Johann Nepomuk August Ungelter von Deissenhausen

Episcopal consecration in Trier Cathedral on August 29, 1779. Contemporary oil painting by an unknown artist.

Johann Nepomuk August Ungelter Freiherr von Deissenhausen (born February 20, 1731 in Höchstädt an der Donau , † January 26, 1804 in Augsburg ) was auxiliary bishop and vicar general in the diocese of Augsburg .

Life

The Ungelter had been high officials in Höchstädt since 1641. His grandfather served as his father's successor from 1699 to 1701 as the provincial bailiff in Höchstädt, but then entered the service of the prince-bishop of Augsburg.

From 1741 to 1747 Johann Nepomuk August attended grammar school in Dillingen and in 1749 became canon at Augsburg Cathedral . In 1755 he was ordained a priest . From 1760 to 1768 he was dean of the cathedral and from 1768 to 1804 cathedral provost, secret councilor of Augsburg and governor in the government, since the prince-bishop of Augsburg, Clemens Wenzeslaus of Saxony , was both archbishop and elector of Trier and spent most of his time in his electorate Trier stopped. His episcopal ordination in Trier Cathedral as titular bishop of Pella and auxiliary bishop of Augsburg on August 29, 1779 was carried out by the same Clemens Wenzeslaus, elector-archbishop of Trier, prince-bishop of Augsburg. 1785–1795 Ungelter was also vicar general of Augsburg.

On April 6, 1791 he was registered under the registration number. Admitted to the Leopoldina in 930 with the academic surname Eudemus IV . At his request, he was buried next to his siblings in the Catholic cemetery in Augsburg . The Freiherr-von-Ungelter-Strasse in Höchstädt ad Donau was named after him.

literature

• Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 238 .
• Joachim Seiler: The Augsburg Cathedral Chapter from the Thirty Years War to Secularization (1648–1802). Studies on the history of its constitution and its members (= Munich theological studies. 1: Historical department. 29). EOS, St. Ottilien 1989, ISBN 3-88096-129-8 , pp. 871-878, (at the same time: Munich, University, dissertation, 1987).
• Peter Rummel : The Augsburg bishops, auxiliary bishops and vicars general from the 17th century to the 2nd Vatican Council. In: Yearbook of the Association for the History of the Augsburg Diocese. 24, 1990, ISSN  0341-9916 , pp. 25-114, pp. 79 f.

Web links

• Member entry by Johann Nepomuk Frhr. von Ungelter at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on February 21, 2017.
• Works by and about Johann Nepomuk August Ungelter von Deissenhausen  in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Complete diary of R. König. Election of Leopold des Zweyten, 1791, p.15
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Bulletin of the City of Höchstädt, 2006 19th Volume, No. 8, p. 4