Christoph Moufang

Ignaz Franz Christoph Moufang ( born February 17, 1817 in Mainz, † February 27, 1890 in Mainz ) was a Roman Catholic theologian, politician and diocesan administrator of the Diocese of Mainz.

Family

Christoph Moufang is the son of Wilhelm Moufang (1779-1845), a merchant in Mainz and his wife Catherine Wilhelmine, daughter of the businessman Nicholas Lennig. For Christoph Moufangs known family members include his uncle Friedrich Lennig and Adam Franz Lennig, his nephew Edmund Hardy religious historian and Indologist. Nicola and Racke, member of the Reichstag.

Life and work

Christoph Moufang studied in Mainz, Bonn, Munich and Giessen medicine and theology and was ordained in Mainz on 19 December 1839 priests. After several positions in the diocese of Mainz, he was appointed in 1851 by Bishop Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler, the rector of the newly founded Mainz Seminary.

In these years one of the most important benefits fell by inheritance to the diocese of Mainz. By testamentary dispositions bequeathed Johann Friedrich Heinrich Schlosser, also named Fritz, his 35,000 -volume library Mainz seminary. During the period of appeal Christoph Moufangs the rector of the seminary was also important, now much expanded, Library of the seminar in Moufangs care.

After the death of Bishop von Ketteler Moufang was elected bishop by the chapter on July 13, 1877; but the choice is not confirmed by the Grand Duke of Hesse government and would not therefore be ordained a bishop. He led this reason the diocese as administrator by the Holy See is vacant during the time of the Kulturkampf to the consecration of Bishop Haffner in 1886, and then led his first job as rector of the seminary away again.

Moufang belonged, like his uncle Franz Adam Lennig the initiators of the German Catholics days. The first Catholic Congress found in 1848 in Mainz. In 1868, Pope Pius IX was Moufang. appointed to the Commission for the preparation of the First Vatican Council ( 1869-1870 ).

In addition to his church office took Moufang, like many other princes of the Church of his time, just like its predecessor, an active part in politics. Moufang founded in 1862, the Centre Party Hesse. He represented Bishop Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler 1862-1877 in the first chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and belonged from 1871 to 1890 the center party in the German Reichstag. During this time he represented from 1871 to 1873 the constituency Koblenz Region 5 ( Mayen - Ahrweiler ), from 1874 to 1881 the constituency Grand Duchy of Hesse 9 (Mainz) and from 1881 to 1890 the constituency Cologne 6 ( Mülheim am Rhein - Wipperfuerth - Gummersbach ). Moufang themed early on the " social question " and presented considerations on this, later found themselves in the theories of the social market economy.

• Christoph Moufang was buried in the main cemetery Mainz.