Albert von Haller (Bishop)
Albert von Haller (born July 18, 1808 in Bern , ( Switzerland ); † November 28, 1858 in Chur ) was a Roman Catholic clergyman , vicar general and auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Chur .
Life
Haller was the son of Bern councilor Karl Ludwig von Haller (1768-1854) and Katharina von Wattenwyl, daughter of David Salomon Ludwig von Wattenwyl , an officer in the Dutch service, bailiff in Fraubrunnen .
The father, a member of the Swiss Reformed Church , converted in October 1820 secretly to Catholicism . When this became public knowledge, he defended himself in a widely read brochure in 1821. In the same year Haller, whose position in the reformed Bern had become untenable, went to Paris , where he worked as a publicist for the ultra-royalist press.
Albert followed him to Paris and also converted in 1826. In 1829 he went to study theology at the Collegium Germanicum in Rome , where he was awarded a Dr. theol. PhD. A year earlier, on March 29, 1834, he was ordained a priest and incardinated in the clergy of the Lausanne-Geneva diocese. Initially secretary of the nunciature , he became pastor in Galgenen ( Canton Schwyz ) in 1839 , dean of the chapter Ausser-Schwyz and in 1855 a member of the cathedral chapter in Chur. In the same year, Bishop Kaspar de Carl from Hohenbalken appointed him his vicar general . In 1856 he received the citizenship of Lantsch / Lenz .
In order to be able to cope with the many pastoral tasks, Bishop Caspar I of Rome asked for an auxiliary bishop in 1858 and proposed his vicar general. Rome complied with his request and appointed Haller on March 18, 1858 auxiliary bishop in Chur and titular bishop of Carrhae . The Bishop of Basel , Karl Arnold-Obrist , consecrated him on June 29, 1858 in the collegiate church of the Benedictine Abbey of Einsiedeln .
Auxiliary Bishop Albert von Haller died that same year on November 28th and was buried next to the Cathedral of St. Mary's Assumption in Chur.
literature
- Leo Ettlin: Haller, Albert von. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Albert Portmann-Tinguely: Haller, Karl Ludwig von. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Erwin Gatz (ed.): The bishops of the German-speaking countries 1785/1803 to 1945. A biographical lexicon. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-428-05447-4 , pp. 92ff.
- Johann Georg Mayer: History of the Diocese of Chur 2. 1914, p. 668.
- Lexicon for Theology and the Church , Volume 4, p. 1334.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hierarchia Catholica Medii et Recentioris Aevi , Vol. 8, p. 184
- ^ Leo Ettlin: Albert von Haller. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haller, Albert von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Auxiliary Bishop in Chur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 18, 1808 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bern |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 28, 1858 |
| Place of death | Chur |