Ludwig Ebmer

Ludwig Ebmer (* in Wasserburg am Inn ; † December 4, 1516 in Vienna ) was 1495–1502 Bishop of Chiemsee .

Life

Gravestone for Ludwig Ebmer in the parish church of St. John the Baptist in Breitbrunn am Chiemsee

For the year 1466 he is registered as a student at the University of Vienna , where he was also awarded a Dr. iur. can. PhD. He was first canon of the Au am Inn monastery and then headed the city parish of Salzburg for a short time . He was ordained a priest in 1476 and from 1477 he was pastor of St. Vitus . In 1478 he was the representative of the Salzburg Archbishop Bernhard von Rohr in Rome, and in 1479 he was a member of the Salzburg Cathedral Custodian in an embassy that had to negotiate with King Matthias Corvinus . 1479–1481 he was pastor of Gmünd and at the same time archpriestfrom Upper Carinthia . In 1482 he rose to the position of canon of Salzburg , and also acquired the provost of St. Zeno in Reichenhall , for whose administration and library he made a contribution. 1494–1495 he is attested as Salzburg vicar general and official .

After the death of the Chiemsee Bishop Georg Altdorfer , the Archbishop of Salzburg, Sigmund von Hollenegg, appointed Ludwig Ebmer as his successor on May 4, 1495. Due to the subsequent vacancy of the archbishop's chair, the episcopal ordination took place on July 26th, 1495 by the bishops of Freising , Regensburg , Passau and Brixen . It is known from his short term in office that he granted several indulgences and consecrated altars in his Herrenchiemsee cathedral in 1498 and 1501 . For his Salzburg residence, the Chiemseehof , he arranged for a water pipe to be installed.

On July 27, 1502 Ludwig Ebmer renounced the diocese of Chiemsee and instructed the pastors of Bischofshofen , Bramberg am Wildkogel and Taxenbach to deliver the declaration of renunciation to Archbishop Leonhard von Keutschach . After spending some time in St. Zeno, he went to Vienna as an advisor to Emperor Maximilian . Although he had donated the St. Andrew's Chapel as a burial place for himself and his relatives in the Herrenchiemsee Church as bishop , he was probably buried in Vienna after his death.

literature

• Erwin Naimer: Ebmer, Ludwig († 1516) . In: The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire. A biographical lexicon. Vol. 2: 1448 to 1648 . Edited by Erwin Gatz . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1996 ISBN 3-428-08422-5 p. 143.
• Rainald Becker: Ways to the bishop's throne. Spiritual careers in the ecclesiastical province of Salzburg in the late Middle Ages, humanism and denominational age (1448-1648) (= Roman quarterly. Supplementary volume 59). Rome / Freiburg / Vienna: Herder 2006 ISBN 9783451268595 p. 427.
• Johannes Lang: The Archdiocese of Salzburg 2: The Augustinian Canons of St. Zeno in Reichenhall (= Germania Sacra. Third part 9). Berlin / Boston 2015, especially pp. 583–587 Germania Sacra, full text with proof of employment .

Web links

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• Entry about Ludwig Ebmer on catholic-hierarchy.org
• RAG

predecessor	Office	successor
Georg Altdorfer	Bishop of Chiemsee 1495–1502	Christoph Mendel von Steinfels