Leonhard Haller

Leonhard Haller (* 1499 or 1500 in Denkendorf ; † March 25, 1570 in Eichstätt ) was an auxiliary bishop of the Reformation , who also worked as a translator and religious writer.

Leonhard Haller's coat of arms

Life

Youth, training, pastoral care

Little is known for sure about the life of the auxiliary bishop until he entered the clergy. Up until the 20th century, it was assumed that he came from the Nuremberg patrician family Haller von Hallerstein ; However, the Eichstatt diocesan historian Franz Xaver Buchner was able to show in 1937 that Haller was born in Denkendorf. He must have enjoyed a scientific education at a university, because he later carried the title of Magister artium. Presumably he is identical to Leonhard Bader, who was matriculated at the University of Ingolstadt in 1518 ; Bader could point to his father's profession. In 1519, "Leonardus Haller de Denckendorff pauper" received his bachelor's degree at the Ingolstadt artist faculty , and in the winter semester of 1529/30 he received his master's degree as "D. (ominus) Leonardus Haller Ingolstadianus", so he had probably settled in Ingolstadt. Since, according to a handwritten ownership note in an incunable, he worked as a cooperator in the parish of St. Moritz in Ingolstadt in 1529 , he will have been ordained a priest beforehand (1528?).

From 1530 to 1533 Haller held the office of preacher in Aichach (from there Haller visited the library of the Brigittenkloster Altomünster in 1532). In 1533 Haller was found as a cooperator at St. Peter in Munich . On February 2, 1534 he became pastor of St. Ulrich in Augsburg . When the city council issued a general ban on Catholic sermons in the city on July 22, 1534, Haller denied the council the right to do so, but subsequently refrained from preaching on Sundays and public holidays. Placed under house arrest because of a wedding address, he left Augsburg on February 13, 1536 and returned to Ingolstadt via Munich in the same month. Here he probably preached several times in St. Moritz until he was given a position at Eichstätt Cathedral in 1536, at the latest in August, probably a canon at the Willibald Choir.

Haller devoted himself to preaching and small writing for the next few years.

The auxiliary bishop

On August 23, 1540, the Eichstätter Prince-Bishop Moritz von Hutten appointed him his auxiliary bishop, and on November 5, 1540 he was appointed by Pope Paul III. Appointed Titular Bishop of Philadelphia in Arabia . After March 5, 1541, he received the episcopal ordination by the Augsburg auxiliary bishop Johann Laymann . For three decades he pursued his main task, representing the bishop in pontifical functions. From 1544 he was cathedral preacher in Eichstätt. In a leading position he participated in the diocesan synod in 1548 and in visitations, e.g. B. of the St. Emmeram Abbey in Spalt 1542. For a short time he also worked again in Augsburg: When Catholic worship was restored in St. Ulrich, he worked there in the spring of 1548 as a sermon assistant. In 1550 he made a pilgrimage to Rome. From 1551 to 1556 Haller lived in Eichstätt in a courtyard on Rossmarkt (formerly C 245).

In December 1569, Haller made another pilgrimage to Rome, despite his advanced age. A few months later, on March 25, 1570, he died in Eichstätt and was buried in the "Mariä Schnee" chapel of the Eichstätter Ostenfriedhof, for which he had made several pious foundations and where his tombstone, a bishop's chest with an inscription, has been preserved to this day Has. After his death, most of his library of at least 180 volumes was moved to the prince-bishop's court library in Eichstätt (now the state library). The Augsburg State and City Library also has works with Haller's monogram.

In 1560 Haller had given the town of Eichstätt a "dwelling" that he owned and designated it for midwives , and in 1567 a "dwelling" for three poor Schrötter .

Ordinations

The following are handed down from Haller's ordinations:

• Participation in the consecration of the Regensburg auxiliary bishop Johannes Klußpeckh in June 1547
• After the troops of Duke Moritz von Sachsen looted the Eichstätter Schottenkloster in 1552 and desecrated its church, Haller consecrated three altars there two years later.
• Consecration of Eichstatt Prince-Bishop Martin von Schaumberg on May 18, 1561
• Consecration of the new Eichstätter seminar chapel on November 26, 1564

Participation in the Tridentinum

In 1562/63, Haller took part in the third session of the Council of Trent on behalf of the Bishop of Eichstätt ; there he represented the Bishop of Würzburg in 1563. At the council he spoke out against the granting of the lay chalice , but called for the opinion of the German bishops to be explored and for a decision to be taken based on their judgment. On May 18, 1563 he campaigned energetically for the rights of the auxiliary bishops and procurators by means of a council vote .

