Anton (Schaumburg)

Anton, Count of Holstein-Schaumburg (March 8, 1549 - January 21, 1599 ) was Bishop of Minden from 1587 to 1599 .

family

Anton was the youngest son of Otto IV, Count von Holstein-Schauenburg-Pinneburg from his first marriage to Maria (* 1527; † 1554), daughter of Barnim IX. , the Duke of Pomerania-Stettin. His older brother Hermann was bishop of Minden from 1567 to 1582. His namesake Anton von Schaumburg , Archbishop of Cologne, was Anton and Hermann's paternal uncle.

Career

Although Anton's father introduced the Reformation in his domain in 1559 , he had two of his sons raised to be Catholic clergymen. Anton von Schaumburg and his older brother Hermann were raised by Jesuits in Ingolstadt . As a child he already received a benefice as a canon in Cologne, where he was promoted to cathedral dean before 1577 . At the same time he was provost in Hildesheim.

Bishop of Minden

Anton was appointed bishop on September 11, 1587 and served as prince-bishop in the diocese of Minden and thus also as regent in the monastery of Minden until his death . Under his predecessors from the Braunschweig-Lüneburg house, Lutheran teaching had spread in the diocese. Anton is considered an opponent of the Reformation. Since a large number of canons inclined to Protestantism belonged to the Minden cathedral chapter during Anton's reign and there were therefore frequent disputes between Anton and the cathedral chapter, he was ultimately unable to prevent the advance of the Reformation movement in his diocese. Rather, as early as 1597 the Protestant-minded Christian von Braunschweig-Lüneburg was placed at his side as coadjutor , who himself became bishop in Minden after Anton's death.

Web links

• Entry on Anton von Schaumberg on catholic-hierarchy.org ; Retrieved July 18, 2016.
• Anton von Holstein-Schauenburg on thepeerage.com , accessed on August 23, 2015.

literature

• H. Kampschulte: History of the introduction of Protestantism in the area of ​​the current province of Westphalia . Schöningh, Paderborn 1866, p. 432 ( digitized from Google Books ).

predecessor	Office	successor
Heinrich Julius of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel	Bishop of Minden 1587–1599	Christian of Braunschweig-Lüneburg