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Franziskus Fröhlicher (* 1774 in Bellach ; † April 7, 1848 in Schloss Bettwiesen ) was a Swiss clergyman.

Life

After Franziskus Fröhlicher finished his high school studies in Solothurn , he took solemn religious vows as a Benedictine in the Fischingen monastery in 1794 ; shortly afterwards he was given the management of the convent school. In 1802 he was made subprior and in 1815 he was promoted to prior .

In the monastery he was professor of philosophy and theology for the young members of the monastery. He was a member of the Catholic administrative council of the canton of Thurgau , and resigned from this council in the early 1830s.

In 1836 he was unanimously elected abbot by his friars . The management of the monastery at that time became more and more difficult because the Thurgau government appointed the Hofener peace justice Johann Baptist Ruckstuhl as administrator for the monastery, under which the economic development deteriorated, as he already had a deficit of 2,500 guilders in his first annual account exhibited. With the passing of the Novices Act, which imposed almost insurmountable obstacles on the admission of new novices , later it was completely forbidden, it became clear that the monastery should be closed.

Due to his poor health, Abbot Franziskus Fröhlicher drove to the Bettwiesen Castle, which belongs to the monastery, to relax on April 4, 1848, but died there on April 7, 1848 of dropsy.

Abbot Franziskus Fröhlicher was the last abbot of the Benedictine monastery in Fischingen, founded in 1138, and only a few months after his death the monastery was closed on June 27, 1848 by the Thurgau Grand Council and the buildings were privatized.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich August Schmidt, Bernhard Friedrich Voight: New nekrolog der Deutschen ... BF Voigt, 1850 ( google.de [accessed on October 20, 2017]).
  2. ↑ monastery administration, -aufhebung and -liquidation, 1803 - 1919. In: query-staatsarchiv.tg.ch. Retrieved October 21, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Swiss Church Newspaper . Räben, 1840 ( google.de [accessed on October 21, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Swiss Church Newspaper . Räben, 1837 ( google.de [accessed October 21, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Happy, Francis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH 1774
PLACE OF BIRTH Bellach
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1848
Place of death Bed meadows