{"id":543427,"date":"2021-09-30T15:57:31","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T13:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salzburgerland.com\/en\/?p=543427"},"modified":"2021-11-10T14:29:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T13:29:31","slug":"joseph-mohr-1792-1848","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salzburgerland.com\/en\/joseph-mohr-1792-1848\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Mohr (1792 \u2013 1848)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Childhood and adolescence from 1792 to 1815 in the city of Salzburg<\/h2>\n

Joseph Franz Mohr was born in\u00a0Salzburg\u00a0<\/a><\/span>as a child out of wedlock on 11 December 1792. His mother was the knitter Anna Schoiber, born in Hallein. His father, whose family was from Mariapfarr in Lungau, was named Franz Mohr and had been a soldier in the service of Archbishop Colloredo in the Archbishopric of Salzburg. He deserted in the year that Joseph Mohr was born. Children out of wedlock were a \u201ccrime\u201d at this time: Although they were permitted to carry the name of their father, they were stigmatized from birth. And thus, Joseph Wohlmut, Salzburg\u2019s final executioner, who was trying to improve his negative reputation by serving as a godfather to illegitimate children, became Mohr\u2019s godfather. However, he had somebody else substitute for him during Mohr\u2019s baptism.<\/p>\n

A clerical career for a highly talented boy<\/h2>\n

Joseph Mohr grew up with his mother, his grandmother and his stepsister Klara and an additional relative at a house at the cold and dark Steingasse 31. The street was located next to a wet boulder of the Kapuzinerberg mountain and made for a miserable accommodation \u2014 cold, bleak and more than unsuitable for the healthy development of a child.<\/p>\n

It soon became apparent that the boy was very talented and particularly intelligent. The choir vicar Johann Nepomuk Hiernle discovered his talents early on: He made it possible for him to visit the academic gymnasium and supported and taught Mohr, becoming a father figure and role model. At the same time, the boy assisted as a singer and violinist at the university\u2019s choirs and at St. Peter\u2019s Abbey, Salzburg. Between 1808 and 1810, he studied philosophy at Kremsm\u00fcnster Abbey in Upper Austria. After completing school in 1811, he joined the priestly seminary in the city of Salzburg at the age of 19. As a child born out of wedlock, he required special permission from the church to do so. In 1815, the only 23-year-old was ordained as a priest. This, however, also required special permission as he had not yet reached the required age of 25.<\/p>\n

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