Franz von Dietrichstein
Franz Seraph von Dietrich Stein ( Czech František z Ditrichštejna; * August 22, 1570 in Madrid, † September 19, 1636 in Brno ) was Bishop of Olomouc and cardinal.
Biography
He came from the Austrian nobility Dietrichsteinplatz. His parents were the imperial diplomat Adam Dietrich Stein and Margaret († 1609), daughter of the Sardinian Viceroy Antonio Folche Duque de Cardona (House Folch de Cardona ).
Dietrich Stein studied at the universities of Vienna and Prague and at the Pontifical University in Rome, Collegio Romano. At the age of 21, he became the canon in Olomouc, two years later in Breslau and Passau. 1594 he was appointed provost of the collegiate Leitmeritzer. In 1597 he was ordained a priest in 1599 by Pope Clement VIII to Cardinal of the titular church of San Silvestro in Capite ( 're 1623) appointed.
In the same year the Olomouc Cathedral Chapter elected the imperial and papal ideal candidate Franz Seraph von Dietrich stone to succeed the late Bishop Stanislaus 1598 Pavlovský of Pavlovitz. The inauguration took place only in Olomouc on 9 June in 1600. As a bishop he was one of the champions of the Counter-Reformation, where he pursued the Catholic renewal in the spirit of the Jesuit Philip Neri. He was regarded as representative of the baroque humanism and campaigned for art, science and the education of the people.
From 1602 he was Deputy Governor of Moravia. 1607 Emperor Rudolf II appointed him as President of the Privy Council. 1608 to 1611 he represented the Emperor in negotiations with his brother Matthias and crowned this 1611 King of Bohemia. 1617 he crowned his successor, Ferdinand II
Together with Charles the Elder of Zerotin he reached that the Moravian estates in the uprising of 1618 did not participate. After the temporary victory of the Bohemian Protestants Dietrichsteinplatz in 1619 overthrown and expelled from the country. His goods were confiscated. After the Battle of White Mountain, he returned from Vienna and received both his confiscated estates of two other reigns of Emperor Ferdinand II paid. More possessions, such as the 1611 rule Roseburg in Lower Austria, he acquired should be bought. With his fortune he founded numerous monasteries. He was one of the advocates of recatholicization and reached that the Catholic Church in Moravia became important. After 1620 he was promoted to Commissioner-General and Governor of Moravia. 1622 he served as judges against the insurgents. A year before his death, he was "Protector Germaniae ". On March 16, 1624, he was raised in Vienna by Emperor Ferdinand II as the first representative of the house Dietrichsteinplatz in the hereditary imperial princes. This with the right to a prince - to pass on - especially to his nephew. Cardinal Ditrichstein then put his nephew Maximilian of Dietrichsteinplatz sole heir and successor in the princely dignity a.
The left by him library Mikulov Castle ( German Nikolsburg ) 1645 stolen by the Swedes.