Franz Ignaz von Streber

Franz Ignaz von nerd ( born February 11, 1758 in rice creek ( Lower Bavaria ), † April 26, 1841 in Munich) was provost and auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, and Titular Bishop of Birtha. He was known as a numismatist and Head of the Bavarian Coin Cabinet.

Life

1765 nerd was incorporated as a choirboy in the Knabenseminarium to Landshut. In 1774 he entered the College of Bartholomäer one to Ingolstadt and acquired there in 1776 the degree of Magister Philosophiae and 1779 to a Magister Theologiae (1779 ). On December 23, 1780, he was ordained a priest.

Then the priest spent 10 years private secretary to the administrative officer and historian Johann Goswin Aries ( 1734-1800 ) in Munich, and educator whose son Gabriel Bernard of ram, and afterwards the provincial government of Upper Bavaria. To Strebers tasks in this also included the maintenance of the " Ram 's coin collection ."

Because of these numismatic experience, he was appointed in 1782 Assistant to the later Cardinal John Casimir Häffelin, who supervised the Electoral Numismatic Collection at the Munich court. Supported by Häffelin and its successors nerd acquired such extensive knowledge of numismatics that he was in 1785 appointed director of the electoral coin collections. He was instrumental in helping to arrange the coins according to scientific standards and explore.

Already since 1783, served as a chaplain nerd and 1792, he became the censorship Council. 1797 was chosen nerds as deputy director in the board of the "Spiritual Council " and in the years 1799 to 1802, he led it as a director.

The highlight of Strebers secular career was 1803, the appointment to the real Hofkapelldirektor; his ecclesiastical career appointment as auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising on 24 September 1821 his consecration as Titular Bishop of Birtha on December 16, 1821 by nuncio Francesco Serra di Cassano, and the elevation to dean 1822. During the same year he also became the Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences appointed.

Since autumn 1840 ailing, to swot pulled early 1841 returned to private life and died at the age of 83 years on 26 April of the same year in Munich. He was under the arcades of the Old Südfriedhofs (then Central Cemetery ) buried Munich. His biographer of Sigmund Knights of Riezler emphasizes the " gentleness, kindness and unlimited benevolence " as the most salient traits of the bishop and writes about him in addition:

"It was granted to him to get through to King Ludwig I with its use for restoring (1835 ) of the monastery Blessed Thal bei Landshut, einzusegnen his own parents after fifty years of marriage for the second time, even to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary anniversary as a priest. On the open market as the old man held in Reisbach the sermon, in the beloved home, their education and other nonprofit institutions owe their beneficent son a number of foundations. Swot died on 26 April 1841 for a harmonious life that never had a disease that never tarnished a passion, death appeared to him so much as the brother of sleep that the unchanged appearance of the corpse the idea of ​​suspended animation called awake. King Ludwig, who heard the rumor was, determined by his personal physician death. "

Swot had received in his last years of life, the one with his friend, the tenor Anton Raaff (1714-1797) with him, which resulted in a decidedly religious life, but was also nice spiritually and scientifically interesting.

In the birthplace of rice creek was erected in 1845 on the main square a joint memorial for the three most famous sons of the community, there sees the light of day in 20 years and had become famous ecclestiastical all: Franz Ignaz von nerds, the naturalist Maximus von Imhof and the Bishop of Regensburg, Franz Xaver Schwäbl.

The archaeologist Franz nerd (1806-1864) was the nephew of Bishop Franz Ignaz nerd.

Works (selection)

Publications on numismatic topics ( be added later),