Ignaz Anton Demeter [SEP] occupation
Ignaz Anton Demeter
Ignaz Anton Demeter (1 August 1773 – 21 March 1842) was a Roman Catholic priest, talented as a teacher and church musician, who served as the Archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau from 1836 till his death five years later.
Life.
Life Early years.
Ignaz Anton Demeter was born at Augsburg in the summer of 1773. His parents, Johann Nepomuk Demeter and his wife Eleonore were master-bakers. Ignaz Anton was the eldest of approximately twelve children, although five of his siblings
from his childhood, Anton Böhm, stayed and set up a music publishing business in the city, later dedicating a mass that he published to his childhood friend, Ignaz Demeter.
Ignaz Anton Demeter's attended the city school in Augsburg and the Benedictine Salvator Gymnasium (cathedral school). His love of music was complemented by a love of foreign languages, for which he won a school prize. He won the prize after praying for it to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and for the rest of his life he would remember