Ottokar Maria von Attems

Ottokar Maria von Attems, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1854

Ottokar Maria von Attems, lithograph by Adolf Dauthage , 1861

Ottokar Maria Graf von Attems (born February 16, 1815 in Graz ; † April 12, 1867 there ) was Prince-Bishop of Seckau and from 1853 to 1859 also Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Leoben .

Life

Ottokar Maria Graf Attems came from the noble Attems family and attended the Theresian Knight Academy in Vienna. Then came Attems in the Graz seminary and was on 22 August 1837 priests ordained . After various positions as a pastor, he became pastor of Pöls in 1841 ; In 1850 he became a doctor of theology doctorate , the following year he became cathedral and parish priest in Salzburg .

On September 10, 1853, the Archbishop of Salzburg, Maximilian Joseph von Tarnóczy, appointed him Prince-Bishop of Seckau, which at the same time involved taking over as administrator of Leoben. On November 6th of the same year Attems received the episcopal ordination from the archbishop . The final unification of the dioceses of Leoben and Seckau fell during his term of office. The politically liberal Count Attems was also a member of the manor house , in whose meetings he also took part.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Attems, Ottocar Maria Graf von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 22nd part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1870, p. 468 ( digitized version ).
• Karl Amon (ed.): The bishops of Graz-Seckau 1218–1968 . Graz-Vienna-Cologne, 1969.
• Michaela Kronthaler (ed.): Life pictures of Styrian bishops. (= Publications of the Styrian Provincial Archives, vol. 29) . Graz – Vienna – Cologne, 2002.

Web links

Commons : Ottokar Maria von Attems  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on Ottokar Maria von Attems on catholic-hierarchy.org

predecessor	Office	successor
Joseph Othmar von Rauscher	Bishop of Seckau 1853–1867	Johann Baptist Zwerger