!!!Zängerle, Roman Franz Xaver Sebastian

b. Oberkirchberg near Ulm (Germany), Jan. 20, 1771, 
d. Graz (Styria), April 27, 1848, theologian. Professor of New 
Testament Studies at the Universities of Kraków, Prague and 
Vienna. As bishop of Graz-Seckau (Styria) from 1824-1848 Z. carried 
out important reforms in the diocese, which had been vacant for 12 
years; in the face of great difficulties reformed the clergy, induced 
religious orders to settle in the area and achieved a religious 
revival.

!Literature
Ae. Leipold, R. F. X. S. Z. (1824-1848), 
in: K. Amon (ed.), Die Bischoefe von Graz-Seckau 1218-1968, 1969.



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