Joseph Hormayr, Baron zu Hortenburg
Joseph Hormayr, Baron zu Hortenburg (German: Joseph Hormayr Freiherr zu Hortenburg, also known as Joseph Freiherr von Hormayr zu Hortenburg) (20 January 1781 or 1782 – 5 October 1848) was an Austrian and German statesman and historian.
Biography
Hormayr was born at
During the insurrection of 1809, by which the Tirolese sought to throw off the
In 1816, some amends were made to him by his appointment as imperial historiographer; but so little was he satisfied with the general policy and conduct of the Austrian court that in 1828 he accepted an invitation of King Louis I to the Bavarian capital, where he became ministerial councilor in the department of foreign affairs.[1]
In 1832 he was appointed Bavarian minister-resident at
He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1820.[2]
He died in October 1848 of unknown causes, aged 66 or 67. [where?]
Posthumous assessment
Hormayr's literary activity was closely conditioned by the circumstances of his political career and by the fact that Johannes von Müller (died 1811) was his teacher: while his access to original documents gave value to his treatment of the past, his record or criticism of contemporary events received authority and interest from his personal experience. But his history of the Tirolese rebellion is far from being impartial; for he always liked to put himself into the first place, and the merits of Andreas Hofer and of other leaders are not sufficiently acknowledged. In his later writings he appears as a keen opponent of the policy of the court of Vienna.[1]
Works
The following are among Hormayr's more important works:
- Geschichte des Grafen von Andechs (1796)
- Lexikon für Reisenden in Tirol (1796)
- Kritisch-diplomatische Beiträge zur Geschichte Tirols im Mittelalter (2 vols., Innsbruck, 1802–1803, new ed., 1805)
- Geschichte der gefürsteten Grafschaft Tirol (2 vols., Tübingen, 1806–1808);
- Österreichischer Plutarch, 20 vols., collection of portraits and biographies of the most celebrated administrators, commanders and statesmen of Austria (Vienna. 1807)
- an edition of Beauchamp's Histoire de la guerre en Vendée (1809)
- Geschichte Hofers (1817, 2nd ed., 2 vols. 1845) and other pamphlets
- Archiv für Gesch., Stat., Lit. und Kunst (20 vols., 1809–1828)
- Allgemeine Geschichte der neuesten Zeit vom Tod Friedrichs des Grossen bis zum zweiten Pariser Frieden (3 vols., Vienna, 1814–1819, 2nd ed., 1891)
- Wien, seine Gesch. und Denkwürdigkeiten (5 vols., Vienna, 1823–1824)
- Fragmente über Deutschland, in Sondertheil Bayerns Welthandel, Lebensbilder aus dem Befreiungskriege (3 vols., Jena, 1841–1844, 2nd ed., 1845)
- Die goldene Chronik von Hohenschwangau (Munich, 1842)
- Anemonen aus dem Tagebuch eines alten Pilgersmanns (4 vols., Jena 1845–1847)[1]
Together with Mednyanski (1784–1844) he founded the Taschenbuch für die vaterländ. Gesch. (Vienna, 1811–1848).[1]
Notes
Regarding personal names: Freiherr is a former title (translated as Baron). In Germany since 1919, it forms part of family names. The feminine forms are Freifrau and Freiin.
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Hashagen 1911.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
- public domain: Hashagen, Justus (1911). "Hormayr, Joseph, Baron von". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). p. 693. This work in turn cites:
- T. H. Merdau, Biographische Züge aus dem Leben deutscher Männer (Leipzig, 1815)
- Gräffer, Österreichische National-Encyclopädie, ii. (1835)
- Taschenbuch für vaterländische Geschichte (1836 and 1847)
- Neuer Nekrolog der Deutschen (1848)
- Blätter für literarische Unterhaltung (1849)
- Wurzbach, Österreichisches biographisches Lexikon, ix. (1863)
- K. Th. von Heigel in the Allgemeine deutsche Biographie (1881)
- F. X. Wegele, Geschichte der deutschen Historiographie (Munich and Leipzig, 1885)
- F. v. Krones, Aus Österreichs stillen und bewegten Jahren 1810–1815, Biographie und Briefe an Erzhz. Johann (Innsbruck, 1892)
- Hirn, Tiroler Aufstand (1909)
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