| Wilhelm
Emmanuel Ketteler |
Duitsland |
Bishop of Mainz, b. at Münster,
in Westphalia, 25 Dec., 1811; d. at Burghausen, 13 July, 1877. He
was about to enter the Prussian bureaucracy when, in 1837, the persecution
conducted by Prussia against Archbishop Droste-Vischering of Cologne
touched Ketteler's religious spirit and led him to resign. In 1841
he studied theology at Munich University, and in 1843 he completed
his preparation for the priesthood at the Seminary of Münster.
In 1844 he became a curate at Beckum and in 1846 rector of Hopsten
in Westphalia. Elected by the District of Tecklenburg und Warendorf
to the Frankfurt Parliament in 1848, Ketteler distinguished himself
by his broad and discerning intelligence of the social movements
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