Franz Isidor Proschko

Francis Isidore Proschko, pseudonym: Franz von Hohenfurth, ( born April 2, 1816 in Hohenfurth, Bohemia, † February 6, 1891 in Vienna) was an Austrian writer and lawyer.

Life

From 1828, he attended high school in České Budějovice and then studied at the University of Prague in civil and criminal law. After he finished his studies at the University of Vienna with a legal dissertation, he took a job as an intern at the police headquarters in Linz. As such, he also married and there was also the end of July 1851 his daughter Hermione Camilla, later also a writer, was born.

Proschko was a police officer and after a stopover in Graz, he was transferred to Vienna in 1867. 1878, the title of a Police Council awarded him, in 1883 he retired. At the age of 75 years Franz Proschko Isidor died on 6 February 1891 in Vienna. His final resting place he found in a grave of honor in Vienna's Central Cemetery (Group 0, number 1, number 37 ) between the composer Josef Mayseder and John Baptist Moser.

In Vienna and Vyšší Brod ( Hohenfurth ) still remember plaques at him.

Works (selection)

Overall Proschko wrote around 75 works - especially the poems, short stories and novels. For his literary work Proschko was honored several times. From Emperor Franz Joseph I. He was awarded the Grand Gold Medal for Art and Science, and Pope Pius IX. awarded him the George Medal.

  • The infernal machine. Historical novel of the French Consular and Imperial period. Prague 1854.
  • The Jesuit. Historical novel from the Zet the 30-year war. Sartorius, Vienna 1857.
  • A Bohemian Student ( 1861)
  • The Last of the Rosenbergs. Historical novel of the 17th century. Vienna 1861.
  • A witch trial. Hard life, Vienna 1866.
  • The needle. Historical novel from French history. Hübner, Leipzig 1858 ( 2 vols )
  • Fireflies. A collection of fables and parables. Manz, Regensburg 1857.
  • The black man (1863 )
  • Germany and Hungary. Günther, Leipzig 1867 ( 3 vols )
  • History and legend from Moravia. Manz, Vienna 1878.
  • Maria Theresa. Manz, Vienna 1876.
  • Erasmus Tattenbach. Historical novel of the 17th century.
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