Franz Xaver von Linsenmann

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Franz Xaver von Linsenmann (November 28, 1835 – September 21, 1898) was an important Catholic moral theologian and the Bishop of Rottenburg.{{Cite journal |last=Chalmers |first=Stuart Patrick |date=November 2021 |title=Fritz Tillmann, Discipleship and the Renewal of Moral Theology |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00211400211039169 |journal=Irish Theological Quarterly |language=en |volume=86 |issue=4 |pages=352–369 |doi=10.1177/00211400211039169 |issn=0021-1400}}

Born in Rottweil, Linsenmann was unanimously elected Bishop of Rottenburg on July 20, 1898, and was proclaimed on September 5. However, he died before his consecration during a curative stay in the Black Forest spa town of Lauterbach.

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title=Bishop of Rottenburg|

before=Wilhelm von Reiser|

years=1898|

after=Paul Wilhelm Keppler}}

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