Wilhelm Arnoldi

This article describes the Bishop Wilhelm Arnoldi. The ministerial director of the same name can be found under Wilhelm Arnoldi (civil servant) .

Wilhelm Arnoldi

Wilhelm Arnoldi (born January 4, 1798 in Bath near Bitburg in the Eifel , † January 7, 1864 in Trier ) was Bishop of Trier from 1842 to 1864.

Life

Wilhelm Arnoldi attended the seminary in Trier and received the 1821 ordination . As a professor of oriental languages , biblical archeology and homiletics , he taught at the Trier seminary. In 1826 he exchanged his teaching activities for the pastor's position in Laufeld in the Eifel, but was called to Wittlich as city pastor as early as 1831 . In 1834 he returned to Trier as cathedral preacher and cathedral capitular .

The government refused to confirm his election as bishop in 1839 because Arnoldi had opposed the government on the question of mixed marriages . Only after a second election on June 21, 1842, was he confirmed as bishop by Friedrich Wilhelm IV . On September 17, 1842, he was ordained Bishop of Trier by Johannes von Geissel .

During his tenure, he favored the foundation of monasteries and restored the discipline of the clergy . The Trier pilgrimage of 1844 to the “ Holy Rock of Christ ” exhibited in Trier Cathedral and kept since the Middle Ages , to which Arnoldi had called, which gave the external cause for the German-Catholic movement , caused a great stir . He showed particular interest in church art.

In 1855 Arnoldi consecrated the newly built parish church of St. Laurentius in Saarburg.

On September 24, 1857, the parish church of St. Nicholas was consecrated in Kottenheim .

After a stroke, Bishop Arnoldi died on January 7, 1864 in Trier.

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Arnoldi, Wilhelm. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 242-243.
• Franz Xaver Kraus :  Arnoldi, Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, pp. 593-595.
• Aloys Thomas :  Arnoldi, Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 390 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Martin Persch , Bernhard Schneider (Hrsg.): On the way to the modern age - history of the diocese of Trier . Volume 4. Paulinus Verlag, Trier 2002, ISBN 3-7902-0274-6 .
• Martin Persch, Michael Embach (ed.): The bishops of Trier since 1802. Festive gift for Bishop Dr. Hermann Josef Spital on his 70th birthday on December 31, 1995. (= publications of the Trier diocese archive , volume 30). Paulinus Verlag, 1996.
• Latest items . In: Allgemeine Zeitung . No. 10 , January 10, 1864, ISSN  0340-1375 , p. 152 .
• Jakob Kraft : Wilhelm Arnoldi, Bishop of Trier. A picture of life . Trier 1865.

Web links

• Entry on Wilhelm Arnoldi on catholic-hierarchy.org
• Wilhelm Arnoldi on Saarland biographies

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Sachs: 'Prince Bishop and Vagabond'. The story of a friendship between the Prince-Bishop of Breslau Heinrich Förster (1799–1881) and the writer and actor Karl von Holtei (1798–1880). Edited textually based on the original Holteis manuscript. In: Medical historical messages. Journal for the history of science and specialist prose research , Volume 35, 2016 (2018), pp. 223–291, here: pp. 242–244.
2. ↑ Chronicle of the Saarburg fire brigade up to its 175th anniversary (PDF; p. 3) accessed on April 29, 2014.
3. ^ Claudius Engelhardt: The parish church in Kottenheim: A tour through the church and its history. BoD - Books in Demand, Norderstedt 2014, ISBN 978-3-7322-9829-7 .
4. ↑ Latest Post . In: Allgemeine Zeitung . No. 10 , January 10, 1864, ISSN  0340-1375 , p. 152 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Josef von Hommer	Bishop of Trier 1842–1864	Leopold Pelldram