Nikolaus Fischer (clergyman)

Nikolaus Fischer , (born January 20, 1791 in Sächsisch Haugsdorf , Lausitz, † April 18, 1858 in Frankenstein , Silesia) was the prince-bishop's delegate for Brandenburg and Pomerania and provost of St. Hedwig's Church in Berlin.

Life

Nikolaus Fischer was ordained a priest on June 3, 1814 by Bishop Franz Georg Lock , Apostolic Prefect of Meißen , in St. Mary's Church in Bautzen . From 1814 to 1823 he was the monastery chaplain in Lauban.

On April 19, 1823, Fischer became a chaplain at St. Hedwig's Church in Berlin, the only Catholic church in Berlin. On June 5, 1827 he was the Breslauer prince bishop as administrator of the provost of St. Hedwig in Berlin appointed as Hubert Auer to the provost at the Cathedral of Trier had been ordered. On March 1, 1829, the official handover to provost of St. Hedwig's Church in Berlin and at the same time canon of Breslau Cathedral and prince-bishop's delegate for Brandenburg and Pomerania took place .

He was the confessor of Luise Hensel and the wife and eldest daughter of Ludwig Tieck and Karl von Holtei . Fischer had lively contact with the Catholic Berliners, u. a. Joseph von Eichendorff .

Fischer asked for his impeachment in 1836 and was on December 1, 1837, through the mediation of Count von Schlabrendorf , city pastor and archpriest of Frankenstein in Silesia, where he also died on April 18, 1858. He was buried on April 22, 1858 in the cemetery at St. Hedwig's Church in Zadel.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Joachim Köhler , Rainer Bendel : History of Christian Life in the Silesian Region, Part 1 , LIT Verlag Münster 2002, page 747 ff.

predecessor	Office	successor
Hubert Auer	Prince-Bishop's delegate for Brandenburg and Pomerania 1829–1836	Georg Anton Brinkmann