Franz Donat Werner
Franz Donat Werner (born July 12, 1761 in Trier ; † May 11, 1836 in Speyer ) was a Catholic priest , as well as first cathedral dean , later also vicar general of the diocese of Speyer, which was re-established in 1821 .
Live and act
Priest and Spiritual Council
He came from Trier, obtained a licentiate in theology and was ordained a priest on September 18, 1784 in Trier.
After working as a curate and from 1788 as a professor at the Electoral Gymnasium Trier , where he was also a member of the municipal reading society , Werner moved to the Principality of Passau . Here the last Prince-Bishop Leopold Leonhard von Thun and Hohenstein appointed him to the clergy . Emperor Franz II appointed him canon at the Freising Collegiate Monastery of St. Andrä on November 29, 1792 . On November 12, 1798 Werner, under Prince-Bishop Joseph Konrad von Schroffenberg-Mös, also became a clergyman in the diocese of Freising . In 1801 he advanced to the position of normal school director and was responsible for the school system there until the secularization of the spiritual territory at the end of 1802.
During the bishopless period between 1803 and 1817, Franz Donat Werner remained under the Apostolic Vicar Joseph Jakob von Heckenstaller as a councilor in the Freising diocese leadership.
Canon in Speyer
By the Bavarian Concordat of 1817 the Catholic Church in Bavaria was reorganized and u. a. the diocese of Speyer re-established. The execution of the state treaty dragged on until 1821. When the Speyer cathedral chapter was re-appointed that year, King Maximilian Joseph I of Bavaria appointed the Freising clergyman Franz Donat Werner as the cathedral capital and the first cathedral dean of the new district. Werner was a preferred candidate of the king, as was the first bishop, Matthäus Georg von Chandelle . The latter also appointed Franz Donat Werner as head of his ordinariate. When the bishop died in 1826, the cathedral chapter elected Franz Donat Werner as the vicar of the capitular , that is, he headed the diocese until the new bishop was appointed. The new head shepherd Johann Martin Manl (1827-1835) and his successor Peter von Richarz (1835-1836) appointed Werner as their vicar general .
According to an obituary in the magazine Der Katholik (No. 8, 1836, page 32), Franz Donat Werner had been suffering from gout for a long time , from which he also died.
The Speyer historian Franz Xaver Remling wrote about him:
“ The cathedral dean Franz Donat Werner was born in Trier on July 12th, 1761 and was already in his sixties when he was appointed to the Speyer Cathedral. Because more deserving men stood in the way of filling the metropolitan chapter in Munich, Werner was appointed cathedral dean in Speyer, against his wish and hope, where no one expected and no one knew him. Of tall, venerable figure, with snow-white hair, calm, deliberate gait and measured language, he could already represent a dignitary of the church, no matter how weak his physical strength was. In view of the work still available from his hand, his intellectual ability and activity can only be described as very mediocre. "
Remling also notes that the king had previously proposed him for the same post in Passau , which the Apostolic Nuncio Francesco Serra di Cassano refused because he was reputed to have supported the Emser puncture .
In his Church History of the Palatinate , Volume IV (1964), Ludwig Stamer recalls the fact that Bishop Chandelle and Domdekan Werner were the only people in the new diocese leadership who were familiar with administrative activities and processes.
literature
- Franz Xaver Remling : Modern history of the bishops of Speyer , 1867, Speyer, Verlag Kleeberger, 1876, page 245
- Guido Nonn: The canons since the reestablishment of the Speyer diocese, in 1817 , writings of the Speyer diocesan archive, 1981
- Ludwig Stamer : Church history of the Palatinate , Volume IV, Pilger-Verlag Speyer, 1964, various places.
- Martin von Deutinger : Contributions to the history, topography and statistics of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising , Volume 5, Page 567, 1854; Scan from the source
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hilmar Tilgner: Reading societies on the Moselle and Middle Rhine in the age of enlightened absolutism, 2001, page 86 excerpt from the source
- ^ Theodor Wiedemann : History of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation in the land under the Enns, Volume 1, page 208, 1879; Excerpt from the source
- ↑ Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria, Munich 1813, page 307 Scan from the source
- ↑ Scan from the source
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Werner, Franz Donat |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Catholic priest, cathedral capitular, cathedral dean |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 12, 1761 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | trier |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 11, 1836 |
| Place of death | Speyer |