Nikolaus Dumba
Nikolaus Dumba ( Νικόλαος Δούμπας, born July 24, 1830 in Vienna, † March 23, 1900 in Budapest ) was a Greek -Austrian industrialist and liberal politician Aromanian descent. He was regarded as an important art patron and collector and promoter of musical life in Vienna.
Biography
Stergios Dumbas emigrated in 1817 from Vlasti, a village in northern Greece to Vienna, where he settled as a trader. His son Nicholas visited the Academic Gymnasium. His humanistic talents were recognized and encouraged in him. The revolutionary period in the years 1847 and 1848 he spent with his brother Michael in the Austrian ambassador Count Prokesch -east of Athens. In 1852 he traveled with the world traveler Alexander Ziegler to Egypt.
Highly educated, he was met by his training and skills a commercial career. From his cousin Theodore (1818-1880), he took over the export-oriented kk priv cotton - spinning mill in Tattendorf (Lower Austria ), the time employed some 180 staff and he developed into a highly profitable enterprise. This financial base allowed him to continue to devote their preferred areas. Dumba was knighted and was considered one of those called by the Kaiser members in the Upper House also politically active.
It was in 1865 that today's Palais Dumba the famous Viennese architects John Romano of rings and August Schwendenwein of the Viennese neo-Renaissance style Lonauberg in order.
His son Konstantin Dumba was a diplomat and was throughout his life a pacifist.
Patron
Less known is his passion for art, Hans Makart, Gustav Klimt and Carl Kundmann he was a friend. Like his brother, he collected and promoted contemporary art. In his capacity as an MP, he promoted the construction of many monuments to composers.
Nikolaus Dumba had contact to Johannes Brahms, Richard Wagner and Johann Strauss. His preference was Franz Schubert. The passion for music he shared with the surgeon Theodor Billroth, with whom he maintained a friendship.
As a patron of music Dumba practiced among other things, the office of Vice- President of the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna. For the Vienna Men's Choral Club, the St. Nicholas Dumba board from 1865 to 1872, wrote Johann Strauss (Son ) the waltz On the Beautiful Blue Danube Waltz as a choir. Nikolaus Dumba left the choir of 50,000 guilders, in order to preserve these " noble, artistic sentient club " before existential worries. He linked so that the request: " From time to time, to be held in remembrance of me a musical performance in a church " and also decreed: "Never should the money be used for a building ." The tradition of the " Dumba fairs " in which most Franz Schubert's German Mass is listed, has survived to this day.
Benefactor in Greece
During a visit to Athens with his wife Anna he founded the University of Athens means for their interiors. The city of Serres, which is located near his father's home village, he founded the orphanage (now Daycare ) and made a significant contribution to the construction of vocational school. Various sources name as the inspiration for this very problem-oriented pins the work of Georgios Averof benefactor, with whom he was a friend and was said to have motivated him to a commitment.
Political functions
Dumba was chairman of the Greek community of St. George and Vice President of the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna. In 1870 he became a member of the Lower Austrian Landtag until 1896, where he was soon elected to the Finance Committee, and later in the school board and the Poor Law Committee and partly also gave the chairman or his deputy. In 1885 he was appointed by the emperor for life as a member of the manor house, the upper house of the Austrian Imperial Council.
Its designed by Edmund Hellmer grave is located in Vienna's Central Cemetery (Group 32 A, number 25).
Discount
By testamentary donation of 200 Schubert autographs at the City of Vienna Dumba laid the foundation for one of the largest music collections in the world in today's Vienna City Library ( Vienna City Library ). Dumbas collection of Schubertiana today forms the basis of the Schubert collection, which was declared in 2001 for the World Soundtrack Awards.
Honors
- Member (1870 ) and honorary member of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (1880 )
- Honorary Member of the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna (1877 )
- Honorary citizen of Vienna (25 July 1890)
- Commander's Cross of the k Austro- Imperial Order of Leopold
- Order of the Iron Crown, Second Class
- Knight's Cross of the Franz- Joseph- Order
- Imperial Ottoman mecidiye Medal, Second Class
- Grand Commander 's Cross of the k - Greek Savior Order
- Grand Officer of the Imperial Romanian Order of the Crown of Romania
- Commander's Cross, First Class of the Grand Ducal Saxony- Weimar House Order of the White Falcon
- The Dumbastraße runs from the ring to the right of the Imperial Hotel and ends at the Musikverein place. The road was first called Künstlergasse ( first mention in Lehmann 1870, after the 1865-1868 established artists house, one side of which was adjacent to the front street ). In 1900, the traffic area - named after Dumba - on City Council decision of 28 March. The main façade of the Musikverein building was until 2012 the Dumbastraße (since then called the space between artist and house music club music club place).