Johann Philipp Jakob von Horn-Goldschmidt

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Johann Philipp Jakob von Horn-Goldschmidt (born August 26, 1724 in Cologne ; † October 1, 1796 there ) was a priest and vicar general in the Archdiocese of Cologne .

Life

Horn-Goldschmidt was the third of four children of an old Cologne Vogts and feudal family near Neuss. Born in the parish of St. Aposteln , he lost his parents at a very early age, so that he had to earn his living while studying theology as a teacher at the Montaner high school. The archiepiscopal authority took his financial situation into account and subsequently released him from attending the seminary , as he was obviously unable to raise the necessary funds. When he did not succeed in obtaining a pründe necessary for consecration, two respected relatives, namely the Cologne mayors Kerig and Herweg, provided him with two capital which together yielded the minimum annual sum of 62 Reichsthalers. So he was able to receive the ordination of subdeacons on December 23, 1747 and the ordination of priests on May 19, 1748 .

He seems to have had other patrons, including possibly the imperial counts of Königsegg-Rothenfels, because cathedral dean Meinrad von Königsegg-Rothenfels acquired the parish of St. Maria im Pesch (Cologne) and the associated cathedral vicarage on July 11, 1748 .

Shortly after his election as Archbishop, Archbishop Maximilian Friedrich von Königsegg-Rothenfels brought Horn-Goldschmidt to the Bonn court as clerical conference counselor and trainee lawyer and thus to the government of Kurköln . In the fall of 1761 he traveled to Rome , where he obtained the papal confirmation and the pallium for his archbishop. Here, in Rome, he also received his doctorate for Dr. jur. utr.

After Horn-Goldschmidt had resigned to his pastor on June 25, 1762 , he was accepted into the Cologne cathedral chapter on August 23, 1763 , although the Prime Minister of the Electorate of Cologne, Caspar Anton von Belderbusch , seems to have had a hand in it. On August 26, 1763, the archbishop appointed him vicar general .

After the death of Archbishop Max Friedrich on April 16, 1784, elected vicar of the capitular , the new archbishop Maximilian Franz of Austria also appointed him vicar general. While Horn-Goldschmidt's relationship with Archbishop von Königsegg was consistently good, there were increasing tensions between him and Archbishop Max Franz, the escalation of which his death prevented.

When the French marched into Cologne in September 1794, the vicar general fled to Arnsberg together with the cathedral chapter , but returned in 1795 with an entry permit from the republic and continued to administer the archbishopric on the left bank of the Rhine until his death.

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See also

predecessor Office successor
Peter Gerwin von Franken-Siersdorf Vicar General of Cologne
1763–1796 		Werner Marx
personal data
SURNAME Horn-Goldschmidt, Johann Philipp Jakob von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Vicar General in Cologne
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1724
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1796
Place of death Cologne