Franz Xaver Nagl

Prince Archbishop Cardinal Nagl, Vienna, photo from the commemorative publication for the XXIII. International Eucharistic Congress, Vienna 1912

Franz Xaver (Maria) Cardinal Nagl , baptized as Franz Leopold, (born November 26, 1855 in Vienna - Landstrasse , † February 4, 1913 in Vienna) was Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Vienna .

Life

Franz Xaver Maria Nagl received on 14 July 1878, the sacrament of Holy Orders . Then he was chaplain in Amstetten . He later studied at the Frintaneum in Vienna and Rome and completed his studies in 1883 with a doctorate in theology . After that he was a professor at the seminary in St. Pölten for two years and was then appointed as court chaplain to the imperial and royal parish in Vienna. From 1887 he was spiritual rector at the Frintaneum, from March 14, 1889 rector of the priestly college Santa Maria dell'Anima in Rome.

On March 26, 1902, he was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Trieste-Capo d'Istria . He was ordained bishop on June 15, 1902 in the church of Santa Maria dell'Anima in Rome by Cardinal Gaetano Aloisi Masella , co- consecrators were Felix Marie de Neckere , secretary of the cathedral building of St. Peter , and Giustino Adami , titular archbishop of Caesarea Ponti .

On January 1, 1910, Franz Xaver Nagl was appointed titular archbishop of Tire and coadjutor archbishop of the Archdiocese of Vienna with the right of succession to the almost blind and deaf Cardinal Anton Joseph Gruscha . On August 5, 1911, he was appointed Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Vienna. On November 27, 1911, he was a cardinal priest with the titular church of San Marco in the College of Cardinals received.

He arranged for the renovation and expansion of a former orphanage in Boltzmanngasse in the 9th district of Alsergrund , where the Viennese seminary was housed from 1914 (after Nagl's death) .

The Kardinal-Nagl-Platz in the 3rd district Landstrasse and indirectly an underground station on the U3 line are named after him.

literature

• Hellmut Butterweck : Austrian Cardinals: From Anton Gruscha to Christoph Schönborn. Ueberreuter, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-8000-3764-5 .
• Rudolf Leeb among other things: History of Christianity in Austria. From antiquity to the present. Ueberreuter, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-8000-3914-1 .
• Franz Loidl :  Nagl Franz Xaver. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 7, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 20 f. (Direct links on p. 20 , p. 21 ).
• Franz Loidl: History of the Archdiocese of Vienna. Herold, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7008-0223-4 .
• Matthias Platzer: Cardinal Franz Xaver Nagl, Prince Archbishop of Vienna (1855–1913). Dissertation, University of Vienna, 2003.
• Ekkart Sauser :  Franz Xaver Nagl. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 18, Bautz, Herzberg 2001, ISBN 3-88309-086-7 , Sp. 1009-1011.
• Ernst Tomek : Church history of Austria. Tyrolia, Innsbruck / Vienna / Munich 1935–1959.
• Josef Vodka: Church in Austria. Guide through their history. Herder, Vienna 1959.

Web links

• Entry on Franz Xaver Nagl in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Nagl, Franz Xaver. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed August 8, 2016.
• Entry on Franz Xaver Nagl on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on August 8, 2016.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Taufbuch, Vienna 3 - Landstrasse, J. 1855, p. 124

predecessor	Office	successor
Andrea Maria Sterk	Bishop of Trieste-Koper 1902–1910	Andrei Karlin
Anton Joseph Cardinal Gruscha	Archbishop of Vienna 1911–1913	Friedrich Gustav Cardinal Piffl