Jakob Laurenz Studach

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bishop Jakob Laurenz Studach

Jakob Laurenz Studach , also Jakob Lorenz Studach (born January 25, 1796 in Altstätten , Switzerland ; † May 9, 1873 in Stockholm , Sweden ) was Apostolic Vicar of Sweden and Titular Bishop of Orthosias in Caria .

Live and act

Jakob Laurenz Studach was the son of Matthäus Studach and his wife Magdalena geb. Hasler from Altstätten in the St. Gallen Rhine Valley . He graduated from the canton high school and studied medicine at the University of Vienna . Here he came into contact with the convert and Catholic priest Zacharias Werner (1768-1823), who belonged to the circle around St. Clement Maria Hofbauer (1751-1820). Studach decided under their influence to study theology. From 1817 he attended the Landshut University , where he became a student of the later Bishop Johann Michael Sailer (1751-1832), one of the outstanding theologians of his time.

On his mediation he took over from May 1818 to November 1819 the position of educator or private tutor for the younger children of the poet and convert Count Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg (1750-1819), at Gut Sondermühlen, near Melle , Lower Saxony .

On February 13, 1820, he was ordained a priest in Landshut and became a clergyman in the Eichstätt diocese . Again at the mediation of Sailer Studach worked as an educator in the house of the nominal sovereign, Eugène de Beauharnais, Duke of Leuchtenberg and Prince of Eichstätt . He was the stepson of Emperor Napoleon I and son-in-law of the Bavarian King Maximilian I Joseph .

When his pupil Princess Joséphine de Beauharnais (1807–1876) married the Swedish-Norwegian Crown Prince and later King Oskar I in 1823 , she wished to take Jakob Laurenz Studach with her as a confidante and pastor. The priest moved with the princess to Stockholm, where he worked both as court chaplain and looked after the small and strictly restricted Catholic community. In 1828 he taught the French Charles de Montalembert (1810–1870), later famous as a politician , whose parents were in Stockholm at the time, in German philosophy.

Title page of Studach's collection of poems “Swedish Folk Harp ” , 1826

On August 10, 1833, Pope Gregory XVI. Studach to the Apostolic Vicar of Sweden , which at that time also Norway belonged; In 1838 he awarded him the Knight's Cross of the Order of Gregory . In 1844 Joséphine de Beauharnais became Queen of Sweden. Both she and her confidante Jakob Laurenz Studach supported the Catholic Church to the best of their ability and were very committed. In 1862 Pope Pius IX appointed the Apostolic Vicar to Titular Bishop of Orthosias in Caria . The Curia Cardinal Karl August von Reisach granted him episcopal consecration on June 1, 1862.

Jakob Laurenz Studach served as Apostolic Vicar of Sweden until his death in 1873; Queen Joséphine, who was no longer ruling at the time, died in 1876.

The bishop wrote numerous articles about the religious conditions in his mission area for German church papers. Due to the resulting fame in German-speaking countries, he was able to collect many donations there and had Catholic churches built in Stockholm (1835–37), Oslo (1850–56) and Gothenburg (1862). Studach translated a catechism, a prayer book and the devotional book “Goffine's Handpostille” from German into Swedish, as well as some Swedish works into German, the best known of which is the collection of poems “Swedish Folk Harp ” , 1826. and the translation of “Sämund's Edda des Wise” “ From Icelandic . In 1856 he published a work on the history of religion about the Germanic peoples with the title "The original religion, or the discovered original alphabet" .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Source on the early career of Bishop Studach
  2. ↑ Source on the teaching of Charles de Montalembert
  3. ↑ Complete scan of the volume of poetry “Swedish Folk Harp” , 1826
  4. ↑ Complete scan of Studach's translation "Sämund's Edda des Weisen" , 1829
  5. ↑ Complete scan of Studach's work “Die Urreligion , or the discovered Uralphabet” , 1856
personal data
SURNAME Studach, Jakob Laurenz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Studach, Jakob Lorenz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Bishop in Sweden, Vicar Apostolic
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH Altstätten , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1873
Place of death Stockholm