Joseph Mohr

Joseph Franz Mohr ( born December 11, 1792 in Salzburg, Archbishopric of Salzburg, Holy Roman Empire, † December 4, 1848 in Wagrain, Salzburg county, Empire of Austria ) was an Austrian priest and poet.

Life

Joseph Mohr was born as one of several illegitimate children Musketeer Franz Mohr Mary Parish in Salzburg's Lungau and his later wife Anna (nee Schoiber ) in the city of Salzburg and grew up in the house stone alley No. 31. With the financial support of the Salzburg Domvikars Johann Nepomuk Hiernle, the estimated Mohr's musical talent, he was able to study in Upper Austria at the Gymnasium of the Benedictine monastery Kremsmuenster first at the Academic Gymnasium Salzburg and from 1808 to 1810 to finally begin a three-year study of theology in Salzburg 1811. He was on 21 August 1815, after confirmation by the Pope ( illegitimate children at the time required a special permit ), consecrated by the Bishop of Passau Karl Cajetan for the priest.

Following his ordination, Mohr was only one and a half months working in Ramsau near Berchtesgaden and from October 1815 to the summer of 1817 in the home of his father's congregation Maria parish as coadjutor. There he wrote the poem in 1816 Silent night, holy night. In September 1817 Mohr went to Oberndorf bei Salzburg, to support the Pfarrprovisor Josef Kessler. Shortly afterwards complained in early October the successor Kessler, Georg Heinrich Joseph Nöstler, the Consistory in Salzburg on Mohr. This complaint, however, was invalidated by the report requested by the consistory of the Dean and parish priest at St. Georgen, and so remained Mohr in Oberndorf. Before Christmas 1818 Joseph Mohr put his poem the teacher Franz Xaver Gruber ago with a request for it to compose a suitable melody. In the Christmas on December 24, 1818 Christmas carol Silent Night, Holy Night by Franz Xaver Gruber ( vocals) and Joseph Mohr (vocals, guitar accompaniment ) was premiered in the Saint Nikola Church in Oberndorf. After that, the song achieved worldwide fame. In September 1819 Mohr Oberndorf left. Further stations were the Salzburg parishes Kuchl, Golling, Vigaun, Anthering, Eugen village, courtyard and Hintersee ( 1827-1837 ). In 1837 Mohr worked as a curate in the Gothic parish church of Wagrain.

While Mohr had already triggered in the upper village with its social commitment for different responses, he found in Wagrain more than 10 years to leave positive traces. He caused a new school building, where previously there was only one classroom for more than 100 children, established a compensation fund to enable the children of destitute parents the ( paid ) school and took care of the old and the poor. On his initiative, also later created the poor and old people's home goes back. In Wagrain, Mohr finally died on December 4, 1848, paralysis of the lungs and found at the local cemetery his final resting place.

Posthumous honors

  • Wagrain: grave of honor and there is named after him elementary school that annually performs Joseph Mohr commemoration in December
  • Salzburg: plaque at the birthplace in the stone alley No. 9 and Mohrenstrasse
  • Oberndorf bei Salzburg: Silent Night Chapel and Museum in the immediate vicinity of the Memorial Chapel
  • Maria Parish: Still Carnival Museum in Maria parish
  • Recognition of the song " Silent Night, Holy Night" as Intangible Cultural Heritage in Austria in May 2011
  • Recognition by the film " The Eternal Song " by Franz Xaver Bogner
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