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Joseph Othmar von Rauscher

Austrian cardinal
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Oct. 6, 1797, Vienna
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Nov. 24, 1875, Vienna (aged 78)
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Joseph Othmar von Rauscher (born Oct. 6, 1797, Vienna—died Nov. 24, 1875, Vienna) was a cardinal and the influential tutor of the Habsburg emperor Francis Joseph; he was the primary engineer of the Austro-papal concordat of 1855. Raised to the priesthood in 1823, Rauscher was appointed professor of church history and canon law at the Salzburg lyceum in 1825, director of the Oriental Academy in Vienna in 1832, and tutor of the future emperor Francis Joseph in 1844. Consecrated bishop of Seckau (1849) and subsequently archbishop (1853) and cardinal (1855) of Vienna, he devoted himself to the task of removing ...(100 of 239 words)

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