!!!Rauscher, Joseph Othmar von

Rauscher, Joseph Othmar von, b. Vienna, Oct. 6, 1797, 
d. Vienna, Nov. 24, 1875, theologian, church politician, writer, 
philosophy teacher to the young Emperor Franz Joseph I, 
prince-archbishop of Vienna (1853), cardinal (1855). 1825 professor of 
ecclesiastical history and ecclesiastical law in Salzburg, 1832 
Director of the Oriental Academy in Vienna and advisor on church 
affairs in Metternich´s State Chancellery, 1849 Bishop of Seckau 
and administrator of Leoben. Author of the  Concordat  of 1855; 1857 
successfully demanded the condemnation of the teachings of Anton  
Guenther by the church. 1861 member of the Upper Chamber of the 
Reichsrat and the Landtag of Lower Austria.

!Works
Geschichte der christlichen Kirche, 2 vols., 1829; 
Hirtenbriefe, Predigten, Anreden, 1858; Das Concordat, 1868.

!Literature
OeBL.



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