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).
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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 |