Franz Ignaz von Streber

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Franz Ignaz von Streber

Franz Ignaz von Streber (born February 11, 1758 in Reisbach ( Lower Bavaria ); † April 26, 1841 in Munich ) was provost and auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising , as well as titular bishop of Birtha . He became known as a numismatist and head of the Bavarian Coin Cabinet .

Life

In 1765, Streber was accepted as a singing boy in the boys' seminar in Landshut. In 1774 he entered the college of the Bartholomäer in Ingolstadt and acquired there the degree of Magister philosophiae in 1776 and in 1779 that of Magister theologiae (1779). He was ordained a priest on December 23, 1780 .

Subsequently, the priest was the private secretary of the administrative officer and historian Johann Goswin Widder (1734–1800) in Munich for 10 years , as well as the tutor of his son Gabriel Bernhard von Widder , who later became the regional president of Upper Bavaria. Streber's tasks also included looking after the "Widderschen Münzsammlung".

Because of this numismatic experience, in 1782 he was appointed assistant to the later Cardinal Johann Casimir Häffelin , who was in charge of the Electoral Coin Cabinet at the Munich court . With the help of Häffelin and his successor, Streber acquired such extensive knowledge of numismatics that he was appointed director of the electoral coin collections in 1785. He was instrumental in organizing and researching the coins according to scientific standards.

Streber had been the court chaplain since 1783, and in 1792 he became a censorship council . In 1797 Streber was elected as vice director on the board of the "Spiritual Council" and from 1799 to 1802 he led it as director.

The high point of Streber's secular career was in 1803 his appointment as real court orchestra director ; his ecclesiastical career the appointment as auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising on September 24, 1821, his ordination as titular bishop of Birtha on December 16, 1821 by nuncio Francesco Serra di Cassano , as well as the elevation to the cathedral provost in 1822. In the same year he was also appointed Appointed member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Ailing since autumn 1840, Streber withdrew into private life in early 1841 and died at the age of 83 on April 26 of the same year in Munich. He was buried under the arcades of the Old South Cemetery (then Central Cemetery) in Munich. His biographer Sigmund Ritter von Riezler emphasizes "mildness, friendliness and unlimited charity" as the most prominent character traits of the bishop and also writes about him:

“It was granted to him to get through to King Ludwig I with his use for the restoration (1835) of the Seligenthal monastery near Landshut , to bless his own parents for the second time after fifty years of marriage, and to celebrate his fiftieth jubilee as a priest himself. The old man gave the sermon in the open market in Reisbach , in his beloved home, whose school system and other charitable institutions owe a number of foundations to their charitable son. Streber died on April 26, 1841, and after a harmonious life that had never been clouded by illness or passion, death appeared to him so much as the brother of sleep that the unchanged appearance of the corpse evoked the thought of apparent death. King Ludwig, who heard of the rumor, had his personal doctor diagnose the death. "

- Sigmund Ritter von Riezler : General German Biography , Volume 36 (1893) p. 552

In the last years of his life, Streber had taken in the tenor Anton Raaff (1714–1797), who was a friend of his , who led a markedly religious life, but was also interested in aesthetics and science.

In 1845, a joint memorial was erected on the main square of Reisbach's birthplace for the three most famous sons of the community, who were born there within 20 years and all of whom had become famous in the spiritual world: Franz Ignaz von Streber, the naturalist Maximus von Imhof and the bishop from Regensburg, Franz Xaver Schwäbl .

tomb

Grave of Franz Ignaz Streber on the old southern cemetery in Munich location

The tomb of Franz Ignaz nerd is on the old southern cemetery in Munich (wall right place at 321/322 burial ground 18) location . The numismatist and archaeologist Franz Streber (1806–1864) was a nephew of Auxiliary Bishop Franz Ignaz Streber and lies in the same grave.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On Gabriel Bernhard von Widder, mentioning the educator Franz Ignaz von Streber
  2. ^ Ernst Leopold Stahl: Das Europäische Mannheim , Mannheim, 1940, p. 140.

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personal data
SURNAME Streber, Franz Ignaz von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic theologian and numismatist
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1758
PLACE OF BIRTH Reisbach
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1841
Place of death Munich