Karl Klein (priest)

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Theological diploma thesis 1792, University of Heidelberg, with Professor Heinrich Benedikt Fleischbein
Sermons by Joseph Anton Sambuga , published by Karl Klein, 1822

Karl Klein (* 21st June 1769 in Speyer ; † 12. March 1824 in Mannheim ) was a Catholic priest , seminar , rain and publicist .

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He was the son of Franz Kaspar Klein, sacristan at St. Guidostift Speyer , and his wife, born Brown. First he attended the Augustinian school in Speyer and then spent two years with Nikolaus Braun, his maternal uncle, who was a musician at the Electoral Court in Mainz . Here he trained scientifically and musically.

When he returned to Speyer, the dean of the monastery, Joseph Anton Siegmund von Beroldingen, became his sponsor. Through him he came to the Mannheim Gymnasium and was accepted into the Musicum Seminarium there, which was headed by the former Jesuit Alexander Keck († 1804).

Karl Klein studied philosophy and physics at the University of Heidelberg , then theology there and in Würzburg . He completed the latter studies in Heidelberg in 1792, with a theological diploma under Professor Heinrich Benedikt Fleischbein (1747–1793). He had also entered the local clerical seminary of the diocese of Worms as a Speyer diocesan alumne and was ordained a priest in 1793.

Klein was called into the Electoral Palatinate and employed as a professor at the Catholic grammar school in Heidelberg from 1792 and in Mannheim from 1797 . In 1807 he went to Heidelberg as the rain of the clerical seminary , where he also served as school dean. Karl Theodor von Dalberg , the last Prince-Bishop of Worms and Grand Duke of Frankfurt , awarded him the golden medal of merit in 1810 for his work .

From 1814 Karl Klein served as pastor of Zunsweier , from 1816 of Kronau . Finally, he changed to the priest at the Bürgerhospital Mannheim and the associated hospital church . Here he worked until his death in 1824. The cause of death is "breast inflammation" ( pneumonia ); he found his final resting place in what was then the city's Catholic cemetery.

Karl Klein was a well-known preacher and his homilies appeared in book form in several volumes. He collected and published the letters and the sermons of his former seminary teacher Joseph Anton Sambuga (1752–1815), the educator of King Ludwig I of Bavaria . The letters appeared in two volumes under the title "Joseph Anton Sambuga: Exquisite letters for instruction and edification for everyone, especially written for clergy" . For Sambuga 's biography "Joseph Anton Sambuga, as he was, retold to non-partisan connoisseurs" , published by the later Regensburg Bishop Johann Michael Sailer in 1816 , he provided most of the material. Sailer expressly noted this in the work. In addition, Karl Klein wrote or published theological brochures and wrote many articles in various magazines.

In the obituary of the magazine " Der Katholik " it says about him:

“ Mannheim: On March 12th of the year, the equally pious and learned Mr. Karl Klein, pastor at the Catholic citizen hospital in this city, died. Mannheim loses in him a zealous pastor, theological literature a capable promoter, the Church of God a thoroughly active and godly priest and his many friends a dearly beloved brother "

- Der Katholik , Volume 11, p. 128, Strasbourg, 1824

literature

  • Franz von Besnard: literary newspaper for the Catholic clergy , twentieth year, 2nd volume, Landshut 1829, pages 110 to 126 (digital scan)
  • Georg Christoph Hamberger: The learned Teutschland , Volume 18, p. 355, Lemgo, 1821; (Digital scan)
  • Supplement to the Catholic , No. V. from 1824, pp. XXVI to XXX, obituary; (Digital scan)
  • Supplement to the Catholic , No. VII., 1829, p. X u. XI, description of the tomb; (Digital scan)
  • Allgemeine Schulzeitung , Darmstadt, No. 80, from October 6, 1824, column 704 of the year, short obituary; (Digital scan)
  • Hubert Schiel : Johann Michael Sailer: Briefe , Pustet Verlag, Regensburg, 1952, Volume II, p. 627

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Schweickert: The maintenance of music at the court of the electors of Mainz in the 17th and 18th centuries , Mainz, 1937, p. 135; (Detail scan of Nikolaus Braun)
  2. ^ Intelligence Journal of the Allgemeine Literaturzeitung , No. 207, December 26, 1804, column 1699 of the year; Obituary for Alexander Keck
  3. ^ Grand Ducal Badisches Regierungsblatt , Karlsruhe, February 13, 1816; (Digital scan)
  4. ↑ Carl Ignaz Lorinser: The doctrine of the lung diseases , 1823, p. 206; Declaration on "breast inflammation"
  5. ↑ Der Katholik , Volume 11, p. 128, Strasbourg, 1824; (Digital scan)
personal data
SURNAME Little, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic priest, seminar rain, preacher, author and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1769
PLACE OF BIRTH Speyer
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1824
Place of death Mannheim