prague to the Peace of Westphalia (1635–1651). Stuttgart 2011.
  • Paulus Volk: The peace commissioner Adam Adami from Mülheim during the negotiations in Münster and Osnabrück (1645–1648). From unknown letters. In: Annals of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine 142/143 (1943), pp. 84ff.
  • Erich Wisplinghoff (arrangement): The Benedictine abbey of Brauweiler. Berlin - New York 1992 ( Germania Sacra , New Series 29, The Dioceses of the Church Province of Cologne. The Archdiocese of Cologne 5), pp. 296–297.

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personal data
SURNAME Adami, Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Benedictine clergyman, auxiliary bishop in Hildesheim
DATE OF BIRTH 1610
PLACE OF BIRTH Mülheim near Cologne
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1663
Place of death Hildesheim