Daniel Joseph Mayer von Mayern

Daniel Joseph Mayer von Mayern

Memorial plaque on Mayer's birthplace

Coat of arms Daniel Joseph Mayer Edler von Mayern, Archbishop of Prague

Daniel Joseph Mayer von Mayern (Czech: Daniel Josef Mayer z Mayernu ; born January 16, 1656 in Wartenberg ; † April 10, 1733 ) was Archbishop of Prague .

Career

As the son of a butcher, he grew up in poor circumstances. After attending school in Gitschin , he studied theology in Prague as an alumne of Bartholomäus- Konvikt , which he completed in 1678 with a theological baccalaureate . In the same year he was ordained a priest and then worked as a pastor in Frühbuss in the Ore Mountains , where he is said to have converted around 500 Protestants through missions . In 1684 he became pastor of Lichtenstadt .

After he was elected canon of Prague in 1693 , he became a German preacher at St. Vitus Cathedral , in 1694 librarian and in 1701 cathedral provost, and in this position acquired three goods to improve the endowment of the provost's office . Together with Archdeacon Martini, he donated a college of six choir priests to the cathedral chapter . Under the Archbishops Johann Joseph von Breuner and Franz Ferdinand von Kuenburg he officiated as their vicar general .

1700 appointed him Emperor Karl VI. as administrator of the royal finances, later appointed him imperial privy councilor and raised him to the nobility. On April 17, 1711 Mayer von Mayern was appointed titular bishop of Tiberias and auxiliary bishop in Prague and consecrated on October 9, 1712 in Königgrätz by Bishop Johann Adam Wratislaw von Mitrowitz .

In the time of the Sedisvakanz 1710–1712 and after the death of the Archbishop of Kuenburg, he headed the archdiocese as a capitular vicar . That is probably why the emperor nominated him as his successor. The papal confirmation of May 7, 1732 was followed by the enthronement of the 76-year-old. During his tenure, which lasted only seven months, he arranged that the hermits had to join a brotherhood that was under the supervision of an archbishop's visitor . He determined his fortune for the veneration of the Bohemian patron saint in St. Vitus Cathedral and also set up a foundation that should enable three boys from his relatives to study.

In 1732 he confirmed the new rule of hermits in Bohemia. On November 28, 1730, the Brotherhood of the Order of the Holy Trinity was founded, and on May 24, 1732, Mayer von Mayern entrusted the administration of the pilgrimage chapel in Engelhaus. He remained connected to his hometown throughout his life. According to legend, as archbishop he introduced potato cultivation so that the local population would not starve to death. He died in April 1733 at the age of 77 and was buried in St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague Castle.

literature

• Kurt A. Huber, in Erwin Gatz : The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire 1648-1803 , ISBN 3-428-06763-0 , pp. 302–303.
• Hermann Brandl: Legends and historical messages from the western Ore Mountains for the youth , Graslitz, 1927

Web links

Commons : Daniel Josef Mayer z Mayernu  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ernst Nittner: A Thousand Years Diocese of Prague, 973-1973: Contribution z. Millennium . Ackermann-Gemeinde, 1974 ( google.de [accessed April 1, 2020]).
2. ^ Alfred Eckert: The German Protestant pastors of the Reformation period in West Bohemia: AG . Johannes-Mathesius-Verlag, 1974 ( google.de [accessed April 1, 2020]).
3. ^ Joseph Anton von Riegger: Student foundations in Bohemia: made known for the service of mankind . In von Schönfeldschen Handlung, 1787 ( google.de [accessed April 1, 2020]).
4. ↑ Anton Frind: The story of the bishops and archbishops of Prague written for the nine hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the Prague bishopric and dedicated to the love fund to support needy priests . Self-rel. d. Authored in Komm. Dkk Universitätsbuchhandlung, 1873 ( google.de [accessed April 1, 2020]).

predecessor	Office	successor
Franz Ferdinand von Kuenburg	Archbishop of Prague 1732–1733	Johann Adam Wratislaw von Mitrowitz