Discover commissioner (person who orders works), priest, prince-elector Johann Philipp von Schönborn (Elector)

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Johann Philipp von Schönborn (Elector)

male / German

commissioner (person who orders works), priest, prince-elector

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: At his death he was eulogized as 'Deutscher Salomo, Vater des Vaterlandes and Friedensfürst' (Prince of peace)

Qualifications: commissioner (person who orders works), priest, prince-elector

Nationality/school: German

Born: Eschbach 1605-08-06
Burg Eschbach

Deceased: Würzburg 1673-02-12

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Weilburg (Hessen)
Orléans (Loiret)
Siena (plaats)
Würzburg 1621 - 1631
After his education in Weilburg, Mainz (Jesuieten Kolleg), Orléans and Siena, he became cannon at the Cathedral in Würzburg. In 1631 he fled for the Swedes to Cologne, only to return to Wurzburg in 1642.
Keulen (stad) 1631 - 1642
Würzburg 1642 - 1673-02-13
On 8 September 1642 he became Prince-Bishop of Würzburg and on 8 September 1645 Auxiliary Bishop of Mainz. He became the negotiator for Würzburg in the peace talks to end the Thirty Year's War. As reward for his pragmatism in the negotiations during the Peace of Westphalia/Münster, he was created Arch-Bishop of Mainz, and therefore at the same time Elector of Mainz, in 1647. In 1663 he also became bishop of Worms.
Mainz