Michael Lefflad

Michael Lefflad (born May 26, 1828 in Ammerbacherkreuth near Wemding , † November 2, 1900 in Eichstätt ), professor in Eichstätt, has earned lasting merit by publishing the registers of the Eichstätt bishops.

Michael Lefflad, 1876

Life

Born in Ammerbacherkreuth near Wemding in the diocese of Eichstätt , he went to the episcopal city of Eichstätt to become a priest. There he attended the Latin school and grammar school at the Royal College from 1840 to 1848 and was also a pupil of the Episcopal Boys' College from 1842 to 1847. After graduating from high school , he studied philosophy and theology at the Eichstätt Lyceum from 1848 to 1853 and was ordained a Catholic priest on May 17, 1853 .

In 1853/54 a seminar-owned school in the spirit of the Tridentine seminary model was built for the convictors of the 1st and 2nd grades of the royal Latin school accepted into the episcopal seminary , which, however, was not recognized by the state and was therefore closed again after two years. The teacher with the official designation "Repetitor" of these classes was Michael Lefflad. In 1854 he became a cooperator in Pleinfeld , and in 1855 in Plankstetten . From 1856 to 1860 he worked as cathedral chaplain in Eichstätt and from 1860 to 1900 as cathedral vicar. As such, from October 13, 1860 to 1891, he was professor of general history at the Episcopal Lyceum Eichstätt and, from 1875 to 1885, editor of the Pastoral-Blatt, the official journal for the clergy of the diocese of Eichstätt. From 1886 to 1896 he also taught church history and was part-time archivist at the Episcopal Ordinariatsarchiv Eichstätt after he had already published the regests of the bishops of Eichstätt from 1870 to 1872 , a source that is still used today for almost every historical treatise on the Diocese of Eichstätt is used. In 1886 he was honored with the title of Episcopal Spiritual Council of the Diocese of Eichstätt.

estate

It is located in the Eichstätt University Library, Manuscript Department, Am Hofgarten 1. In addition, it bequeathed the seminar library (today integrated into the UB) its extremely valuable library , which has over 3,600 volumes, which is important in particular because of its historical, especially regional literature .

Bibliographies

• Franz Sales Romstöck: Personnel Statistics and Bibliography of the Episcopal Lyceum in Eichstätt (1894), p. 131f.
• Jürgen Strötz: The Eichstätter cathedral chapter. Constitution and Personal History in the 19th Century (2003), p. 294

Works (selection)

• Several articles in the Lexicon for Theology and Church , Freiburg im Breisgau
• The cult of St. Deochar ( Deocar ) , in: Pastoralblatt for the Diocese of Eichstätt, (1859), number 6
• On the knowledge of God, man and soul (studies by Alphonse Gratry ), translated and annotated (together with Joseph Weizenhofer and Joseph Conrad Pfahler ) , 6 volumes (1858/59)
• Regesta of the Bishops of Eichstätt , Volumes I-IV (1870/72)

literature

• Franz Sales Romstöck: Personnel Statistics and Bibliography of the Bishop. Lyceums in Eichstätt (1894) , p. 131f .; 262
• M. Reindl: Michael Lefflad, Episcopal ecclesiastical council, Lyceal professor and cathedral vicar in Eichstätt, † November 2, 1900 , in: Pastoral-Blatt für das Diocese Eichstätt 47 (1900), p. 123f.
• Franz Heidingsfelder: Michael Lefflad, in: Lebenslaufen aus Franken II (1922), pp. 261–264
• Veritati et Vitae II , Eichstätt 1993, p. 357
• Jürgen Strötz: Clergy Education . The Diocese of Eichstätt in the 19th Century (2002), pp. 202–205
• Jürgen Strötz: The Eichstätter cathedral chapter. Constitution and Personal History in the 19th Century (2003), p. 293f.
• Lefflad, Michael, Professor , in: Siegfried Schieweck-Mauk: "... unforgettable years". Swiss students in Eichstätt (Bavaria) (1848 - 1912) , Cologne: SH-Verlag 2007, pp. 351f., ISBN 978-3-89498-174-7