Franz Jakob Damian Friedrich Finger

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Franz Jakob Damian Friedrich Finger (born July 14, 1756 in Cochem , † April 14, 1808 in Münstermaifeld ) was a Catholic clergyman and canon .

Life

The parents of Franz Jakob Damian Friedrich Finger were Philip Karl Finger, chamberlain to the electoral Trier , and Maria Barbara Charlotte Carove, daughter of the electoral waiter and customs officer Johann Gerhard Carove in Cochem. Maria Carove was also the niece of Pastor Peter Carove. Franz Finger was classified as belonging to the clergy as early as 1767. According to a parchment deed with the date and place, August 16, 1766 Vienna , Emperor Joseph II made use of his right of the first request Primariae Preces and appointed Franz Jakob Finger at the age of only 10 years canon of Karden , where he was six years later, August 14, 1772 finally as Kapitular - canons recorded. On May 20, 1791, the Archbishop of Trier , Clemens Wenzeslaus , allowed him to swap his canonical von Karden for that of Münstermaifeld , where he was one of the last members of the collegiate clergy. When monasteries and monasteries were dissolved as a result of the French Revolutionary Wars , many former clergymen now took up secular positions, and so Franz Jakob Finger found a job with the Münstermaelder administration as an official pension master. Around 1800 a woman named Kern gave birth to a son named Josef, who grew up in the Hunsrück with a Gutmann family. The son later learned the mason trade, went on the road for many years and came back to Münstermaifeld as a master builder in 1827. Josef Kern later became a well-known church builder and built many churches in the vicinity. B. 1862 with the construction of the third Wehlener commissioned church.

literature

  • Alfons Friderichs (Ed.): Finger, Franz Jakob Damian Friedrich . In: Personalities of the Cochem-Zell District, Kliomedia, Trier 2004, ISBN 3-89890-084-3 , p. 108.
  • Klaus Layendecker, Willi Pütz (authors): Familienbuch Cochem , based on the church records of the parish of St. Martin with the branches Sehl, Faid and Dohr, 1691–1889, Volume 1, p. 214, City of Cochem (Ed.), Treis-Karden / Bessenbach March 2008.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Primariae Preces
  2. ↑ New construction of the third Wehlener church in 1862
personal data
SURNAME Finger, Franz Jakob Damian Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catholic clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1756
PLACE OF BIRTH Cochem
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1808
Place of death Münstermaifeld