Anton Ernst von Breuner

Anton Ernst von Breuner (born October 4, 1724 in Graz , † February 15, 1789 in Passau ) was a German prelate .

Life

Anton Ernst Franz, imperial count (since 1776 prince) von Breuner, born in Graz in 1724, was a son of the Styrian governor Karl Adam von Breuner and a brother of the prince-bishop of Lavant and Chiemsee, Franz Xaver von Breuner (1723–1797). He became canon in Freising in 1741 and six years later in Passau . In 1752 he was promoted to cathedral capital in Freising, and in Passau in 1755 as well. Ordained a priest in Passau in 1764, he received the office of Episcopal Passau official and vicar general for the diocese part in the region of the Enns , which was separated from the prince-bishopric of Passau during his tenure in 1783 by order of Emperor Josef II . From 1772 he was the real secret councilor and provost of the collegiate monastery St. Veit in Freising. He died on February 15, 1789 in Passau and was buried there.

literature

• August Leidl : Breuner, Anton Ernst Franz. In: Erwin Gatz (ed.), With the assistance of Stephan M. Janker: The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire 1648 to 1803. A biographical lexicon. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-06763-0 , p. 45.
• East Bavarian border marks: Passauer Jahrbuch für Geschichte, Kunst und Volkskunde, Volume 35 (1993), p. 112
• Manfred Heim: Ludwig Joseph Freiherr von Welden, Prince-Bishop of Freising (1769–1788). EOS, St. Ottilien, 1994, p. 162