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FRANZ LUDWIG VON ERTHAL

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Prince-Bishop of Würzburg and Bamberg, b. at Lohr on the Main, 16 September,
1730; d. at Würzburg, 16 February, 1795. After studying theology at Mainz,
Würzburg, and Rome, and jurisprudence at Vienna he became president of the
secular Government of Würzburg in 1762. When he was sent in 1768 as Ambassador
to Vienna to get the imperial investiture for Adam Friedrich, Count von
Seinsheim, the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg, Emperor Joseph II made him imperial
privy councillor and inspector of the Imperial Chamber (Supreme Court of the
empire) at Wetzlar. In 1776 he took part as imperial commissioner in the Diet of
Ratisbon. He succeeded Adam Friedrich as Prince-Bishop of Würzburg, 18 March,
1779, and as Prince-Bishop of Bamberg on the following 12 April. His rule was a
blessing for Church and State. Being himself deeply religious he endeavoured to
imbue his clergy and people with the spirit of true faith and piety. As far as
the Church and his episcopal position permitted, he yielded to the rationalistic
tendencies of the age, but was a stanch defender of papal rights against the
adherents of Febronianism. As temporal ruler he never allowed personal
considerations to outweigh the welfare of the people, and used his private means
for the erection and improvement of charitable institutions. At Bamberg he
founded a hospital which at that time was a model of its kind, and at Würzburg
he greatly improved and partly rebuilt the already existing hospital of St.
Julius. He improved the entire educational system, bettered the economic
conditions of rural life and of the civil administration, and set the finances
of his principalities on a firm basis. Von Erthal is the author of a work in
German, refuting the revolutionary principles of his age, which is entitled:
"Ueber den herrschenden Geist dieser Zeiten und uber das Verhalten des
rechtschaffenen Christen bei denselben" (Würzburg, 1793). Some of his sermons
were collected and published after his death (Bamberg, 1797).


ABOUT THIS PAGE

APA citation. Ott, M. (1909). Franz Ludwig von Erthal. In The Catholic
Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05525c.htm

MLA citation. Ott, Michael. "Franz Ludwig von Erthal." The Catholic
Encyclopedia. Vol. 5. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1909.
<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05525c.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Gerald M. Knight.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. May 1, 1909. Remy Lafort, Censor.
Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York.

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