Daniel Fenner von Fenneberg

Daniel Ferdinand Fenner of Fenneberg (* 1820 in Trento / Tirol, † February 15, 1863 in Bregenz) was one of the leaders of the uprising in the Palatinate in 1849 and writer.

Life

Fenner of Fenneberg was the son of the Austrian Field Marshal Lieutenant Franz Philipp of Fenneberg Fenner (1762-1824) and appeared in 1837 as a cadet in the Army. But as early as 1843, he left again and later published a critical font Austria and his army (1847 ), in which he attacked the Austrian army organization.

After he left Austria for a short time, he returned in 1848 returned to Vienna and was during the uprising in October 1848 Vienna aide at Wenzel Messenhauser, the commander of the rebel National Guard.

As a 1849 uprising in the Palatinate began, he turned there and was appointed briefly as commander and chief of the General Staff of the Palatine people's army. The unsuccessful attempt to surprise the fortress of Landau, cost him his post.

On August 4, 1849 his title of nobility was stripped by an Austrian court for treason, so his official name only was Daniel Fenner. After the uprising in the Palatinate and Baden had been suppressed, Fenner turned from Fenneberg in Switzerland. However, he was expelled from Zurich and then went to America, where he worked in New York City's German -language weekly published Atlantis since 1851.

His experiences during the revolutionary period he described in the books of history of the Vienna days of October ( Tl 1 Leipzig, 1849) and History of the Rhine Palatinate Revolution and the Baden uprising ( Zurich 1850).

1858 Fenner of Fenneberg was insane. He returned to Europe and died on 15 February 1863 in Bregenz.

Works

• Austria and his army, Leipzig 1847 online at Austrian Literature Online - ALO
• History of Vienna October days. Described and documented with all acts pieces, 2 volumes, Leipzig 1849 Volume 1 online in the Google Book Search; Volume 2 online in the Google Book Search
• History of the Rhine Palatinate Revolution and the Baden uprising, Zurich 1849 online in the Google Book Search
• Galgenlieder, Halenza, 1848
• George Sand: The Miller of Angibault, Stuttgart 1845; Translation of the novel and epilogue by Fenner of Fenneberg
• Vittorio Alfieri: from tyranny, publisher of Heinrich Hoff, Mannheim 1845; Translation and foreword by Fenner of Fenneberg online in the Google Book Search