Christoph Lorenz Carame

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Christoph Lorenz Carame (born October 28, 1737 in Speyer ; † July 19, 1809 , in Bamberg ) was a Catholic priest, dean (head) of the St. Stephan monastery in Bamberg and Pro-Chancellor of the University of Bamberg .

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family

Christoph Lorenz Carame was the son of the Speyer citizens Damian Carame and Catharina born. Korn, daughter of the Electoral Palatinate bailiff Christoph Korn in Germersheim . Damian Carame came from Luxembourg and worked in the free imperial city as the imperial post director and secretary of the prince-bishop's clergy. His brother Johann Lorenz Carame - the boy's godfather - was the canon of St. Stephen in Vienna and appointed bishop of Wiener Neustadt , but died in 1742 before his papal confirmation.

Spiritual career

Christoph Lorenz Carame attended grammar school in his native Speyer, entered the diocese's seminary, studied in Heidelberg and was ordained priest on November 30, 1760 in Speyer. His first Mass he celebrated on 3 December of the year in addition to the Speyer Cathedral nearby Jesuit Church .

His uncle Bruno Carame, secretary in the French war ministry, made it possible for him to study in Paris for six months. When he returned to Speyer, he took over the post of spiritual guide to the later Hofmarschall Philipp Anton Freiherr von Künsberg and looked after him during his law studies in Mainz and Strasbourg , and then on several trips.

Finally, Christoph Lorenz Carame went to the diocese of Bamberg , where Prince-Bishop Adam Friedrich von Seinsheim (1708–1779) appointed him to his court and appointed him court master (educator) of the noble boys. He was promoted to court chaplain and in 1776 to canon at the imperial monastery of St. Stephan (Bamberg) ; In 1778 he became a member of the diocese's spiritual council.

Bamberg Mint from 1785, with the portrait of Prince-Bishop Franz Ludwig von Erthal , who valued Christoph Lorenz Carame as his advisor.

The subsequent bishop, Franz Ludwig von Erthal (1730–1795), a strict and conscientious gentleman, chose Carame as his advisor, confidante and ceremonial officer . During the establishment of the Bamberg "General Hospital", which was strongly supported by Bishop Erthal, the latter appointed him to the hospital commission with the task of examining the matter, drawing up an expert report and supervising its implementation. In 1791, Christoph Lorenz Carame was elected dean (head) of Bamberg's Stephansstift, and at the same time the prince-bishop appointed him Pro-Chancellor of the university, which he held until the university was dissolved in 1803. When the last Prince-Bishop Christoph Franz von Buseck (1724-1805) came to power in 1795, he was appointed a real secret council .

During the First Coalition War , the French abducted the priest as a hostage to Paris in August 1796 . After his return he took over the management of the Bamberg city hospital and was most recently vicar general of the diocese.

From the transition of the episcopal territory to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1802, Christoph Lorenz Carame only devoted himself to his spiritual duties. He owned a valuable collection of copperplate engravings and was considered a profound expert on the history of Bamberg. The priest died in Bamberg in 1809, according to an obituary "gentle as his whole life was" .

The popular contemporary witness Peter Prosch (1744–1804) got to know Christoph Lorenz Carame as a young educator at the court of the prince-bishop and writes about him in his memoirs that he was then a "foolish, funny, if he wanted also clever man" . (Life and events of Peter Prosch, a Tyrolean from Ried im Zillerthal, first edition 1789)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ To the uncle Lorenz Carame († 1742)
  2. ↑ Registration at the University of Heidelberg
  3. ↑ To Philipp Anton von Künsberg († 1807)
  4. ^ About the Bamberg General Hospital founded in 1789
  5. ^ Carame as chairman of the hospital commission
  6. ↑ For activities Carames in Bamberg Hospital Commission
  7. ↑ Appointment as Vice Chancellor of the University of Bamberg
  8. ↑ On his office as Pro Chancellor of the University
  9. ^ Contemporary press release on the appointment to the Privy Council
  10. ↑ On the characteristics by Peter Prosch
personal data
SURNAME Carame, Christoph Lorenz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catholic clergyman, dean of the St. Stephen's Foundation in Bamberg and Pro-Chancellor of Bamberg University
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1737
PLACE OF BIRTH Speyer
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1809
Place of death Bamberg