Kaspar Anton von Mastiaux

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Kaspar Anton von Mastiaux (* 1766 in Bonn ; † December 28, 1828 in Munich ) was a canon and royal Bavarian Privy Councilor.

Life

Kaspar Anton was the second son of Hofkammerrat Johannes Godefridus von Mastiaux (1726–1790) and his wife Maria Anna Bernardina von Pelzer (1739–1773), daughter of Hofkammerrat Franciscus Matthias von Pelzer and Anna Maria Gudula von Halberg. One of his godparents was the Minister Caspar Anton von Belderbusch .

Mastiaux began his studies at the "Maxische Akademie" in Bonn and obtained a master's degree in philosophy at the University of Cologne at the age of 18 . He then turned to law, went to the University of Göttingen and received his doctorate in law in Heidelberg in 1786 .

Mastiaux was enthusiastic about the ideas of the Enlightenment , was the youngest of the 13 founding members of the Bonn Reading Society in 1787 and became its secretary in the summer of 1789. In April 1790 Mastiaux became director of the reading society.

Kaspar Anton was designated by his parents for the clergy . He was ordained a priest in March 1789 in Cologne. As the author of an anonymous pamphlet against the Cologne cathedral chapter in defense of the Bonn university curator von Spiegel and three professors, Mastiaux had to leave Bonn and went to Dillingen in the diocese of Augsburg . After clearly distancing himself from the Enlightenment movement, he took up the position of cathedral preacher in Augsburg in 1798. He was now involved in the movement of Catholic renewal in Bavaria. In 1803 he became state directorate in the Bavarian province of Swabia and three years later he was promoted to the real secret council of the Bavarian king in Munich. After the death of Franz Karl Felder , he was also editor-in-chief of the "Literature newspaper for Catholic religious teachers" until 1825 and advocated a stricter orthodoxy in Catholicism.

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  1. ↑ baptized on March 3, 1766 in St. Martin (Bonn)

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SURNAME Mastiaux, Kaspar Anton von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canon and Royal Bavarian Privy Councilor
DATE OF BIRTH baptized March 3, 1766
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1828
Place of death Munich