Philipp Schmitt (pastor)
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Philipp Schmitt (born November 29, 1805 in Trier , † February 19, 1856 in Cologne ) was a German pastor and archaeologist.
Life
Philipp Schmitt was born as the fifth of seven children to the day laborer Wilhelm Schmitt and the cook Elisabeth Thein. On November 30, 1805 he was baptized in St. Maria in Irminen. From 1817 to 1819 he attended the Trier Cathedral School, then the Royal Prussian Gymnasium in Trier . While studying philosophy and theology as an external student in Trier, he was tutor of the Peter Ludwig Mohr banking family . In 1829 he began training as a priest in the seminary in Trier . After being ordained a priest on March 27, 1830, he was appointed chaplain of the parish of St. Paulus in Trier, but continued to work as a private tutor.
On January 12, 1833 he was introduced as a pastor in Dillingen . In a Chartularium he describes the impressions of his introduction. The parishioners were only ready to pick up his furniture from Merzig after they had been guaranteed the appropriate payment . The tensions between the long-established peasant population and the partly immigrated hut workers erupted during a Corpus Christi procession in a dispute about who should wear the image of the Virgin. In order to prevent a renewed tumult, Pastor Schmitt did without the picture of Our Lady the following year. By founding an association for the abolition of begging by children, and founding a youth library with hagiographies and books by Christoph von Schmid , he tried to give the community a boost, which until then only communicated twice a year on Easter and All Saints' Day. The holy rock pilgrimage , for which Louis Piette's wife donated a flag with the image of the holy robe, was particularly popular with the population. In 1837 he erected a 15-foot high, hand-carved stone cross on the Galgenberg in the Hüttenwald , making the Galgenberg a Holy Mountain and henceforth the destination of the Corpus Christi procession. From 1844 to 1845 he built the new St. Johann church .
His intense activity in various fields of science was perceived in such a way that he became a corresponding member of the Society for Useful Research in Trier in 1835, a full member in 1848, Vice President in 1852 and finally President of the Society in 1853. He was also a member of the historical society in Saarbrücken and Ottweiler , the Académie Royale in Metz and the historical antiquarian society in Trier.
In 1848 he was transferred to St. Paulin in Trier. While recovering a stone, Roman coffin, he suffered a hernia in 1855, of which he died in 1856 after an operation in Cologne. On March 3, 1856, the death official was celebrated in St. Paulin .
The Philipp Schmitt School in Dillingen bears his name.
Pastor Schmitt first described the Roman Qanat von Mehring . He also carried out botanical, mineralogical and zoological studies.
"The sexes disappear with what they do, and it is dear to the late descendant, even if weak voices from the past speak to him and link his existence to a previous life"
Fonts
- Philipp Schmitt: The Saarlouis district and its immediate surroundings under the Romans and Celts ... Lintz, 1830 ( full text in the Google book search).
- Ph Schmitt: Geognostic studies on the Litermonte: A monograph as a contribution to the history of the mountains on the Saar, especially the Porphyry and Trapp Mountains . F. Stein, 1839 ( full text in Google book search).
- Philipp Schmitt: The Church of St. Paulinus near Trier, its history and its sanctuaries . Grach in Komm., 1853 ( full text in the Google book search).
literature
- Lehnert, Aloys: History of the city of Dillingen / Saar . Dillingen 1968, p. 319-327 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ BBKL 16 (1999), Col. 1426–1428 ( Memento from June 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmitt, Philipp |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pastor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 29, 1805 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | trier |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 19, 1856 |
| Place of death | Cologne |