Carl Borromeo Egger

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Carl Borromäus Egger , also Karl Egger (born October 31, 1772 in Denklingen , † December 31, 1849 in Augsburg ) was a German Catholic clergyman and politician.

Life

Carl Borromäus Egger was the youngest son of the forester Joseph Anton Egger.

education

At first he was tutored by his father and at Easter 1783 he attended further lessons with Pastor Johann Michael Feneberg , with whom he was related on his mother's side, and who taught him Latin.

On October 28, 1784 he came to the former Jesuit college St. Salvator in Augsburg; there he received lessons in the ancient languages ​​as well as French and Italian ; privately he also attended the legal lectures by Jakob Anton von Zallinger zum Thurn . While still attending school, in 1789 he became Ignaz Ducrue's private teacher in the family of merchants by name and made the experience of docendo discimus ( we learn through teaching ).

Spiritual and professional work

On September 19, 1795 he received his first ordinations and entered the Episcopal Seminary in Pfaffenhausen on November 4, 1795 ; there he became a repetitor of the liturgy and homiletics when he joined . On March 31, 1897 he was ordained as a subdeacon , on April 1 as a deacon and on April 7 as a priest . On May 8, 1797, he celebrated his first holy sacrifice .

Due to illness, he left the seminar at the beginning of October 1800 and stayed at home for a long time. After his recovery he received a teaching position in philosophy at the University of Dillingen by decree from Prince-Bishop Clemens Wenzeslaus of Saxony on September 1, 1801 ; There he taught logic , metaphysics and morals for three years until the university was dissolved in 1803 by the new sovereign, Elector Maximilian IV. Joseph, who later became King Maximilian I of Bavaria, as a result of secularization . During his time as a professor of philosophy he was awarded a doctorate degree from the University of Dillingen.

By decree of December 17, 1804, the parish of Kleinaitingen was assigned to him, and on February 1, 1806, all schools within the jurisdiction of the Schwabmünchen Regional Court were inspected ; on March 12, 1809 he was appointed as a district school inspector. Together with his relative, the ex-Jesuit Dominikus Schelkle (* 1767), who lived with him, he introduced the German folk song for Lent , Corpus Christi and Advent in the community .

When the clergy were supposed to be burdened with the tax of war perquation and communal requirements in 1810, he wrote a petition that was signed by all pastors of the Lech and Illerkreis and presented by a deputation in Munich , which resulted in the exemption from that tax would have.

He was considered as a candidate for bishopric for Augsburg in 1819 and 1824.

When the clergy were supposed to take an oath on the Bavarian constitution between 1818 and 1819 , Carl Borromäus Egger realized that this would affect the earlier concordat with the Pope , which had not yet been published. He then refused to take the oath and played a large part in the royal declaration of September 15, 1821, in which it was said that the Catholics' oath on the constitution referred only to civil conditions and that they (the Catholics) were to nothing be made binding, which would be contrary to the divine laws or the Catholic church statutes .

He was also the author of the theses of the pastoral letter of the Vicariate General of the Diocese of Augsburg of February 28, 1820, in which mysticism was exposed and the clergy were asked to defend themselves.

In 1820 he received a letter of appreciation from Pope Pius VII for his efforts as a Catholic clergyman , which was printed in the literary newspaper for Catholic religious teachers , published by Baron Kaspar Anton von Mastiaux .

On May 3, 1820, Bishop Joseph Maria von Fraunberg was appointed to the Real Spiritual Council of the Diocese of Augsburg and on November 1, 1821 to the Canon in the capacity of an episcopal official ; with the permission of the authorities and the Pope, he kept his parish in Kleinaitingen, which he did not give up until 1822.

In 1826 he was proposed by the government as bishop for the diocese of Passau , but strictly rejected by Johann Michael Sailer as "ecclesiastical ultra" in the sense of "Petrine-Roman-Catholic" and as "an imperious and persecution- addicted zealot ".

Under his leadership, the monasteries St. Maria Stern and St. Ursula , of which he was spiritual leader until his death, were reopened and reorganized in Augsburg in 1828 . In the same year he was actively involved in the establishment of the grammar school (today: grammar school near St. Stephan ) and for a long time its scholarch .

On November 9, 1841, he was appointed cathedral dean in Augsburg.

