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Petrus Pustet (also: Johann Jakob Pustet / Buechstött; also: Pustett) (born March 16, 1764 in Hemau ; † April 24, 1825 in Eichstätt ) was bishop of the diocese of Eichstätt from 1824 to 1825.

Bishop Petrus Pustet, painted by Johann Baptist Hirschmann (1770–1829)

The Augustinian Canon

The family is said to be of Italian origin and originally carried the name "Bustetto" , which was later Germanised as "Buechstött" . Born as Johann Jakob Buechstött (as the baptismal record), the oldest of six children of Hemauer schoolmaster Johann Georg Bu (e) chstett (he) and his wife Maria Anna attended born BAKL the convent schools of Prüfening and St. Emmeram , then the Regensburg school and finally the local lyceum. At the age of 20 he joined the Augustinian Canons of Rohr in 1784 , was given the monastery name Petrus and made his profession on November 7, 1785 . He studied theology at the Rohr monastery and was ordained a priest on September 23, 1787 . At first he was the monastery librarian and assistant priest and feast day preacher in Rohr and in other parishes belonging to the monastery.

In 1790 he was at the University of Ingolstadt for Doctor of Philosophy PhD . He then worked as a teacher at the electoral academic high school in Ingolstadt, which was assigned to his order. In 1794 he returned to the Rohr monastery, where he worked as a novice master and from 1796 pastorated the parish of Laaberberg as a parish vicar . From 1796 he wrote himself Pustet (t). On September 2, 1801 the Rohrer Convent elected him the last provost and Lateranian abbot before secularization .

During the secularization, the Rohr monastery was abolished on March 29, 1803. He went to Kumpfmühl near Regensburg , then to the former Prüll Charterhouse , where he lived in seclusion. In 1813 or 1814, the Bavarian King Max I Joseph appointed him district inspector of the Catholic primary schools in Regensburg, and in 1818 he was a clergyman in the Regensburg Episcopal Consistory . In 1821 he became one of the first cathedral capitals of the rebuilt cathedral chapter of Regensburg. In 1823 the Bishop of Regensburg appointed him official .

The bishop

Coat of arms of the bishop, from his tomb.

A few days after the death of the last former prince-bishop of Eichstätt, Petrus Pustet was nominated Bishop of Eichstätt by King Max I Joseph on March 4, 1824, and appointed bishop on May 24, 1824. The consecration took place on October 3, 1824 in Eichstätt, the day after he was enthroned. He was the first non-aristocratic bishop of Eichstätt for over five centuries. "Piety, humility, austerity against himself, righteousness, goodness, kindness and charity to the poor distinguished him." (Appel / Gatz, p 580) broke Six months after taking office, he invalidated after the Pontifical Mass of Easter Sunday together and died three weeks later. He was buried in the central nave of Eichstätter Cathedral . A simple monument in the cathedral cloister reminds of him.

Others

He was the uncle of Friedrich Pustet (1798–1882), the founder of Friedrich Pustet KG .

literature

• JG Hoffmann: Funeral sermon… . Regensburg 1825
• St. Willibalds-Blatt , No. 12. Neumarkt 1925
• J. Zeschick : The election of the last provost von Rohr. In: Der Rohrspatz 12 (1968/69), No. 10/12
• Brun Appel: Petrus Pustet. In: Erwin Gatz (Ed.): The bishops of the German-speaking countries 1785/1803 to 1945. A biographical lexicon. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-428-05447-4 , pp. 579f.
• Klaus Kreitmeir: The bishops of Eichstätt. Church newspaper, Eichstätt 1992, p. 90f.
• Petrus Pustett . In: The Diocese of Eichstätt in the past and present . Volume 4 (1995), p. 42f.
• Dieter Albrecht:  Pustet (publisher and printer family). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 14 f. ( Digitized version ). - family items

Web links

• Entry on Petrus Pustet on catholic-hierarchy.org
• Obituary notice of his sister Theresia Pustet, Eichstätt, 1841

predecessor	Office	successor
Joseph von Stubenberg	Bishop of Eichstaett 1824 - 1825	Johann Friedrich Oesterreicher