Richard Maria Steininger

Richard Maria Steininger (born March 3, 1792 in St. Wendel , † January 14, 1861 in Trier ) was a German theologian and canon in Trier.

Live and act

Steininger, the older brother of the geologist Johannes Steininger , attended secondary school in Trier from 1806 to 1809 , then entered the seminary there and in 1811 acquired the title of Bachelier en lettres . After being ordained a priest in 1815, he was appointed professor of exegesis in the same year and, in 1816, sub-rain of the seminary, an office which he held until his appointment to cathedral chapter in 1846. As early as 1839, Steininger was shortlisted when looking for a successor to the late Bishop of Trier, Joseph von Hommer . He was the only opposing candidate, supported in particular by the older capitulars, of Wilhelm Arnoldi , who was ultimately elected by the cathedral chapter but was not consecrated until 1842 due to a lack of confirmation by the Prussian government . The defeated Steininger was described in this context as an “extremely pious and Roman Catholic-minded priest”, but the majority of the 12-member electoral body feared that “after a long, lonely life he would not have the strength and agility had to adequately fulfill the duties required of a bishop during this time. ”Steininger, who also enjoyed a high reputation as a scholar and a highly regarded adaptation of the Codex Simeonis based on one in the Trier cathedral treasury from 10/11. The manuscript of this Greek lectionary, which has been handed down to us in the 19th century, was buried in the cloister of Trier Cathedral after his death . He bequeathed his valuable library to the local seminary.

Fonts

Codex Sancti Simeonis exhibens Lectionarium Ecclesiae Graecae DCCC circiter annorum vetustate insigne. Trier 1834 ( online at Google Books ).

Honors

1861 August 4 (university anniversary): Honorary doctorate ( Doctor honoris causa ) by the Catholic theological faculty of the University of Wroclaw .

literature

Julius Bettingen: History of the city and the office of St. Wendel. St. Wendel 1865, pp. 625-627.
Max Müller: The history of the city of St. Wendel from its beginnings to the world wars. St. Wendel 1927, pp. 670-673.
Hans Klaus Schmitt: Family table of the St. Wendel family Steininger. In: Heimatbuch des Landkreis St. Wendel 11 (1965/1966), pp. 67–72, p. 70 No. 18.

Web links

Art. Steininger Richard Maria bei Saarland Biographies .
Art. Steininger, Richard Maria at Rhineland-Palatinate personal database .

Individual evidence

↑ Deviating, probably inaccurate information can be found on February 3rd at Saarland Biographies and Rhineland-Palatinate Personal Database (see web links) and on March 4th at Historical Research Roland Geiger .
↑ The assertion made on various occasions that Steininger attended the Progymnasium in St. Wendel cannot be true: The first higher educational institution on site was a private school operated by Johannes Schué since 1820, which was converted into the public lyceum in St. Wendel founded in 1824 , which was finally expanded into a Progymnasium in 1855. The Nekrolog of January 17, 1861 quoted by Müller: Geschichte (see literature) p. 671, according to which Steininger was “equipped with the necessary elementary school knowledge”, that is in St. Wendel, is probably correct .
^ Historical-political papers for Catholic Germany 3 (1839), p. 647 ( online at Google Books ).
^ S. Writings. - Cf. Georg Bärsch: The Moselstrom from Metz to Coblenz, a geographical-historical-statistical-topographical handbook for travelers and locals. Carl Troschel, Trier 1841, p. 546 f. ( online at Google Books).
^ Franz Rudolf Reichert: Inventory development and inventory structure of the libraries of seminaries - paradigmatically demonstrated at the library of the Trier seminary. In: Library and book inventory through the ages. Library history studies (= book scholarly contributions from the German Book Archive Munich. Vol. 8). Edited by Franz A. Bienert and Karl-Heinz Weimann. Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1984 ISBN 3-447-02455-0 , pp. 65-82, p. 74 ( online preview at Google Books).
^ Karl Pretzsch: Directory of the Breslau university publications 1811–1885. Breslau 1905, p. 340 No. 82 ( online at Internet Archive ); Steiniger had already died at the time of the award (ibid. Note 1).

personal data
SURNAME	Steininger, Richard Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German theologian and canon in Trier
DATE OF BIRTH	March 3, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH	St. Wendel
DATE OF DEATH	January 14, 1861
Place of death	trier

[1] Deviating, probably inaccurate information can be found on February 3rd at Saarland Biographies and Rhineland-Palatinate Personal Database (see web links) and on March 4th at Historical Research Roland Geiger .

[2] The assertion made on various occasions that Steininger attended the Progymnasium in St. Wendel cannot be true: The first higher educational institution on site was a private school operated by Johannes Schué since 1820, which was converted into the public lyceum in St. Wendel founded in 1824 , which was finally expanded into a Progymnasium in 1855. The Nekrolog of January 17, 1861 quoted by Müller: Geschichte (see literature) p. 671, according to which Steininger was “equipped with the necessary elementary school knowledge”, that is in St. Wendel, is probably correct .

[3] Historical-political papers for Catholic Germany 3 (1839), p. 647 ( online at Google Books ).

[4] S. Writings. - Cf. Georg Bärsch: The Moselstrom from Metz to Coblenz, a geographical-historical-statistical-topographical handbook for travelers and locals. Carl Troschel, Trier 1841, p. 546 f. ( online at Google Books).

[5] Franz Rudolf Reichert: Inventory development and inventory structure of the libraries of seminaries - paradigmatically demonstrated at the library of the Trier seminary. In: Library and book inventory through the ages. Library history studies (= book scholarly contributions from the German Book Archive Munich. Vol. 8). Edited by Franz A. Bienert and Karl-Heinz Weimann. Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1984 ISBN 3-447-02455-0 , pp. 65-82, p. 74 ( online preview at Google Books).

[6] Karl Pretzsch: Directory of the Breslau university publications 1811–1885. Breslau 1905, p. 340 No. 82 ( online at Internet Archive ); Steiniger had already died at the time of the award (ibid. Note 1).