Johann Michael Raich
Johann Michael Raich (born January 17, 1832 in Ottobeuren , † March 28, 1907 in Mainz ) was a German Catholic priest , Mainz canon and publicist.
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He was born as the son of master tailor Bernhard Raich and his wife Franziska, geb. Sommer, born in Ottobeuren, Bavarian Swabia , attended St. Stephan high school in Augsburg and, after graduating from high school, studied at the Collegium Germanicum in Rome from October 17, 1852 . There he obtained a doctorate in theology and was ordained a priest on May 29, 1858.
On the occasion of a visit to Rome by the Mainz bishop Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler , he got to know the young priest Johann Michael Raich and brought him to Mainz as his secretary on November 1, 1859. He remained in this office until Bishop Ketteler's death in 1877. As early as 1867 he had appointed him cathedral vicar and in 1870 he accompanied his pastor to Rome to the First Vatican Council .
Raich became cathedral capitular in 1890 under the new bishop Paul Leopold Haffner , whose successor Heinrich Brück appointed him dean of the cathedral on April 11, 1900 .
He died on Maundy Thursday in 1907 and was buried on Holy Saturday, March 30, in front of the Aureus Chapel (destroyed in 1944) in the main cemetery in Mainz .
In addition to his work in the diocese administration, Raich was in charge of editing the “Frankfurt contemporary brochures” from 1886 , and also that of the “ Katholik ” from 1891, and he also wrote his own theological writings (sometimes under the pseudonym Otto Beuren). He also published the spiritual legacy of Bishop Ketteler in print.
literature
- Sigrid Duchhardt-Bösken : Raich, Johann Michael , in: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon , Volume 7 (1994), pp. 1275–1276
- Ludwig Lenhart : The Ketteler secretary Johann Michael Raich Vaticanum letters to the Mainz cathedral dean Dr. Johann Baptist Heinrich , in: Archive for Middle Rhine Church History , Annual Volume 1954, pp. 208–266.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Raich, Johann Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German priest and canon of Mainz |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 17, 1832 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ottobeuren |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 28, 1907 |
| Place of death | Mainz |