Anton Ruland

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Anton Ruland (born November 25, 1809 in Würzburg ; † January 8, 1874 in Munich ) was a Catholic priest, librarian and politician, member of the Chamber of Deputies in the Bavarian State Parliament , Catholic-Conservative, then Bavarian Patriot Party .

Origin and occupation

Ruland was the son of the professor of pharmacology and Forensic Medicine at the University of Würzburg Thomas August Ruland (1776-1846) and his wife Anna Maria Christina (born Reder, 1776-1840), the daughter of doctoral practitioner and volunteer corps leader Ignaz Reder from Mellrichstadt, born. Anton Ruland had two sisters and three brothers with whom he grew up in Würzburg. There he also attended elementary school and grammar school and enrolled at the university in 1826 with the aim of becoming a priest ( theology and philosophy ). In 1829 he entered the seminary , and on May 26, 1832 he was ordained a priest . 1834 Ruland was at Würzburg University with a dissertation on the measurement canon ( "De S. Missae Canonis ortu et progressu nec non valore dogmatico") doctorate .

In 1832, Ruland was given a position as a cooperator for the pastor in Kitzingen and gained initial experience in pastoral care . In 1833 he was employed as the second librarian by the then director of the Würzburg University Library , Peter Richarz , his godfather. After Richarz's appointment as Bishop of Speyer (1835), Ruland came into conflict with the professors and university management over competence disputes, which is why he was transferred to Arnstein as pastor against his will in 1837 . Here he worked not only spiritually, but also literarily until 1850, whereby his work “The Franconian Clerus and the Redemptorists ” (1848), published in Würzburg, also received national attention. In 1850 he was again appointed to the University Library of Würzburg, this time - at the intervention of the physician Franz von Rinecker - as senior librarian with the rank of full professor. Ruland held this office until his death.

Ruland was the mentor of the priest and university librarian Johann Baptist Stamminger (1836-1892), who in 1868 created the Franconian Volksblatt as the organ of Lower Franconian Catholicism and as the leading figure among the Catholics of Lower Franconia, he inherited Ruland.

Ruland died during a state parliament session of the cholera that was rampant in Munich . Initially buried in Munich, his body was transferred to Würzburg on July 1, 1892 and buried in the family grave site in the main cemetery.

Membership of Parliament

Ruland was a member of the Chamber of Deputies , the second chamber of the Bavarian State Parliament , for the first time in 1847. At this point in time, before the reform legislation of 1848, the state parliament was called the “Estates Assembly” according to the constitution of 1818 and its second chamber consisted of five “classes”. In each of these classes, the deputies were elected separately. In the elections of 1845, Ruland had been appointed as a substitute in the class of Catholic clergy and moved up in 1847 for a resigned MP. Thus Ruland was also a member of the Reform Landtag, which had been meeting since March 1848.

In November / December 1848, according to the new electoral law of June 4, 1848, elections were held for the first time (indirect, equal, public election for men based on the mode of absolute majority voting ) and Ruland was unable to win a mandate. He was only successful in the new election in July 1849 and was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from then on until his death. He represented different constituencies : 1849–1855 Haag / Upper Bavaria , 1855–1858 and 1858–1863 Würzburg / Lower Franconia, 1863–1869 Schweinfurt / Lower Franconia, 1869 Kitzingen / Lower Franconia and finally in 1869 until his death Lohr / Lower Franconia.

From 1851 to 1862, Ruland was also a member of the Community Plenipotentiary College in Würzburg. Ruland turned down offers to run in the elections for the Customs Parliament in 1868 or for the German Reichstag in 1871.

literature

  • Friedrich Leitschuh :  Ruland, Anton . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, pp. 632-634.
  • Thomas Sauer: Anton Ruland (1809–1874). A contribution to the history of the Catholic restoration in Bavaria (series of publications on Bavarian regional history, Volume 103), Munich: CH Beck 1995.
  • Thomas Sauer, Ralf Vollmuth : Letters from members of the Würzburg medical faculty in the estate of Anton Ruland. Sources on the history of medicine in the 19th century with short biographies. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 9, 1991, pp. 135-206, especially pp. 135-144 and 167-171.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Weiss : The Catholic Church in the 19th Century. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 430-449 and 1303, here: p. 444.
  2. ↑ Dirk Götschmann : Würzburg 1814–1869. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes; Volume III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 ), pp. 25–57 and 1249–1253; here: p. 51 f.
personal data
SURNAME Ruland, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic priest, librarian and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1874
Place of death Munich