Berthold Pürstinger

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Berthold Pürstinger (also Berthold von Chiemsee ; Bertoldus Chiemensis ; * 1465 in Salzburg , † 19 July 1543 in Saalfelden ) was a theological writer and 1508–1526 Bishop of Chiemsee .

Life

Title page of the pamphlet “Onus ecclesie”, published anonymously by Johann Weyssenburger , Landshut 1524, with a woodcut by Jörg Breu

Berthold's father Wilhelm Pürstinger was court clerk in Salzburg , where he acquired citizenship in 1472. Berthold probably attended the Salzburg Cathedral School and studied from 1481 in Vienna and 1489 canon law in Perugia . He completed his studies with a master's degree and a licentiate in both rights. After being ordained a priest in 1491, he worked for some time as the General Procurator of the Salzburg Consistory . In 1495 he acted as one of the four compromisers in the election of the Archbishop of Salzburg, Leonhard von Keutschach . Around 1500 he owned the parishes of Schnaitsee in Upper Bavaria and Hallein , whose pastoral duties he transferred to vicars .

After the death of the Chiemsee Bishop Christoph Mendel von Steinfels , Archbishop Keutschach appointed Berthold Pürstinger as his successor on May 8, 1508. The episcopal ordination by the archbishop took place on July 8th or 9th of the same year. Like his predecessors, Pürstinger also worked as auxiliary bishop in Salzburg and acted as his deputy during the archbishop's absence. As a result of a process led by his predecessor, a judgment was not issued until 1510, with which Berthold Pürstinger, as the successor to Bishop Mendel von Steinfels, was ordered to pay a fine to the Herrenchiemsee archdeacon . The subsequent disputes with the heirs of Mendel von Steinfels dragged on until 1519.

During his tenure, Pürstinger arranged for the publication of a breviary for the Chiemsee diocese in 1509 , which was only published in Venice in 1515/16. In 1511 and 1512 he took part in the provincial councils that were concerned with the preparation of the Fifth Lateran Council . In 1513 he consecrated the Herrenchiemsee Cathedral. In 1522 he took part in the Mühldorf reform consultations.

Because of the difficult ecclesiastical conditions prevailing at the time, Pürstinger is said to have been willing to resign as early as 1516 . After he was threatened because of a Counter-Reformation sermon in Kitzbühel in 1523 , where a considerable proportion of the population professed Lutheranism , and after peasant revolts repeatedly broke out in the Archbishopric of Salzburg , he renounced his diocese on May 6, 1526 and retired to the Cistercian monastery Raitenhaslach back. There he devoted himself to writing and completed his main work in 1527, the "Tewtsche Theologey", which contained a comprehensive Catholic doctrine . In 1528 Pürstinger settled in Saalfelden, which belonged to the Archbishopric of Salzburg. There he translated the "Tewtsche Theologey" into Latin, which was printed in Augsburg in 1531 under the title "Theologia germanica". The pamphlet "Onus ecclesiae", which appeared in 1524 and was published several times, most likely also came from Berthold Pürstinger.

In 1532 Pürstinger founded the “Priestly Society of St. John” in Saalfelden, to which lay people were also allowed to belong. Ten years later he founded a hospital there for poor, old and sick priests and lay people. Although Archbishop Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg , who repeatedly consulted Pürstinger on theological issues, proposed the diocese of Chiemsee again in 1535, he refused. With his will drawn up shortly before his death, he determined all of his property for the poor hospital he founded. After his death he was buried in the Holy Cross Chapel in Saalfelden. The tomb erected there was destroyed in the major fire on July 29, 1811. The hospital for the poor was closed in 1655 and ownership was transferred to the Salzburg seminary .

Fonts

  • Breuiarium gills [se]. Venice (1515/16)
  • Onus ecclesiae . Landshut (1524); Augsburg (1531); Cologne (1620)
  • Tewtsche theologey . (1528); Munich (1531); Munich (1852)
  • Theologia germanica . Augsburg (1531)
  • Tewtsch Rational, over the ambt holier meß . Augsburg (1535)

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predecessor Office successor
Christoph Mendel von Steinfels Bishop of Chiemsee
1508–1526
Aegidius Rehm