Siegmund of Bibra

Sigmund Freiherr von Bibra, 1790, engraved by Egid Verhelst (1733–1804), Mannheim

Sigmund Freiherr von Bibra

Philipp Anton von Bibra (since his profession on November 13, 1768 Siegmund von Bibra , also Sigmund von Bibra , born November 4, 1750 in Bamberg , † March 5, 1803 in Fulda ) was a German senior civil servant , priest , writer and editor of one Scholarly Journal in the Late Enlightenment . He comes from the noble family von Bibra and was both a Catholic and an enlightener .

Life

Bibra was from 1758 to 1761 pupil of the Bamberg Aufseesianum , 1761-1763 pupil of the Jesuit high school in Fulda and studied from 1763 to 1770 Catholic theology and canon law at the University of Fulda . He belonged to the Benedictines under the religious name "Sigmund". After attending the Knights' Academy in Kremsmünster from 1770–1772 , he was ordained a subdeacon in Fulda in 1772, where his relative Heinrich von Bibra was bishop, and on December 18, 1773, was ordained a priest. In 1767 he became a novice in the Fulda Abbey , made his profession there in 1768, became cantor in 1776 and capitular in 1778 .

Bibra was a member of the Illuminati Order , where his order name was "Clemens Alexander".

Services

Bibra held the following offices during his professional life:

• City of Fulda
  • Vice-President, Senior Councilor and Police President 1778–1782
• Principality of Fulda
  • spiritual government
    • Vice President 1778–1785
    • President 1785–1786
  • secular government
    • Hofrentkammer: President 1782–1785, 1788–1794
    • President 1786–1794
• University of Fulda: Rector 1782–1786, 1802–1803
• Archdiocese of Mainz : Council 1788–1803

In 1784 he was co-editor and from 1785 to 1792 he was editor of the Journal von und für Deutschland . He also wrote numerous writings. He took the position of a Catholic Enlightenment .

Footnotes

1. ^ Hermann Schüttler: The members of the Illuminati Order 1776 - 1787/93 . ars una Verlag, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-89391-018-2 , ( Deutsche Hochschuledition 18), p. 23.

literature

• Literature by and about Siegmund von Bibra in the catalog of the German National Library
• Michael Müller: Prince-Bishop Heinrich von Bibra and the Catholic Enlightenment in the Fulda Monastery (1759-88). Change and continuity of church life . Parzeller, Fulda 2005, ISBN 3-7900-0368-9 , ( Sources and treatises on the history of the abbey and diocese of Fulda 28), (At the same time: Innsbruck, Univ., Diss., 2004: Consilio et aequitate - The Catholic Enlightenment im Principality of Fulda ).
• Wilhelm Freiherr von Bibra: Contributions to the family history of the imperial barons of Bibra. (BD. 3), 1888 . Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf , pp. 131, 133, 134–138, 139, 143, 248, 274
• Martin Stingl: Imperial freedom and prince service. The service relations of von Bibra 1500 to 1806 . Degener, Neustadt ad Aisch 1994, ISBN 3-7686-9131-4 , ( Publications of the Society for Franconian History Series IX, 41), (Simultaneously: Erlangen, Univ., Diss., 1993), pp. 238-239.