Georg Kolberger

Georg Kolberger († around 1495) was elected bishop ( Elekt ) of Gurk in 1490 .

Life

Georg Kolberger was of middle-class descent and the son of Paul Kolberger, a schoolmaster in Altötting. Like his brother Johann, Georg also seized the clergy; his brother Wolfgang Kolberger became an influential politician as Chancellor Duke Georgs von Bayern-Landshut . Georg Kolberger received the parish Eggenfelden near Passau between 1471 and 1472, and in 1481 he is attested as the local pastor and dean and was raised to the nobility.

After the death of Gurk Bishop Lorenz von Freiberg , the diocese remained orphaned for three years. The Emperor and Archbishop of Salzburg proposed different candidates. The Archbishop's chosen one was Georg Kolberger, who was recommended to him by the Bishop of Chiemsee. On September 7, 1490, the Archbishop of Salzburg awarded him the diocese of Gurk. However, he never took possession of his cathedral and ultimately the candidate of the emperor Raimund Peraudi was elected as the new bishop. Georg Kolberger may have voluntarily given up or been forced to give up.

Georg Kolberger remained pastor of Eggenfelden. In 1497 his brother Johann was named as pastor of Eggenfelden and the name Georg is already missing in a family certificate from 1495, presumably he was no longer alive at this point in time. According to the necrology of the Raitenhaslach monastery , the "chosen and confirmed" Bishop of Gurk died on November 3rd of an unknown year.

literature

• Jakob Obersteiner: The bishops of Gurk. 1072–1822 (= From Research and Art. 5, ISSN  0067-0642 ). Verlag des Geschichtsverein für Kärnten, Klagenfurt 1969, pp. 259–260.