Anton Joseph Binterim (19 September 1779,

Düsseldorf Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in th ...

– 17 May 1855,

Düsseldorf-Bilk Bilk is a quarter (''Stadtteil'') of Düsseldorf. Together with Düsseldorf-Oberbilk, Oberbilk, Düsseldorf-Unterbilk, Unterbilk, Düsseldorf-Hamm, Hamm, Düsseldorf-Flehe, Flehe and Volmerswerth it constitutes Borough 3 (Düsseldorf), Borough 3, ...

) was the parish priest of Bilk from 1805 to 1855 and a prominent leader of

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Prussia Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an em ...

. He lobbied against intermarriage between Catholics and

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1779 births 1855 deaths 19th-century German Roman Catholic priests Clergy from Düsseldorf Members of the Prussian National Assembly {{Germany-reli-bio-stub