Emanuel von Schimonsky
Emanuel von Schimonsky (also: Christoph Emanuel von Schimony- Schimonsky ; * July 23, 1752 at Brzeznitz Castle near Lubowitz , Ratibor district ; † December 27, 1832 in Breslau ) was Prince-Bishop of Wroclaw from 1824 to 1832 .
Life
His parents were Karl Joseph von Schimony-Schimonsky, director of the Upper Silesian principality and royal Prussian district administrator of the Ratibor district , and Karoline, née. Freiin von Gruttschreiber.
After visiting the Wroclaw Catholic high school he studied at the University and from 1771 in Rome, where he was a student at in the et Hungaricum German College was taken. After being ordained a priest on April 1, 1775 in the Lateran basilica , he returned to Silesia and became archpriest in Lohnau , where he remained pastor until 1793.
After he had been a canon in Neisse since 1771 , he was appointed to the Breslau cathedral chapter in 1793 and promoted to vicar general in 1795 . On December 18, 1797, Pope Pius VI appointed him . the Auxiliary Bishop of Wroclaw while the titular bishop of Lerus , he became coadjutor of the Prince Bishop Hohenlohe .
In 1807, on behalf of the Silesian princes, he negotiated with King Friedrich Wilhelm to reduce the Napoleonic burden of war on behalf of the Prince-Bishop, who was mostly absent . Two years later he went to see the king in Königsberg , where the court camp had been relocated due to the war, and made a pledge of loyalty from the Silesian Catholic clergy .
During the seven-year vacancy after the death of Prince-Bishop Joseph von Hohenlohe in 1817, Emanuel von Schimonsky was Apostolic Vicar (in 1821 the diocese was directly subordinate to the Pope). It was not until October 16, 1823 that the cathedral chapter elected him bishop. On May 3, 1824, Pope Pius VII confirmed the election, so that it was installed in the Wroclaw Cathedral on August 26, 1824.
He decidedly rejected the German national reform efforts begun by his predecessor. After his death he was buried in the Breslau Cathedral .
literature
- Rainer Bendel : Schimony-Schimonsky, Christoph Emanuel von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 782 ( digitized version ).
- E. Gatz: Schimonsky-Schimony Emanuel von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 10, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7001-2186-5 , p. 142 f. (Direct links on p. 142 , p. 143 ).
- Karl Kastner: Wroclaw Bishops . East German Publishing House, Breslau 1929.
- Konrad Wutke : Schimonsky-Schimoni, Emanuel von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 31, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 273 f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Sachs: 'Prince Bishop and Vagabond'. The story of a friendship between the Prince-Bishop of Breslau Heinrich Förster (1799–1881) and the writer and actor Karl von Holtei (1798–1880). Edited textually based on the original Holteis manuscript. In: Medical historical messages. Journal for the history of science and specialist prose research. Volume 35, 2016 (2018), pp. 223–291, here: p. 273 ( The Prince-Bishops of the Diocese of Breslau in the 19th Century ).
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Joseph Christian Franz zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein |
Bishop of Breslau 1824–1832 |
Leopold von Sedlnitzky |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schimonsky, Emanuel von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schimony-Schimonsky, Christoph Emanuel von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bishop of Wroclaw |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 23, 1752 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brzeznitz Castle near Lubowitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 27, 1832 |
| Place of death | Wroclaw |