Joseph Bullinger

Franz Joseph Johann Nepomuk Bullinger , Abbé Bullinger , (born January 29, 1744 in Unterkochen ; † March 9, 1810 in Diepoldshofen near Leutkirch) was a German theologian.

Life

Bullinger was the son of a wealthy paper manufacturer. He studied philosophy, mathematics and theology in Ingolstadt. From 1761 he was a novice of the Jesuit order in Landsberg am Lech, 1768/70 Magister at the Jesuit high school St. Michael in Munich, 1771 he worked in Freiburg / Breisgau, 1772 at the Jesuit college in Neuburg an der Donau . After the order was abolished (1773), he was a private teacher for the aristocrats and commoners.

From 1776 at the latest he was educator and court master of Count Leopold Ferdinand von Arco . Bullinger was also close friends with the members of the Mozart family. He supported Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's trip to Paris in 1777 and reported on it. In July 1778, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote a letter to Bullinger with the request that Mozart's sister Nannerl and his father Leopold prepare verbally about the serious illness and death of his mother (July 3) in Paris.

Bullinger left Salzburg in the direction of Munich around 1784. In 1786 he visited the Mozarts in Salzburg, in February 1787 a meeting in Munich is documented. Later he was court master of the Swabian count and chief executive of Waldburg-Zeil . In 1803 he was given the patronage parish in Diepoldshofen , where he worked as a pastor until his death.

literature

• Ernst Fritz Schmid : The Mozart friend Joseph Bullinger . In: Mozart Yearbook 1952 : Salzburg 1953, pages 17–23.
• Heinz Schuler: Bullinger, Franz Joseph Johann Nepomuk . In: Gerhard Ammerer and Rudolph Angermüller (eds.): Salzburger Mozart Lexikon . Bad Honnef 2005, page 65.