Adam Franz Lennig

Adam Franz Lennig ( born December 3, 1803 in Mainz, † November 22, 1866 ) was a German Roman Catholic theologian. He was Domdekan and Vicar General of Mainz.

Family

Adam Franz Lennig is the son of Mainz tradesman Lennig Nicholas and his wife Elisabeth, born Menzler. His older brother Friedrich Lennig, was a writer, translator and dialect poet of Mainz and Rhine-Hessian dialect.

Education and ordination

Lennig visited the Rabanus Maurus -Gymnasium in Mainz. His parents gave him as a twelve year old boy in the educational care of the ex- Jesuit Laurentius Doller to Bruchsal and later to attend the episcopal school to Mainz. Because he was too young for ordination, his parents allowed him to study in Paris to learn at Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy Baron Oriental Languages ​​, Silvestre de Sacy was regarded as the founder of modern Arabic. After that it was Lennig allows his theological studies in Rome to continue. On September 22, 1827 at the age of 23 years, Adam Franz Lennig received in ordained a priest. He returned to his native town of Mainz, where he worked as a priest, anxious to achieve political goals.

Implement dispute ultramontane efforts

Lennig was an ultramontane theologian, which meant that he was a strong advocate of the rights of the Roman Catholic Church with the absolute papal authority of the Holy Father. As on 30 January 1830, the Government of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, who had been trying for some time to the internal affairs of the Church to influence, adopted 39 articles about the church administration, Lennig forwarded this article on to the Vatican and subsequently received a papal reply, a note of protest back. Since even Joseph Vitus Castle, the then Bishop of Mainz, these 39 articles defended Lennig then left Mainz and went to Bonn, there to hear the lectures of Johann Michael Sailer, Karl Joseph Hieronymus Windischmann and Heinrich Klee.

Pastorate in Gaulsheim - chapter of Mainz - Domdekan

In June 1832 Lennig took up a pastorate in Gaulsheim, now a district of Bingen am Rhein, although it had reached an offer to take over the chair of theology and exegesis in Mainz. 1839 Lennig pastor of Blessed city. Under Peter Kaiser Leopold, Bishop of Mainz, Adam Franz Lennig was included in the chapter of Mainz 1845. On March 23, 1848 Lennig called the Pius Association for Religious Freedom in life. Bishop Ketteler Emanuel appointed him vicar-general in 1852 and 1856 to Domdekan. Adam Franz Lennig was laid to rest at the Mainz main cemetery.