Johann Christian von Engel

Johann Christian (of ) Angel ( born October 17, 1770 in Leutschau, today Levoča, Slovakia, † March 20 1814 in Vienna ) was an Austrian historian. With his work under the title History of Ukraine and the Cossacks, he wrote one of the first known historical works about Ukraine.

Life

Angel was the son of a Protestant middle-class family from the Spis region Tatra and went to high school in Leutschau and Bratislava. In 1788 he began studying the history of science and classical philology at Göttingen Göttingen, at that time was considered a " pattern - University ". His teachers were, inter alia, Christian Gottlob Heyne, Johann Christoph Gatterer and August Ludwig von Schlozer.

Engels first scientific publication Commentatio de republica militarized seu comparatio Lacedaemoniorum, Cretensium, Cosaccorum from 1790 showed the influences of Heyne and Schlozer and gave him a job in 1791 at the Transylvanian Chancellery in Vienna. During his official career he has held since 1801, the office of imperial Hofbücherzensors and from 1812 of Secretary of the Transylvanian Chancellery; This year he was also knighted.

However, importance was Angel by his work on the history of Hungary and the Carpathian region. On the basis of comprehensive study of sources, he created technical papers in journals, monographs and extensive works. Found his dissertation Commentatio de religione veterum Hungrarorum (1791 ) still little response, so its history of Galicia and Volhynia ( History of Halych and Volodymyr ) despite political tendencies because of its historical research has been widely observed.

As Engels main work is considered the history of the Hungarian Empire and its addition to the countries in which he created a special source-based history of ancient Pannonia and its medieval neighboring countries (Bulgaria, Dalmatia, Croatia, Slavonia, Serbia, Bosnia, Moldova and Wallachia ). As a sequel and complement, the 1812 published history of the Kingdom of Hungary are seen, which dealt with Hungary itself.

Engel died at the age of 44 years in 1814 in Vienna.

Works

  • History of Halych and Volodymyr to 1772, coupled with a discussion of the Austro- Hungarian ownership rights to these kingdoms. According to Russian and Polish yearbooks edited two volumes, Vienna 1792/93
  • Commentation de expeditionibus Trajani ad Danubium et origine Valachorum, Vienna 1795
  • The history of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Cossacks, as well as the kingdoms of Halych - Vladimir, Halle 1796
  • History of the Hungarian kingdom and its subsidiary countries, 1797-1804
  • History of the State Frey Ragusa, Vienna 1807
  • Monumenta ungrica, ( collection of sources on the history of Hungary ), Vienna 1809
  • History of the Kingdom of Hungary, 5 volumes, Vienna 1812/13
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