Joseph Othmar Rauscher
Joseph Othmar Rauscher Knight (* October 6, 1797 in Vienna, † November 24, 1875 ibid ) was a Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vienna and a cardinal.
Life
Rauscher, eldest son of the Imperial Ruling Council Franz Seraph Knights of Rauscher studied 1816 first law in Vienna. There he met Clement Maria Hofbauer, and began in 1820 to study theology. He was ordained priest on 21 August 1823. From 1825 he was professor of church history and canon law at the Lyceum in Salzburg. Since 1832, he was Director of the Oriental Academy in Vienna. He was appointed in 1849 to the Prince-Bishop of Seckau. He received his episcopal consecration of the Archbishop of Salzburg Friedrich zu Schwarzenberg on 15 April 1849. March 26, 1853, the appointment was made archbishop of the Archdiocese of Vienna and on 17 December 1855, the elevation to cardinal. He was assigned the titular church of Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.
He was instrumental in the conclusion of the Concordat between the Catholic Church and the imperial residence. It was signed on August 18, 1855, ended the Josephinism.
In 1856 he founded the Archbishop's minor seminary in Vienna VI.
From 1861 he also introduced the title of Prince Archbishop, and had as a member of the manor a seat in the Imperial Parliament.
1868 Franz Schmid protested, mayor of the small community sub - lance village near Vienna, against the visitation of the Archbishop in the parish of Maria Lanz village because he was of the opinion of Othmar Rauscher's church policy is contrary to the new state constitution. The Viennese church newspaper responded with two hostile articles that even appeared as a special edition.
Othmar Rauscher saw themselves as defenders of religious marriage and called the civil marriage in a pastoral letter as " sinful concubinage. "
He also participated in the First Vatican Council, and was a leader of Inopportunisten who opposed the dogma of papal infallibility, because they regarded it as not " opportune ". He traveled on July 17 1870 from ( on the eve of the resolution) of Rome. The dogma itself, he acknowledged. The dogma of infallibility was the pretext for the repeal of the Concordat by the government in 1870.
He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Stephen, and the Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold.
Reception
Named after him are the Rauscherstraße the 2nd and 20th district Leopoldstadt or Brigittenau (1869 ), the Othmargasse (1869 ) and the local Cardinal Rauscher - yard in the 20th district, as well as the Cardinal Rauscher -Platz in the 15th district Rudolf -Fuenfhaus (1891 ). The Othmar church in Vienna's Landstrasse was ordained its gratitude for the support of the holy Othmar.
Trivia
On April 24, 1854 dared Archbishop Rauscher in Vienna's St. Augustine's Church, the Imperial couple Franz Joseph I and Elizabeth. His preaching is said to have lasted more than 1.5 hours, which he henceforth known as the " Archbishop Plauscher " earned.