In 1847 he celebrated his 50th anniversary as a priest.

He maintained a friendship with Auxiliary Bishop Gregor von Zirkel in Würzburg , Franz Stapf (1766-1820) in Bamberg , Abbot Maximilian Prechtl , Joseph Anton Sambuga , Bishop Augustin I Bartolomäus Hille in Bohemia and Bishop Gregor Thomas Ziegler . For Vicar General Joseph Ignaz Lumpert (1751-1821) he had a special relationship of trust, this trust him various Christian censorship and other important work on.

The entire higher and lower clergy , General Baron von Flotow , most of the government and city judges and the mayor Georg von Forndran attended his funeral ; City dean Alois Tischer (1789–1857) gave the funeral speech.

Chamber of Deputies

From 1819 to 1822 he represented the Upper Danube District in the 1st and 2nd Landtag as a member of the Chamber of Deputies in the State Parliament of the Kingdom of Bavaria . During this time he was a member of the committee for complaints from February 9, 1819 and, from January 24, 1822, of the committee for investigating complaints about violations of the state constitution . After some discussions in the state parliament, uncertainties about his responsibility for the parish in Kleinaitingen led to a vote on his legitimacy and remaining in the state parliament. He was dismissed from the Chamber on February 8, 1822 with 65 to 30 votes. His successor was Joseph Vögele.

The nuncio Francesco Serra ruled on him that he was a Member who had defended the cause of the Church in the Chamber with honor and success.

Writing

Carl Borromäus Egger translated together with Dominikus Schelkle The Apostolic Year as a continuation of the contemplative Gospel by Arnaud-Bernard d'Icard Duquesne in 12 volumes from the French.

Together with Dominikus Schelkle and the pastor of Ottmarshausen , Joseph Wörz, he founded a scholars' association from which, among other things, The Gospel Considered , The Apostolic Year and Berault's Church History , a total of 28 volumes, emerged.

He published his essays and presentations in the literature newspaper for Catholic religion teachers , founded by Franz Karl Felder and later continued by Kaspar Anton von Mastiaux. Among other things, he published in the newspaper a comprehensive report on the work on formal truth and ecclesiastical freedom by a clergyman by Clemens August Droste zu Vischering . Later he also published in the Catholic magazine Sion and in the pastoral conference text of the Bamberg pastor Philipp Sauer (1787-1835). His writing The old Corpus Christi of our Lord Jesus Christ, the new Lord's Supper of Dr. Stephani, on the other hand, was honored by a Catholic priest , especially in Austria ; Also noteworthy were his treatises What is thought and preaching on various occasions .

He also published the sixth edition of Complete Pastoral Instruction on the Marriage of Franz Stapf and sermons on Christian child rearing by Martin Königsdorfer (1752-1835).

honors and awards

Memberships

  • Carl Borromäus Egger was a member of the Catholic Association of Germany , which was founded in 1848.
  • He was a member of the Association of Ordinariats , which was active in church politics across the diocesan.

Fonts (selection)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zeno: Lexicon entry on "Peraquation". Pierer's Universal Lexikon, Volume 12. Altenburg 1861, ... Retrieved March 18, 2020 .
  2. ^ Gustav Adolf Benrath: The Pietism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2000, ISBN 978-3-525-55348-0 ( google.de [accessed on March 18, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Sion. A voice in the church for our time. Kollmann, 1850 ( google.de [accessed March 20, 2020]).
  4. ^ Regensburger Zeitung: 1822 . Neubauer, 1822 ( google.de [accessed on March 18, 2020]).
  5. ^ Johann Baptist Geiger: The Catholic Association of Germany . Schmid, 1849 ( google.de [accessed on March 18, 2020]).
  6. ↑ Max Spindler: Handbook of Bavarian History Vol. IV, 2: The New Bavaria: From 1800 to the present. Second volume: Inner development and cultural life . CH Beck, 2017, ISBN 978-3-406-70456-7 ( google.de [accessed on March 18, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Egger, Carl Borromeo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Egger, Karl von Boromäo; Egger, Karl Borromeo; Egger, Carl; Egger, Karl; Egger, Karl von Borromeo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic clergyman and politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1772
PLACE OF BIRTH Thinkers
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1849
Place of death augsburg