Matthäus Kirchner

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Friedrich Matthäus Kirchner (born March 3, 1826 in Bamberg , † January 5, 1912 in Scheßlitz ) was a German missionary in Africa and a member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Matthäus Kirchner attended the Alte Gymnasium Bamberg from 1840 to 1844 and then attended the two philosophical and three theological courses at the Bamberg Lyceum . He was ordained a priest on April 19, 1849. In the same year he went as court master to Count Karl von Spaur , the ambassador of the Kingdom of Bavaria in Naples , Rome and Turin .

From 1854 Kirchner devoted himself to the missions in Central Africa and, as the successor to Ignaz Knoblecher, became an apostolic provicer with episcopal rights. Kirchner made missionary trips on the blue and white Nile , in Egypt , Nubia and Sudan , also in Europe, Turkey , Syria and Palestine . He wrote the oldest grammar of a West Nilotic language and organized the missionary work from Khartoum . He fell ill and had to give up his work in Africa.

After his return he was pastor in St. Martin in Bamberg and chairman of the seminary . From 1873 he worked in Scheßlitz, where he was active in various ways and was finally made an honorary citizen.

From 1874 to 1877 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency of Upper Franconia 4 (Kronach) and the center .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 204.

literature

  • Wilhelm Kosch : Catholic Germany. Volume 2, Haas & Grabherr, Augsburg 1937
  • Wilhelm Kosch, continued by Eugen Kuri: Biographisches Staats Handbuch. Francke, Bern [et al.] 1963.

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personal data
SURNAME Kirchner, Matthäus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kirchner, Friedrich Matthäus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German missionary and politician (center), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Bamberg
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1912
Place of death Scheßlitz