Theobald Mansharter

Coat of arms of the Principality of Speyer

Title page of the book from 1594

Theobald Mansharter (born around 1570 in Speyer ; † September 29, 1610 ) was a German collegiate dean and auxiliary bishop in Speyer and titular bishop of Daulia .

Live and act

He was the son of the lecturer or reader of the same name (legally trained clerk) at the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Speyer . This is documented there from 1561.

Theobald Mansharter attended the Jesuit school in Speyer and studied at the universities of Mainz and Würzburg . In Mainz he worked as prefect of the Marian Student Congregation , in Würzburg he presented a scientific work in 1594, which appeared with the publications of two other authors in the volume De Viventium Partibus Philosophema pro Honoribus Philosophici . According to the title page of the publication, Mansharter was at that time the monastery capital of St. German and St. Moritz zu Speyer.

On October 2, 1599 he enrolled as the dean of St. German and St. Moritz at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau , where he received his doctorate in theology.

At the beginning of 1605 Mansharter was appointed by Bishop Eberhard von Dienheim as coadjutor of the Speyer Auxiliary Bishop Dionys Burckard , after his death (May 14th 1605) he succeeded him. He was ordained as titular bishop of Daulia on April 3, 1606.

He held the offices of collegiate dean and auxiliary bishop until his death in 1610.

His brother Marquard, also a canon to St. German and Moritz, donated 1,000 guilders for the monastery and then joined the Carthusian order .

literature

Ludwig Stamer : Church history of the Palatinate , 3rd part, 1st volume, p. 188, Pilger Verlag Speyer, 1954; (Detail scan)

Web links

Entry on Theobald Mansharter on catholic-hierarchy.org

Individual evidence

↑ Joseph Seitz: Treatise from the visitation of the chamber court chancellery , Mainz, 1791, p. 26; (Digital scan)
^ Georgium Corvinum, Sigismundum Feierabent, Petrum Fabricium: Annotata de personis judicii camerae imperialis , Frankfurt am Main, 1672; (Digital scan)
^ Franz Xaver Remling : History of the Bishops of Speyer , Volume 2, Page 410, Mainz, Kirchheim, 1854; (Digital scan)
^ Digital scan of the publication from 1594
^ Hermann Mayer: The register of the University of Freiburg im Breisgau from 1460-1656 , Freiburg, 1907, Volume 1, p. 700; (Digital scan)
↑ Konrad Eubel: Hierarchia catholica medii aevi, sive, Summorum pontificum, SRE cardinalium, ecclesiarum antistitum series , Volume 4, p. 173, Regensburg, 1935; (Detail scan)

personal data
SURNAME	Mansharter, Theobald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German collegiate dean and auxiliary bishop in Speyer and titular bishop of Daulia
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1570
DATE OF DEATH	September 29, 1610

[1] Joseph Seitz: Treatise from the visitation of the chamber court chancellery , Mainz, 1791, p. 26; (Digital scan)

[2] Georgium Corvinum, Sigismundum Feierabent, Petrum Fabricium: Annotata de personis judicii camerae imperialis , Frankfurt am Main, 1672; (Digital scan)

[3] Franz Xaver Remling : History of the Bishops of Speyer , Volume 2, Page 410, Mainz, Kirchheim, 1854; (Digital scan)

[4] Digital scan of the publication from 1594

[5] Hermann Mayer: The register of the University of Freiburg im Breisgau from 1460-1656 , Freiburg, 1907, Volume 1, p. 700; (Digital scan)

[6] Konrad Eubel: Hierarchia catholica medii aevi, sive, Summorum pontificum, SRE cardinalium, ecclesiarum antistitum series , Volume 4, p. 173, Regensburg, 1935; (Detail scan)