 After completing his classical studies at Neustadt an der Weinstraße, and at Edesheim, he was received into the then imperial lycée of Mainz in 1813, and studied theology in the diocesan seminary of the same city, under Prof. Bruno Franz Leopold Liebermann, from 1815.He was ordained priest, 22 August 1818.For a short time he became assistant in the parish of Hambach an der Weinstraße.