Johann Jakob von Lamberg

Johann Jakob von Lamberg, Freiherr von Ortenegg and Ottenstein - also Hans Jakob von Lamberg and Latinized Johannes Jacob de Lamberg (born March 27, 1561 ; † February 7, 1630 in Strasbourg in Carinthia ) was an Austrian Roman Catholic theologian, Canon of Salzburg and Passau as well as book collectors. As Johann VII. He was Counter-Reformation Bishop of Gurk in Carinthia.

Life

Johann Jakob von Lamberg, like his ten years younger brother Karl von Lamberg and his seven years younger brother Georg Sigmund (1568–1632) as the son of Sigmund vom Lamberg (1536–1619), became the highest land stableman in Carniola , and he has been with him since 1558 married Siguna Eleonora von Kirchberg and Weißenhorn (1541–1576), a daughter of Johann Jakob Fugger , born. He received a strictly Catholic upbringing and at the age of fifteen he became domiciliary of Salzburg. In 1578 he was sent to the local cathedral canon and by the apostolic nuncio as a pupil to study at the Collegium Germanicum in Rome, where the later Salzburg archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau also stayed. After completing his philosophical and theological studies, he returned to his homeland and was ordained a priest on May 1, 1585 in Passau, where he also received the canonical at the cathedral. In 1587 he became pastor in Feichten an der Alz in Upper Bavaria.

After Raitenau was elected Archbishop of Salzburg in 1587, Lamberg went to Rome to obtain the retirement age for the new archbishop . After 1595 he received the parish of Kirchberg am Wagram in Lower Austria, which belonged to the Diocese of Passau . He was also for a time vicar general and official of Prince-Bishop Urban von Trennbach . An order from Emperor Rudolf II took him back to Rome in 1597 to run the election of Coadjutor of Passau as part of the Passau diocese dispute against the Wittelsbach candidate for Archduke Leopold of Austria . In Rome he worked in 1598, during the vacancy of the Passau bishopric, as the head of the Austrian-minded party. In the same year he was also envoy of the Archbishop of Salzburg to the Reichstag in Regensburg. For his work in the Passau diocese dispute, Johann Jakob von Lamberg was appointed to the Privy Council by Archduke Ferdinand in 1601 and appointed Chief Steward of the Archduke's two brothers ( Leopold and Karl Joseph ) (After Karl Joseph had become Bishop of Breslau, Lamberg worked for three years as his advisor).

On September 26, 1603 he was ordained bishop of Gurk in the parish church of Salzburg by Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau.

In 1608 he fell out of favor with his metropolitan, the Salzburg archbishop, after he sent Johannes Fenzonius on an ad limina visit to Rome because of his indispensability as Passau's chief court master. According to Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, this right would have been granted to him.

In 1613 Lamberg was appointed governor and court chamber president of the inner Austrian government in Graz by Archduke Ferdinand, later Emperor Ferdinand II . This function required him to stay outside his diocese for a long time. Due to various intrigues and the high costs of keeping his court in Graz, he asked Emperor Ferdinand II to remove him from this office in 1621.

In his will, written as early as 1622, according to which his brothers and nephews should receive eight equal parts of his personal property, Lamberg assigned legacies for soul masses to the churches of Feichten and Kirchberg .

On February 7, 1630, Bishop Lamberg died in his Carinthian residence in Strasbourg, he was buried in front of the Marien Altar near the Holy Cross Chapel in the parish church and the collegiate monastery of St. Nikolai in Strasbourg .

After the archbishop of Salzburg, Paris von Lodron , intervened in the inheritance dispute in June 1645 , the Count of Lamberg Johann Maximilian (a. ) Had his inheritance (land, which mainly came from his father's inheritance received in 1620, and money) Grandson Johann Jakobs), Johann Wilhelm, Alphons and Konstantin von Lamberg.

The library of the literarily and humanistically educated bishop, which was comprised of mainly Italian (and, in contrast to other collections of his time, also other non-Latin literature) of the 16th century , the basis of which he had laid out as a student through acquisitions in Rome and later through exchange, purchase, received donations and probably also inheritance, was brought to Munich during the secularization of 1803 (as part of the prince-bishop's court library brought to Passau by Johann Jakob's great-nephew Johann Philipp von Steyr). Around 740 of the almost 1,100 printed works from Lamberg's precious book collection later came to the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Lamberg, Johann Freiherr von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 14th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1865, p. 29 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Anton Victor Felgel:  Lamberg, from . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, pp. 538-540.
• Jakob Obersteiner: The bishops of Gurk. 1072–1822 (= From Research and Art. 5, ISSN  0067-0642 ). Verlag des Geschichtsverein für Kärnten, Klagenfurt 1969, pp. 351–373.
• Herta Hageneder:  Lamberg, v .. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 427 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Irmgard Bezzel: The library of the Gurk bishop Johann Jakob von Lamberg (1561-1630). A library of Romanesque prints from the 16th century. In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade - Frankfurt edition. Volume 89, (November 5) 1968 (= Archive for the history of the book industry. Volume 62), pp. 2919–2928.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Irmgard Bezzel: The library of the Gurk bishop Johann Jakob von Lamberg (1561-1630). A library of Romanesque prints from the 16th century. 1968.
2. ^ Felix Stieve: Wittelsbach letters from the years 1590-1610. Volume 4. Munich 1889, p. 82, note 2.