Adam Friedrich von Seinsheim (1708-1779)
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- Name (English)
- Adam Friedrich von Seinsheim
- Short name
- Adam Friedrich von Seinsheim
- Year of birth
- 1708
- Year of death
- 1779
- Short Description
- "Adam Friedrich Graf von Seinsheim (1708–1779) was the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg from 1755 to 1779 and Prince-Bishop of Bamberg from 1757 to 1779.
Adam Friedrich von Seinsheim was born in Regensburg on 16 February 1708, the son of Maximilian Franz Graf von Seinsheim (1681-1739) and his wife Anna Philippina Gräfin von Schönborn (1685-1721). His mother was the sister of Franz Georg von Schönborn, Archbishop-Elector of Trier; Friedrich Karl von Schönborn, Prince-Bishop of Bamberg and Würzburg; and Damian Hugo Philipp von Schönborn, Prince-Bishop of Speyer.
He became a canon of Bamberg Cathedral and Würzburg Cathedral in 1718. He studied Christian theology at the University of Salzburg (master´s degree 1724) and at the Collegium Germanicum 1725-27; and law at the University of Würzburg and Leiden University. In 1747, he became provost of the Church of St. Gangolf in Bamberg. He was ordained as a priest on 29 September 1753." - (en.wikipedia.org 31.01.2020) - Entity Encoding
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Brief von Karl Eugen, Herzog von Württemberg, an den Bischof von Bamberg vom 12.8.1776
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