Ignaz Feigerle

Bishop Ignaz Feigerle (lithograph by Eduard Kaiser , 1856)

Glass window in Linz Cathedral: Ignaz Feigerle as the right of the three central bishops with miter; to the left of him Bishop Athanasius Zuber with beard; In the center, Bishop Franz Joseph Rudigier with a shepherd's staff.

Ignaz Feigerle (born April 7, 1795 in Biskupstwo , Moravia , † September 27, 1863 in Ochsenburg ) was a Catholic theologian and bishop of the diocese of St. Pölten .

Life

Feigerle studied at the Frintaneum in Vienna and was a court chaplain of the court and castle parishes . In 1825 he became a professor of pastoral theology at the University of Olomouc . In 1829 he went to the University of Vienna , in 1846 he became rector there .

In 1851 Feigerle became Bishop of St. Pölten. In 1858 he founded the Hippolytus , a scientific diocesan journal, which was published by Matthäus Binder and Anton Kerschbaumer . In 1856 he founded the episcopal boys' seminary "Marianum" in Krems an der Donau , which in 1871 moved to Seitenstetten .

There is a stained glass window from the 19th century in Linz's Mariä-Konstanz-Dom , which shows the laying of the foundation stone on May 1st, 1862 and on which the present bishops Franz Joseph Rudigier , Ignaz Feigerle and Athanasius Zuber are depicted.

literature

• Anton Kerschbaumer : Bishop Feigerle, portrayed from life , Vienna, 1864; Complete scan of the book
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Feigerle, Ignaz . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 14th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1865, pp. 443–446 ( digitized version ).
• R .:  Feigerle, Ignaz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, p. 278.
• Feigerle Ignaz. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 291.
• Ekkart Sauser:  Ignaz Feigerle. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 20, Bautz, Nordhausen 2002, ISBN 3-88309-091-3 , Sp. 480-481.

Web links

• Entry on Ignaz Feigerle in the database of the state's memory for the history of the state of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Website for the window in Linz Cathedral  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

predecessor	Office	successor
Anton Alois Buchmayer	Bishop of St. Pölten 1852–1863	Joseph Feßler