Moritz dear

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Moritz Joseph Josias Lieber (born October 1, 1790 at Blankenheim Castle ; † December 29, 1860 in Camberg ) was a German lawyer, politician , publicist, author, translator and tea merchant. He is considered the "father" of the German Center Party .

family

Moritz Lieber, whose ancestors came from the Graubünden Vorderrheintal , was the son of the marriage of Gisbert Lieber (1759–1843) and Adelheid von Roesgen-Floß.

In 1822 he married Anna Maria Franziska Windischmann, the daughter of the Bonn philosopher Karl Joseph Hieronymus Windischmann . The marriage had five children. After the death of his wife in 1832, he married Maria Josepha Hilt, with whom he had ten children. His son Philipp Ernst Maria Moritz Lieber was a co-founder of the Center Party and from 1892 until his death in 1902 leader of the Center Party in the Reichstag.

Life

Moritz Lieber studied at the University of Aschaffenburg and received his doctorate in both rights (Dr. iur. Utr.) At the Law Faculty of the University of Bonn . After his second state examination in law in 1810, he worked for the Staehler government council and then entered the Prussian service. From 1812 to 1821 he was a government lawyer in Ehrenbreitstein with his residence in Engers. In 1821 he was admitted to the bar by the Koblenz Regional Court. In 1824 he resigned from the Prussian civil service and moved to Camberg in Nassau , where he was appointed Legation Councilor in 1831.

Better to be committed to Catholicism in the Duchy of Nassau . The diocese of Limburg was founded on his main initiative in 1827 . In the Cologne church dispute in 1837, the March Revolution of 1848 and later in the Upper Rhine church conflict, he represented Catholic interests. In 1849 he founded the Catholic Camberg Association, from which the "Vincenzkonferenz" emerged a few years later. He was a co-founder of the Boniface Society . Together with the Augsburg entrepreneur Carl August Brentano-Mezzegra, he set up the Presidium of the second German Catholic Convention from May 9 to 12, 1849 in Breslau and, with Karl Ernst von Moy de Sons, the Presidium of the ninth German Catholic Convention from September 21 to 24, 1857 Salzburg.

He was considered an accomplished Catholic publicist and author. Dear, who was friends with the church painter Philipp Veit , the Limburg bishop Peter Josef Blum and the politically influential Mainz bishop Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler as well as the constitutional lawyer Carl Ernst Jarcke , was one of the most important personalities of the Nassau political Catholicism during the revolutionary period of 1848/49. For his high church services he was named by Pope Pius IX. Awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Gregorius .

At the age of 70 he became a member of the second chamber of the estates of the Duchy of Nassau , the state parliament of the Duchy of Nassau , and vice-president of the first chamber.

Fonts

  • The works of Count Joseph Marie de Maistre , 1825
  • On celibacy: answers to questions in the fragment of a conversation about the marriage of priests, recently published by Hadamar in the publishers of the Neue Schehrten-Buchhandlung , 1831
  • The capture of the Archbishop of Cologne and their motives , August Osterrieth Frankfurt am Main 1837
  • An Irishman's Travels in Search of the True Religion: with notes and explanations , Pergay 1852 (6th edition), together with Thomas Moore
  • In matters of the Upper Rhine church province: with older and newer files , Herder 1853

literature

  • Manfred Berger :  Dear, Moritz Joseph Josias. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 21, Bautz, Nordhausen 2003, ISBN 3-88309-110-3 , Sp. 824-830.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • August Bertsche: Moritz Lieber , in: Nassauische Lebensbilder . Volume 4 ( Publications of the Historical Commission for Nassau ; Vol. 10.4). Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1950, pp. 185 ff.
  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 243.
  • Nassau parliamentarians. Part 1: Cornelia Rösner: The Landtag of the Duchy of Nassau 1818–1866 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Nassau. 59 = Prehistory and history of parliamentarism in Hesse. 16). Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-930221-00-4 , p. 103 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hermann-Josef Scheidgen: "German Catholicism in the Revolution of 1848/49", Böhlau Verlag, 2008
  2. ↑ Andreas Niedermayer: "Mecheln and Würzburg: Sketches and pictures drawn at the Catholic assemblies in Belgium and Germany", Herder, 1865
  3. ↑ Michael Wettengel: "The revolution of 1848/49 in the Rhine-Main area: political associations and everyday revolution in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, Duchy of Nassau and in the free city of Frankfurt", Historical Commission for Nassau, 1989
  4. ↑ “The Capture of the Archbishop of Cologne and its Motives” , Google Books, viewed on April 14, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Dear Moritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dear Moritz Joseph Josias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, politician, publicist and author as well as translator
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH Blankenheim Castle
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1860
Place of death Camberg