Michael Schnetter

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Seal of the Mainz cathedral chapter, 19th century

Michael Schnetter (born September 26, 1788 in Hammelburg , † May 22, 1854 in Mainz ) was a German Catholic priest of the Speyer diocese and cathedral capitular in Mainz .

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He studied theology in Aschaffenburg and was ordained a priest there in 1812. One of his fellow students here was the future Bishop of Mainz, Peter Leopold Kaiser , with whom he remained lifelong friends.

From 1816 Michael Schnetter officiated as chaplain of Stadtprozelten . He taught and supported young people here in order to prepare them for entry into the higher classes of the Latin school. Among them was Georg Anton Stahl , who later became Bishop of Würzburg, who lives here . He also remained connected with him throughout his life.

When the diocese of Speyer was re-established in 1817 and the first new bishop Matthäus Georg von Chandelle from Aschaffenburg came to the Palatinate , several priests followed him from his homeland. Michael Schnetter was one of them. On October 15, 1819 he was appointed pastor of Grünstadt , on May 15, 1822, pastor of Mutterstadt . On November 29, 1829, the priest moved to the pastorate in Deidesheim . In 1831 King Ludwig I of Bavaria appointed him a member of the Palatinate District Assembly .

In 1834, Schnetter's childhood friend Peter Leopold Kaiser was elected bishop of Mainz. This brought him into his surroundings and in 1837 appointed him prebendar at the Mainz Cathedral , whereby he left the diocese of Speyer on September 8, 1837. On behalf of the Mainz cathedral chapter and the grand-ducal Hessian government, Michael Schnetter, in May 1838, offered his student Georg Anton Stahl, who was a professor in Würzburg , a call to the Catholic faculty of the University of Giessen . The offer was apparently at his own suggestion, but Stahl declined.

In 1839 Schnetter was appointed to the Mainz cathedral chapter . As such he was u. a. responsible for the musical part of the new edition of the Mainz diocesan chant from 1841. He and three other canons belonged to the majority group of the cathedral chapter in 1849, which elected the Gießen philosophy professor Leopold Schmid (1808–1869) , who was considered liberal, to be bishop after the emperor's death . Pope Pius IX refused, however, to confirm this choice and instead appointed Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler Oberhirten in Mainz.

Michael Schnetter, who had also advanced to the position of clergy , died on May 22nd, 1854. He had written several theological writings that appeared anonymously and had been a member of the Mainz Antiquities Association since 1850 .

literature

  • Würzburger Diözesangeschichtsblätter , volumes 33–34, 1971, p. 140; (Detail scan)
  • Werner Pelz: The Mainz Cathedral Kapellmeister Georg Viktor Weber (1838-1911) , 1991, p. 162, ISBN 3861140020 ; (Detail scan)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Aschaffenburg History and Art Association: 1000 Years of Aschaffenburg Abbey and City , Volume 3, p. 127, Pattloch Verlag, 1957, (detail scan)
  2. ^ Theodor Joseph Scherg: "Dalbergs Hochschulstadt Aschaffenburg", 3rd volume (Aschaffenburg academics), 1951, Pattloch Verlag, Aschaffenburg, p. 309 u. 310
  3. ^ Intelligence Gazette of the Rhine District No. 83, Speyer, October 29, 1819, p. 577 of the year; (Digital scan)
  4. ^ Government and Intelligence Gazette for the Kingdom of Bavaria , No. 22, Munich, May 25, 1822, column 575 of the year; (Digital scan)
  5. ^ Intelligence Gazette of the Rhine District , No. 43, Speyer, December 23, 1829, sheet 363 of the year; (Digital scan)
  6. ^ Official and Intelligence Gazette of the Royal Bavarian Rhine District , No. 24, Speyer, July 15, 1831, sheet 165 of the year; (Digital scan)
  7. ↑ Martina drum: humility and class consciousness: recruitment and life of the secular clergy the diocese Mainz 1802-1914 , Vol 1, p 31, 2007, ISBN 3980715264 (detail Scan)
  8. ^ Theodor Joseph Scherg: Dalbergs Hochschulstadt Aschaffenburg , 3rd volume (Aschaffenburg academics), 1951, Pattloch Verlag, Aschaffenburg, p. 311
  9. ↑ Mainzer Zeitschrift , volumes 87-88, 1995, p. 341, (excerpt scan)
  10. ↑ Digital scan of the hymn book
  11. ^ Leopold Schmid in the German biography
  12. ^ Theodor Joseph Scherg: Dalbergs Hochschulstadt Aschaffenburg , 3rd volume (Aschaffenburg academics), 1951, Pattloch Verlag, Aschaffenburg, p. 180
  13. ^ Society for Middle Rhine Church History : Archive for Middle Rhine Church History , Volume 35, 1983, p. 203; (Detail scan)
  14. ^ Heinrich Eduard Scriba : Biographical-literary lexicon of the writers of the Grand Duchy of Hesse in the first quarter of the 19th century , Volume 2, p. 659, Darmstadt, 1843; (Digital scan)
  15. ^ Journal of the Association for Research into Rhenish History and Antiquities in Mainz , Volume 1, 1851, p. 367; (Digital scan)
personal data
SURNAME Schnetter, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic priest of the Speyer diocese and cathedral chapter in Mainz
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH Hammelburg
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1854
Place of death Mainz