Ludwig Forwerk

Ludwig Forwerk's grave in Dresden

Ludwig Anton Forwerk (born August 29, 1816 in Dresden ; † January 8, 1875 there ) was a German Roman Catholic clergyman .

Life

Forwerk, who came from the Saxon residence city of Dresden, studied in Prague from 1831 to 1839 and was initially a holiday preacher, court chaplain and prince tutor at the royal court in Dresden after being ordained a priest in 1839 . From 1854 until his death he was apostolic vicar in the Saxon hereditary lands, apostolic prefect of the former diocese of Meissen in the margraviate of Upper Lusatia and cathedral dean of Bautzen . As dean of the cathedral monastery in Bautzen , where he moved in on September 6, 1854, he was a member of the first chamber of the Saxon state parliament from 1854 to 1875 . He was also titular bishop of Leontopolis in Augustamnica from July 11, 1854 until his death . He was ordained bishop on September 24, 1854 by Friedrich Johannes Jacob Cölestin von Schwarzenberg , the Archbishop of Prague . Forwerk was one of the bishops who only subsequently submitted to the Vatican .

His grave is in the Old Catholic Cemetery in Dresden.

literature

• Franz Hülskamp :  Forwerk, Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 196.

Web links

• Ludwig Forwerk ( Memento from January 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Person Wiki of the SLUB Dresden
• Entry to Ludwig Forwerk on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on December 31, 2016.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ New Lusatian Magazine . Volume 32, Görlitz 1855, News from the Lausitz . Second piece, 1855, p. 42 ( digitized version ).

predecessor	Office	successor
Joseph Dittrich	Apostolic Prefect of Upper Lusatia (for Meissen's former diocesan area there) 1854–1875	Franz Bernert
Joseph Dittrich	Apostolic Vicar in the Saxon Hereditary Lands 1854–1875	Franz Bernert