Johann Peter von Burmann

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Johann Peter von Burmann (* 1642 in Bonn ; † February 1, 1696 in Liège ) was a German politician and auxiliary bishop in Cologne .

Life

Born as the son of the Electorate of Cologne Vice Chancellor Peter Burmann and Gertrud Palandt, he had other siblings, including the Trier auxiliary bishop Maximilian Heinrich and the Bonn dean Adolf Sigismund . Studying in Cologne was followed by a doctorate to become a Dr. jur. utr. in Pont-à-Mousson . Since 1660 Electoral Cologne State Secretary and Privy Councilor, he was arrested in Vienna in the summer of 1674 while Franz Egon von Fürstenberg tried to free himself . In 1679 at the instigation of Fürstenberg canon and later also cathedral scholaster in Liège, he received the tonsure and thus entry into the clergy in 1679. With the retreat of Archbishop Maximilian Heinrich from Bavaria to Cologne, the Fürstenberg ministry fell apart and Burmann lost his influence. After he had rejoined the Electoral Cologne State Council in 1684, he distanced himself from the Fürstenberg policy and was raised to the nobility with his brothers in 1687. Since he was a supporter of Cologne's Archbishop Joseph Clemens of Bavaria in the bishops' elections of 1688 and 1694 , the latter appointed him auxiliary bishop in Cologne in 1694. Appointed titular bishop of Thermopylae and auxiliary bishop in Cologne by the Pope on September 13, 1694 , he received episcopal ordination in January 1695, but died after a year of intense activity.

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SURNAME Burmann, Johann Peter von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician and auxiliary bishop in Cologne
DATE OF BIRTH 1642
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1696
Place of death Liege