Jakob Miller

Jacob Miller ( also Jacob Myller or Müller, * 1550 in Kißlegg, Allgaeu, † December 1, 1597 in Regensburg ) was a Catholic theologian reform, provost and diocesan administrator in Regensburg.

Life

Jacob Miller studied at Germanicum in Rome and in 1578 preacher in Konstanz, then until he was deposed in 1585 visitator of the diocese of Constance. From 1586 he has worked for the diocese of Regensburg as Administrator in spiritualibus. In Regensburg Miller reached the establishment of a Jesuit college, wrote new Diocesan Constitutions and sat down for the results of the Council of Trent in the diocese a. For the first infulierten provost of Regensburg, he was appointed in 1592.

" The canons Miller was the spearhead of the Tridentine minded party in the Regensburg cathedral chapter and so is of great importance for the Council of Trent also strongly committed Regensburg Bishop Philip of Bavaria, a son of William V. Miller ... was certainly of great importance for the Bishop, as the city was almost completely back in the hands of the Lutherans. "

His extensive literary work includes, among other things, a record of the features of Churches, which he wrote in German and Latin.

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Works

• Ornatus ecclesiasticus: hoc est: compendium praecipuarum rerum, quibus quaevis rite decenterque compositae exornari ... Publisher mountain, Munich 1591