Karl-August von Reisach
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His Eminence Karl-August von Reisach |
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| Cardinal Archbishop of Munich and Freising | |
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| Archdiocese | Munich and Freising |
| See | Munich and Freising |
| Appointed | 12 July 1841 (Coadjutor) |
| Installed | 25 January 1847 |
| Term ended | 19 June 1856 |
| Predecessor | Lothar Anselm von Gebsattel |
| Successor | Gregor von Scherr |
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| Ordination | 10 August 1828 |
| Consecration | 17 July 1836 by Pope Gregory XVI |
| Created Cardinal | 17 December 1855 by Pope Pius IX |
| Rank | Cardinal-Bishop |
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| Born |
6 July 1800 Roth |
| Died | 22 December 1869 (aged 69) |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Previous post | Bishop of Eichstätt (1836-1841) |
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Karl-August von Reisach (7 July 1800, in Roth, Bavaria – 22 December 1869, in the Redemptorist monastery of Contamine, France) was a German Catholic theologian and Cardinal.
On the completion of his secular studies in Neuburg an der Donau, he studied philosophy at Munich (1816), and jurisprudence at Heidelberg, Göttingen, and Landshut, securing (1821) the Degree of Doctor Juris Utriusque. Devoting himself a little later to the study of theology, he received minor orders at Innsbruck in 1824, was ordained in 1828 after philosophical and theological studies in the German College at Rome, and in the following year graduated Doctor of Theology.
Pope Pius VII appointed him rector of studies at the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, an office which brought him into close relations with its prefect, Cardinal-Priest Bartolomeo Cappellari, who later became Pope Gregory XVI.
Urged to devote special attention to the affairs of the Catholic Church in Germany, he attacked the current anti-ecclesiastical views and tendencies, especially with regard to mixed marriages, in his work Was haben wir von den Reformatoren und Stimmführen des katholischen Deutschland unserer Tage zu halten?, which appeared at Mainz in 1835 under the pseudonym Athanasius Sincerus Philalethes.
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