Franz von Bruchmann

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Franz Joseph Vinzenz Ritter von Bruchmann (born April 5, 1798 in Vienna , † May 23, 1867 in Gars am Inn ) was a Redemptorist .

Life

Bruchmann was the son of the wholesale merchant and director of the Austrian National Bank Johann Christian Maria (Edler 1818 heir) Ritter von Bruchmann and Justina (née Weis). His grandfather was Christian August Joseph Bruchmann, businessman and factory owner in Cologne, married to Sybille, née Offermann. His father came from Cologne and was one of the richest men in Vienna, the director of the Vienna National Bank with the longest period of service (1821 until his death in 1849) and the patron of the composer Franz Schubert and the painter Leopold Kupelwieser . For years, the so-called Schubertiads, music and reading evenings, focused on Franz Schubert, took place in the Bruchmanns house in Vienna.

At the beginning of his studies he was with Johann Chrysostomus Senn , Leopold Kupelwieser and Moritz von Schwind a member of the circle of friends around Franz Schubert. During his studies in 1819 he became a member of the Vienna Burschenschaftlichen Kreis . Bruchmann's youngest sister Justina († 1830) was temporarily engaged to Schubert's friend Franz von Schober .

In 1827, after completing his studies in Vienna and Erlangen , where he made the acquaintance of Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and August von Platen , he received his doctorate on May 15, 1827. jur. joined the Austrian civil service and on June 25, 1827 he married Juliana Theresia von Weyrother, one of the witnesses was the Imperial and Royal Legation Councilor Friedrich von Schlegl. In 1831, after the death of his wife Juliana Theresia von Weyrother (October 26, 1830, at the birth of his son Johann Baptiste Maria Ritter von Bruchmann), Franz Seraph von Bruchmann went to Rome with his friend Eduard Jakob von Steinle , entered the Congregatio Sanctissimi Redemptoris and was ordained a priest in Graz in 1833 . He followed his friend and brother-in-law Rudolf Ritter von Smetana. In 1841, at the request of King Ludwig I, he founded the Redemptorist branch in Altötting (Upper Bavaria) and worked from there to spread his congregation in Germany. Around 1847 he also carried out several exorcisms on the future visionary Louise Beck . 1847-1854 he was Provincial of the Austrian and German, 1855/56 the German and 1856-1865 the Upper German branch of the Redemptorist Order.

Franz von Bruchmann was considered an imposing person, very intelligent, great speaker and was an advocate of the natural religions from the start. Bruchmann was a good superior. The sources emphasize his “eminent government talent”, his “cleverness and circumspection”, his “business acumen”, but also his “fatherly care” and the “art of leading souls”. He was always considered fair.

Franz Schubert set five of his poems to music:

  • To the Leyer (D 737),
  • In the Haine (D 738),
  • At the lake (D 746),
  • Sister greeting (D 762),
  • The Angry Bard (D 785).

Remarks

  1. ↑ 1847 hereditary title
  2. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 97-98.
  3. ↑ Justine von Bruchmann's widower, Leopold Kupelwieser was best man on November 19, 1828

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personal data
SURNAME Bruchmann, Franz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bruchmann, Franz Joseph Vinzenz Ritter von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Redemptorist
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1867
Place of death Gars on the Inn