Joseph Aschbach

Joseph Aschbach ( born April 29, 1801 in Höchst am Main, † April 25, 1882 in Vienna ) was a German historian. He was a high school teacher in Frankfurt / Main and afterwards professor in Bonn and Vienna. His material rich three-volume history of the University of Vienna is still used today.

Life

Joseph Aschbach began in 1819 at the University of Heidelberg to study theology and philosophy. But influenced by the historian Friedrich Christoph Schlosser he soon turned to the story. Between 1823 and 1842 worked as a professor at the Gymnasium Aschbach in Frankfurt am Main. In the fall of 1842 he accepted an appointment as Professor of History at the University of Bonn and went in 1853 in the same capacity at the University of Vienna. There, he was appointed full professor also the historical seminar. As such, he had to his retirement in 1872. 1856 took the Austrian Academy of Sciences Aschbach on as a member and in 1870 he was elevated by Emperor Franz Joseph I to knighthood. Four days before his 81st birthday Aschbach Joseph died on 25 April 1882 in Vienna.

Research

In his history of the Visigoths (1827 ), he explained to a hitherto dark period of history. This was followed by work on the Umayyads in Spain ( 1829-30 ), the Almoravids and Almohads ( 1833-37 ) and the Heruli and Gepids (1835 ). His story of Emperor Sigismund ( 1838-45 ) was characterized by using a rich material.

He has also written of previously little-used archival sources the Documentary History of the Counts of Wertheim (1843 ), which works to raise awareness of the Frankish nobility in the Middle Ages gave a most important contribution. Edited by his General Church Encyclopedia (1846-1850) treated without confessional polemics the Wissenswürdigste from the entire theology and its auxiliary sciences.

From 1865 onwards, published Aschbach the history of the University of Vienna as a Festschrift for their 500th foundation ceremony. Upon his recovery extensive source material Aschbach underwent numerous errors, whereupon Franz Graf- Stuhlhofer pointed. In terms of volume 1 of the archivist Karl Schrauf tried to apologize oversights by the then time pressure.

Great sensation was caused Aschbachs font Roswitha and Konrad Celtes, in which he sought to prove that the hitherto generally the Roswitha from Gander Home ascribed panegyric on the Emperor Otto the Great not their work, but a poem of Konrad Celtes, ie from the 16th century, was. However, this view was proved by the historian Rudolf Koepke and Georg Waitz as an untenable hypothesis.

Him in Vienna in 1961 Liesing ( 23rd district ) was named in honor of the Aschbachgasse.

Writings

  • Dissertatio De Theopompo Chio historico, Frankfurt 1823 ( digitized )
  • History of the Visigoths, Frankfurt 1827 ( digitized )
  • History of the Umayyads in Spain, 2 vols, Frankfurt from 1829 to 1830, new edition 1860 Vienna
  • History of Spain and Portugal during the reign of the Almoravids and Almohads, 2 volumes, Frankfurt 1833-1837
  • History of the Heruli and Gepids, Frankfurt 1835 ( digitized )
  • History of Emperor Sigismund, 4 volumes, Hamburg 1838-1845
  • Documentary History of the Counts of Wertheim, 2 volumes, Frankfurt 1843
  • General Church Lexicon ( Editorship), 4 volumes, Frankfurt 1946-1850
  • History of the University of Vienna, 3 volumes, Vienna 1865/1877/postum 1888 ( digitized: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, addenda to the third volume ) (eBooks on Demand); Vol 3: The Vienna University and its scholars from 1520 to 1565 as a reprint: Farnborough, Hants, Gregg, 1967 ( Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf )
  • Roswitha and Konrad Celtes ( Proceedings of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna, Philosophical- Historical Classe; 56.1 ). Vienna in 1867; Advanced 2nd Edition: William Braumüller, Vienna 1868.
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