Joseph of Hohenzollern-Hechingen

Prince Joseph Wilhelm Friedrich von Hohenzollern-Hechingen (born May 20, 1776 in Opava ; † September 26, 1836 at Oliva Castle ) was Prince-Bishop of Warmia .

family

Joseph von Hohenzollern-Hechingen came from a Catholic line of the princely house of Hohenzollern . He was the eldest son and second of six children of General Friedrich Anton von Hohenzollern-Hechingen (1726-1812) and Countess Ernestine-Josepha von Sobeck-Kornitz (1753-1825).

Joseph's obituary announced by his niece Marie, daughter of his brother Hermann von Hohenzollern-Hechingen

He first attended the military academy in Vienna and from 1787 to 1791 the Karlsschule in Stuttgart . Through his uncle Karl von Hohenzollern-Hechingen (1732–1803), who was Prince-Bishop of Warmia from 1795 to 1803, he became aware of the spiritual career.

In 1800 Joseph became a priest in Warmia, in 1803 the last Commendatary Abbot of the Oliva Monastery and in 1808 Bishop of the Diocese of Warmia .

In the reorganization of the Catholic Church in Prussia after the Congress of Vienna , he played an important role as the executor of the circumscription bull De salute animarum of July 16, 1821.

Franz Heinrich Reusch: Joseph of Hohenzollern-Hechingen . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 702 f.
Barbara Wolf-Dahm: Joseph Wilhelm Friedrich Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen, Prince-Bishop of Warmia. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 3, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-035-2 , Sp. 679-683. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Anton Eichhorn : The execution of the bull "De salute animarum" in the individual dioceses of the Prussian state by the Prince-Bishop of Warmia, Prince Joseph von Hohenzollern . In: Magazine for the history and archeology of Warmia . Volume 5, year 1870–1874, pp. 1–130.
Letters and diaries of the Prince-Bishop of Warmia Joseph von Hohenzollern , introduced and edited by Prof. Dr. Franz Hipler, Braunsberg 1883.

^ Genealogisches Reichs- und Staats-Handbuch: on the year 1805, Frankfurt am Main, p. 139 f.

predecessor	Office	successor
Karl von Hohenzollern-Hechingen	Bishop of Warmia 1808–1836	Andreas Stanislaus von Hatten

personal data
SURNAME	Hohenzollern-Hechingen, Joseph von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hohenzollern-Hechingen, Joseph Wilhelm Friedrich von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Prince-Bishop of Warmia
DATE OF BIRTH	May 20, 1776
PLACE OF BIRTH	Troppau
DATE OF DEATH	September 26, 1836
Place of death	Oliva Castle