Johann Alois Schneider

Johann Alois Schneider (born April 12, 1752 in Brno , † December 22, 1818 in Dresden ) was a German Catholic bishop .

Life

Grave of Johann Alois Schneider in the old Catholic cemetery in Dresden

Johann Alois studied with the Jesuits in Olomouc . In 1768 he entered their order. After the order was abolished in 1773, he continued his studies in Prague . In 1776 he was ordained a priest in the Archdiocese of Prague and employed as a teacher at the Prague grammar school.

At the suggestion of the Apostolic Vicar in the Saxon Hereditary Lands Franz Herz , he was commissioned in 1787 to go to Leipzig as a pastor . In Leipzig he was one of the most popular pulpit speakers, and not just among Catholics. In 1792 he was called to Dresden as court preacher . In 1798 Amalie von Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler , the wife of the Saxon elector, elected him to be her confessor . In 1801 she was followed by the Elector Friedrich August III. self.

After the death of the Apostolic Vicar Herz, the Elector appointed him his successor in 1801. During Schneider's term of office, the Peace of Posen falls , which brought legal equality between Catholic and Protestant citizens in Saxony. This practically recognized the Apostolic Vicariate as the highest spiritual authority for Catholics in the Saxon hereditary lands (excluding Upper Lusatia, where Catholics had long enjoyed recognition). The restrictions on the Catholic Church have been lifted.

In 1807 Schneider organized the consistory in Bautzen . At the same time he was given the censorship of the Catholic writings published in the Kingdom of Saxony . In 1809 he received from the cathedral chapter Erfurt the honorary doctorate .

In 1816 he was given the episcopal dignity that the previous Vicars Apostolic had not received. He was Bishop Franz Georg Lock , Domdekan of Bautzen, in the chapel of the Taschenbergpalais to the titular bishop of Argos consecrated.

The king had the tomb in the Old Catholic Cemetery in Dresden-Friedrichstadt built by Franz Pettrich at his own expense . The deceased is guided by the allegory of faith in the gate of the high-rise city, where the genius of eternity receives him to crown him with the star wreath. The righteousness that weighs the good works makes the scales sink, since the genius of eternity already places the star wreath on the head of the deceased. The advance through the dark valley of death to the eternal light is excellent. Below the relief on the base are the badges of the episcopal office: crook , miter and stole , as well as goblet, grapes and ears of wheat.

See also

• List of the bishops of Meissen

literature

• Siegfried Seifert :  Tailor Johann Aloys. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 10, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7001-2186-5 , p. 380 f. (Direct links on p. 380 , p. 381 ).
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Schneider, Johann Alois . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 31st part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1876, pp. 22–24 ( digitized version ).
• Franz Heinrich Reusch:  Schneider, Johann Aloys . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 125.
• Georgios Fatouros :  Schneider, Johann Aloys. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 9, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-058-1 , Sp. 551-552.
• Heinrich Meier: The Apostolic Vicariate in the Saxon Hereditary Lands (= studies on the Catholic diocese and monastery history 24). Leipzig 1981, pp. 26-30.
• Siegfried Seifert: Schneider, Johann Aloys. In: Erwin Gatz (Ed.): The bishops of the German-speaking countries 1785/1803 to 1945. A biographical lexicon. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-428-05447-4 , pp. 666-667.

Web links

• Entry on Johann Alois Schneider on catholic-hierarchy.org