Richard Dammers
Cornelius Richard Dammers (born March 26, 1762 in Paderborn ; † October 11, 1844 there ) was a priest, lawyer and bishop of Paderborn .
Live and act
Dammers was the son of the merchant Nikolaus Dammers, who immigrated to Paderborn from Hamburg, and his wife Maria Sabina Kannengießer, widowed Wekraut from Brilon. Dammers attended grammar school in Paderborn and later studied philosophy and theology . He completed his studies in 1781 with a doctorate . This was followed by a degree in law in Heidelberg and Göttingen .
From 1780 Dammers was canon of the Busdorf monastery in Paderborn. In 1786 he was ordained a priest and appointed a member of the official court in Paderborn. In 1790 he became an assessor and served as chairman of the court between 1799 and 1802.
Between 1802 and 1827 Dammers was vicar general of the diocese of Paderborn and rector of the university. In the time of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Westphalia he belonged to the imperial estates .
In 1823 Dammers became apostolic vicar for the former Kurmainzer and Kurkölner areas that were added to the diocese of Paderborn . In 1825 the former Corvey Abbey was added. He was also provost of the cathedral in Paderborn from 1823 .
On May 3, 1824, he was the first bourgeois to be appointed auxiliary bishop in Paderborn and titular bishop of Tiberias . Auxiliary Bishop Kaspar Maximilian Droste zu Vischering donated him the episcopal ordination on August 24 of the same year. On November 27, 1841, he was elected Bishop of Paderborn, which was confirmed by the Pope on May 23 of the following year. Dammers, who was already eighty years old, was introduced to his office on August 23, 1842, which he held until his death.
literature
- 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. 103.
- Georg Joseph Rosenkranz: Nekrolog. Richard Dammers . In: Zeitschrift für vaterländische Geschichte und Altertumskunde , Volume 8 (1845), pp. 366–372 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
Web links
- Short biography on LWL.org
- Entry to Richard Dammers on catholic-hierarchy.org
- Dammers, Cornelius Richard. Hessian biography. (As of October 11, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reinhard Köhne: in yearbook Hochsauerlandkreis 2000 , Podsuzun Verlag, Brilon, ISBN 3-86133-230-2 , p. 103.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Friedrich Clemens von Ledebur-Wicheln |
Bishop of Paderborn 1841 - 1844 |
Franz Drepper |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dammers, Richard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dammers, Cornelius Richard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Priest, lawyer and bishop of Paderborn |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 26, 1762 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paderborn |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 11, 1844 |
| Place of death | Paderborn |