Leopold Anton von Podstatzky-Prusinowitz
Leopold Anton von Podstatzky-Prusinowitz (born April 21, 1717 in Vienna ; † March 28, 1776 in Olomouc ) was an infulfilled prelate , cathedral capitular of the archdioceses of Salzburg and Olomouc, cathedral dean in Olomouc, rector of the University of Olomouc and a friend of the Mozart family.
Life
Leopold Anton, Reichsgraf Podstatzký, Freiherr von Prusinowitz, Lord of Patschendorf, Schlackau and Altendorf, commander of the Royal Hungarian Order of Saint Stephen , was a son of Franz Dominik Valerian, Count Podstatzky, Freiherr von Prusinowitz (1678–1741), from the Marriage to Maria Theresia von Lichtenstein-Kastelkorn, a sister of the Salzburg Prince Archbishop Jakob Ernst von Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn .
He was sworn up as a canon in Salzburg on January 12, 1733 , took up his first residence on September 23, 1740 and celebrated his first mass on Christmas Day 1741. In 1744 he became president of the court council. After his uncle Jakob Ernst Graf Liechtenstein was elected archbishop, he received the imperial regalia for him in Vienna. In 1754 he was appointed consistorial president in Salzburg. He was a real secret councilor , official and vicar general in spiritualibus in Olomouc, Canonicus scholasticus (cathedral scholaster ) in Olomouc, 1764 cathedral dean in Olomouc, also provost of the collegiate church Maria Schnee and rector magnificus of the University of Olomouc .
Count Podstatzký is best known today as a patron of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart :
“Finally, at the end of October , he fled < Leopold Mozart > with his children to Olomouc because of the increasingly spreading leaves <in Vienna> . But both of them, first Wolfgang, then Marianne , were affected by it here. Count Leopold Anton von Podstatzky, cathedral dean of Olmütz and canon of Salzburg (which is why Mozart was known to him), offered his worried father to take in the whole family because - a rare case - he did not fear this disease. In the Domdechantei, under careful care and medical treatment, the children happily survived the peeling, which occurred so violently that Wolfgang lay blind for nine days. "
literature
- Johann Riedl: Salzburg canons from 1514 to 1806. In: Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Salzburger Landeskunde 7 (1867), p. 165
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Podstatzky-Prusinowitz, Leopold Anton von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Cathedral Dean and Rector of the University of Olomouc |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 21, 1717 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 28, 1776 |
| Place of death | Olomouc |