Hermann von Liebenau

Hermann von Liebenau ( born October 3, 1807, at Knutwiler bath; † July 28, 1874 in Lucerne ) was a Swiss historian, writer and physician.

Life

He was a son of Baron Joseph von Laßberg and the widowed Princess Elisabeth zu Fürstenberg. After the birth, he was the physician Philipp Lüthard passed in Reiden as foster son. After studies at German and Austrian universities, he obtained in 1836 at the University of Bern, the promotion of a MD He was literary works to historical material, especially the Old Confederacy. After two longer stays in the castle Eppishausen with his father in 1837 he had come to Lucerne. From 1855 to 1860 he worked as a senior physician in the Roman military service. After a few days writings on history, of which particularly: the April passage of free lattices listed in the 1845 Lucerne tions, the very title of the political opinion of the author sets out determined to Liebenau turned to medieval history. First appeared in 1846 in Lucerne: attempt at a documentary presentation of the rich free pin Engelberg St. Benedicten Order in Switzerland, XII. and XIII. Century. He wrote Contributions to edited by Joseph Eutych Kopp history leaves and was known in the Notices of the Zurich antiquarian society: The angle Riede of Stans, except for Arnold Winkelried, the hero of Sempach.

He also wrote articles in the Gazette for Austrian history, similar to Swiss historical note sheets, and more. He wrote first in two New Year's leaves from the Urschweiz Essays on the history of the Confederation: The causes of the formation of the Confederation and the promotion of Confederation by the House of Habsburg internal relations and led in 1864 this in the book The Tell legend to the year 1230 in detail from. On Winkelried he came in 1862 in the Scripture, Arnold Winkelried, his time and, indeed, a historical picture according to the latest research in depth back.

He devoted his last years, assisted by his son Theodore of Liebenau, the research on the life story of Queen Agnes of Hungary, the last Habsburg of the illustrious parent company in Aargau, and about the history of the St. Gotthard Pass records and calendar entries on the history of the St. Gotthard Pass. Hermann von Liebenau was active sporadically as a writer of fiction in magazines. He was married to Jakobea Pfyffer of Altishofen.

As a doctor, he supervised at the castle Meersburg his father whose sister, the poet Annette von Droste- Hulshoff until her death on 24 May 1848.

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