Johann Nepomuk Amberg

Johann Nepomuk Amberg

Johann Nepomuk Amberg (born January 28, 1802 in Innsbruck , † March 16, 1882 in Feldkirch ) was an Austrian priest and politician. He was a member of the Tyrolean state parliament and the Vorarlberg state parliament , elected member of the Austrian House of Representatives of the Reichsrat and auxiliary bishop in Brixen .

Life

Johann Amberg was born as the son of the master baker Josef Amberg and his wife Crescentia Kössl. He studied theology at the seminary Brixen and received on 19 December 1824, the priestly ordination . In 1825 he worked for four months as an assistant priest in Axams , after which he was employed as an assistant priest in Innsbruck-Mariahilf from 1825 to 1828 . After attending the Frintaneum Priestly Education Institute in Vienna in 1828 , he completed a teaching course at the institution for the deaf and dumb in Vienna from 1829 to 1830. From 1830 to 1835 he was head of the deaf-mute institute in Brixen and in 1835 he moved to Hall in Tyrol as head of the deaf-mute institute . He returned to the priesthood in 1837 and worked as pastor and dean in Hall until 1841 . After that he was employed as the parish priest and dean in Innsbruck Cathedral from 1845 to 1850 . In 1850 he became a kk school councilor for the elementary schools in North Tyrol and kk elementary school inspector for Tyrol and Vorarlberg. In 1853 he moved to Brixen as cathedral capitular and canon , where between 1853 and 1861 he worked as the reign of the seminary in Brixen. In addition, he was employed there from 1854 to 1855 as school supervisor of the diocese of Brixen, from 1855 cathedral scholastic and diocesan studies commissioner of the cathedral chapter. On January 11, 1861, Amberg was appointed dean of the cathedral, and on April 5, 1863 he was promoted to provost in Bressanone. As a result, Amberg worked from November 8, 1865 to March 16, 1882 as Vicar General for Vorarlberg. On September 25, 1865, he was preconized as titular bishop of Europus and auxiliary bishop in Bressanone and received episcopal ordination on November 19 of the same year by the bishop of Brixen, Vinzenz Gasser . Furthermore, he worked from 1870 to 1882 as a school supervisor for Vorarlberg.

In the political field, Amberg was active as a member of the state parliament in Tyrol from 1848 to 1853 and from 1859 to 1861, in 1865 he succeeded Joseph Feßler as a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament. He held the mandate of the virile voice and exercised his mandate until his death in 1882. Amberg was also elected by the Landtag as a member of the House of Representatives of the Reichsrat at the end of 1872, but he resigned his mandate after just one month, whereby his resignation in the Reichsrat was announced at the meeting on January 15, 1873. Amberg never appeared in the Reichsrat or was sworn in.

Works

• The benefit of an educational institution for the deaf and dumb. Shown at the opening of the Provincial Deaf-Mute Institute. Brixen 1830
• Instructions for object, thinking, speaking and calculation lessons in elementary school. Innsbruck 1853
• History of the foundations of the parish church of St. Nicholas in Hall
• Greetings in this image of grace (lyrics)

literature

• Stenographic minutes of the House of Representatives of the 7th session (index)
• Walter Zirker: Vorarlberger in parliament and government. An encyclopedia of politicians from Frankfurt am Main, Kremsier, Vienna, Strasbourg, Luxembourg and Brussels (1848-2000) (= Association for Vorarlberg Educational and Student History [Ed.]: Alemannia Studens. Communications from the Association for Vorarlberger Bildungs - and student history . Special volume 6). S.Roderer , Regensburg 2001, ISBN 3-89783-400-6 ( full text as PDF on the website of the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv ).

Web links

• Entry on Johann Nepomuk Amberg on catholic-hierarchy.org
• Biography of Johann Amberg in the parliamentary documents of the Vorarlberg Landtag.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 53rd session of the 7th session on January 15, 1873