Literary activity

This was mainly about the sermon. His own sermons from the estate were first recorded, albeit incompletely, in 1785 by the educated Augsburg bookseller Franz Anton Veith. The Augustinian choir from Rebdorf, Andreas Straus, also dealt with Haller's literary work in 1799 in the “Viri scriptis ...”; he complements Veith.

Haller initially translated sermons by Johannes Hoffmeister from Latin and added to them (2 volumes, 1548 and 1550). In 1553 he published some of his own sermons and last translated in 1559 a controversial text by the later Cardinal Stanislaus Hosius . All of Haller's other writings, smaller treatises, translations, sermons and sermon sketches as well as the Trento travel descriptions have largely been preserved in handwriting. Little has survived of Haller's correspondence.

Printed works

• Johannes Hoffmeister (and Leonhard Haller): Preaching about the Sunday Gospels of the whole year . Ingolstadt: Alexander Weissenhorn 1548 (last Wesel 1847). (Hoffmeister still translated his sermons from Advent to Pentecost himself, the rest then Haller).
• Johannes Hoffmeister, Leonhard Haller: Sermon From the dear saints of God, whose days in the Christian Churches are celebrated and celebrated with special memories and celebrations. Described by ... Johan. Hofmaister ..., and something of the same left, that is amicably and reliably reimbursed by Mr. Leonhard Haller ... Ingolstadt: Alexander and Samuel Weissenhorn 1550 (and later editions). (Translation of Hoffmeister's sermons by Haller and supplementary sermons from Haller as well as a treatise on Haller's grace and indulgences).
• Leonhard Haller: Grounds and proclaims outside the divine and the holy fathers, the flesh and blood IHESV CHRISTI in the office of the holy mass by whitewashed priests was sacrificed ... in sermons . Ingolstadt: Alexander and Samuel Weissenhorn 1553, see [1] (other sermons from Haller on the sacrifice of the Mass remained unprinted)
• Stanislaus Hosius: Of the bright, of that time of many highly vilified clear and obvious WORD OF GOD in an acceptance and warning script. Translated by Leonhard Haller. Ingolstadt: Alexander and Samuel Weissenhorn 1559. See [2]

literature

• Theobald Freudenberger: Leonhard Haller von Eichstätt in the dispute over the honor of the auxiliary bishops in the Council of Trento . In: Ortskirche, Weltkirche. Ceremony for Julius Cardinal Döpfner . Würzburg: Echter 1973, ISBN 3-429-00300-8 , pp. 141ff.
• Ludwig Ott : Life and writings of the Eichstätter auxiliary bishop Leonhard Haller († 1570) . In: Collective sheet of the historical association Eichstätt 67 (1974) pp. 83-131
• Ludwig Ott: To the library of the Eichstätter auxiliary bishop Leonhard Haller . In: Collective sheet of the historical association Eichstätt 68 (1975) pp. 7-26
• Ludwig Ott: New contributions to the life, to the literature and to the library of the Eichstatter auxiliary bishop Leonhard Haller . In: Collective sheet of the historical association Eichstätt 69 (1976) pp. 91–159
• Ludwig Ott: The controversial sermons of the Eichstatter auxiliary bishop Leonhard Haller (obit. 1570) about the mass sacrifice . In: Way into the future. Festschrift for Prof. DDr. Anton Antweiler on his 75th birthday. Brill (Leiden) 1975, pp. 155-185
• Ludwig Ott: A previously unknown letter from Ingolstadt professor Georg Hauer to Leonhard Haller . In: Collective sheet of the Historisches Verein Ingolstadt 89 (1980), pp. 109–114
• Romuald Bauerreiß : Church history of Bavaria . Volume VI. Augsburg 1965, p. 208, 230-234 passim
• Ernst Reiter: Haller, Leonhard . In: Lexicon for Theology and Church , Volume IV. Freiburg: Herder 2006, Sp. 1161f.
• Stefan Killermann: Glowing zeal for Catholicism. Auxiliary Bishop Leonhard Haller worked in Eichstätt during the Reformation - with a heart for the poor . In: Eichstätter Kurier of January 4, 2018, p. 26

Web links

• Entry about Leonhard Haller on catholic-hierarchy.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bernd Moeller, Bruno Jahn (ed.): Enzyklopädie der Theologie und der Kirchen (DBETh), Vol. 1, Munich 2005, p. 572.

predecessor	Office	successor
Anton Braun	Auxiliary bishop in Eichstätt 1540–1570	Wolfgang Holl