WITTMANN, GEORG MICHAEL. - Bishop, b. 22 Jan. 1760 at Finkenhammer (Upper Palatinate), d. 8 March 1833 at Regensburg.

Ordained priest at Regensburg (1782), after some years of pastoral care he became vice-rector (1788), then rector (1803) of the Seminary and parish priest of the cathedral of Regensburg (1804-29). A great friend of the poor and the sick, he exerted himself during the great fire that destroyed a part of the city (1809) and in the spiritual care of the French sick with typhus in the military hospital. Auxiliary bishop (1829), then vicar general (1830), after the death of Bishop Michael Sailer (1832) he became diocesan bishop. He was venerated as a saint.

Among his works: Principia catholica de S. Scriptura (Regensburg 1793); Die Heilige Schrift des Neuen Testamenten nach der Vulgata übersetzt (Nuremberg 1808: 25 editions up to 1829, last edition at Sulzbach in 1874).

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BIBL.: R. Mittermüller, Leben und Wirken des frommen Bischofs M. W. von Regensburg, Landshut 1859; J. B. Mehler, Lebensbeschreibung des frommen Bischofs M. W. von Regensburg, 2nd ed., Regensburg 1894.

Hermine Kühn-Steinhausen

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Wittmann, Georg Michael

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