Georg Altdorfer

Georg Altdorfer (* 1437 in Landshut ; † May 2, 1495 in Salzburg ) was 1477-1495 bishop of Chiemsee .

Life

Georg's father was Landshut councilor Hans Altdorfer. Georg studied from 1446 in Vienna and then from 1452 in Bologna , on 29 June 1456 where he became Dr. iur. can. received his doctorate. As a stipend that he was provost Traberg transmitted. In 1476 he was promoted to Salzburg chancellor and in the same year received the parish of Laufen , which he renounced two years later.

After the death of the Chiemsee Bishop Bernhard von Kraiburg , the Salzburg Archbishop Bernhard von Rohr appointed Georg Altdorfer as his successor on October 27, 1477. The episcopal ordination took place on March 1, 1478. In the first year of his office as bishop he had to fight a dispute with the Salzburg cathedral provost over the position of the Salzburg suffragan bishops before the provost of the cathedral. Since he enjoyed the special trust of Archbishop Rohr, he accompanied him to Freising in 1478 and to Landshut in 1479, where advice was given to averting the Turkish threat . Also in 1478 he accompanied Bernhard von Rohr to Graz, where with King Friedrich III. Talks took place that led to the resignation of Archbishop Rohr. Since resignation was only possible with the consent of the state parliament, the archbishop was reprimanded by Georg Altdorfer and other companions. After Rohr soon withdrew his resignation, there were further disputes with Friedrich III., Which were mediated by Georg Altdorfer in negotiations in Vienna. After Rohr finally resigned, the Pope's administrator Johann III. Beckenschlager took the oath of obedience to Georg Altdorfer on March 25, 1485. As Beckenschlager complained a short time later about the cathedral chapter, Georg Altdorfer and the Augsburg bishop were commissioned by the Pope to visit the cathedral chapter. Since the latter had nevertheless elected Provost Christoph Ebran von Wildenberg as counter-archbishop in 1487, a delegation from Beckenschlagers, to which Georg Altdorfer also belonged, negotiated a peace with Duke Georg von Bayern-Landshut .

At the Frankfurt Reichstag in 1489, Georg Altdorfer protested against being included among the imperial princes and was therefore exempted from imperial taxes. In 1490 he consecrated the newly elected Archbishop of Salzburg, Friedrich V von Schaunberg . Together with this he also took part in the provincial council in Mühldorf am Inn in 1490 . Probably in 1491 he obtained a canonical in Freising and later the archdeaconate of Gmünd in Upper Carinthia . On February 8, 1495, he consecrated Archbishop Sigmund II of Hollenegg . A short time later he suffered a stroke on the Saalach Bridge near Salzburg on the trip to the Worms Reichstag . After his death on May 2, 1495, he was buried in the Altdorf Chapel of St. Martin's Church in Landshut . The grave monument made of red marble was created by the Augsburg sculptor Hanns Peurlin the Middle .

literature

• Erwin Naimer: Aldorfer, Georg († 1495) . In: Erwin Gatz : The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire 1448–1648 . ISBN 3-428-08422-5 , p. 19

Web links

• Entry about Georg Altdorfer on catholic-hierarchy.org

predecessor	Office	successor
Bernhard von Kraiburg	Bishop of Chiemsee 1477–1495	Ludwig Ebmer