Lorenz von Westenrieder

Lorenz von Westenrieder ( born August 1, 1748 in Munich, † March 15, 1829 ) was a German theologian, educator, historian and publicist of the Enlightenment. He is renowned for his discovery of the Bavarian history, but also dealt with the Bavaria of the present. In addition, he was a Munich local patriot.

Life and work

Westenrieder was ordained as a Jesuit school in 1771. After the dissolution of the Jesuit order in 1773 he became professor of poetics and rhetoric at the Gymnasium in Landshut and 1774 for rhetoric in Munich. 1776, he was appointed Bücherzensurrat and 1799 he was director of the censorship of books Commission. In 1777 he became a member in 1779 and secretary of the historical class of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, of which he became director in 1808. In this role, he championed the development of lithography and contributed funds for the construction of the first large stone printing press at. Beginning of 1779 he joined the Illuminati, but he left again at the end. 1786, he was appointed spiritual advice and canon of Munich, 1813, he was knighted.

Westenrieder was a supporter of moderate Enlightenment. In addition to its historical and theoretical works, he also wrote novels and plays. Its historical and literary work includes more than a hundred volumes, which often deal with the socio-cultural development of Munich and its inhabitants. Westenrieder is considered one of the most important writers of the Bavarian 18th and early 19th century.

Conception of art

In his opinion, painting can in the great outdoors to get equally good results as ideal landscapes in the studio. This in turn leads to the establishment of private schools painters who called themselves as in Munich Westenrieder school of painting.

Text sample

( about the Rose Island )

" ... Large enough would be the island to bury it any grief, even large enough to hold two hearts, which is now in the sweetest and happiest crush their souls require naught but itself and wish nothing but bushes, her happiness in the sight of to hide envy. "

Works ( in chronological order )

  • Significant terms of practical Christianity. (1774, anonymous)
  • Speech of the reasons why the fruits of the school improvements are not suddenly visible and universal. (1774 )
  • The Zween candidates. (1774, comedy )
  • Marc Aurel. (1776 )
  • Introduction to the fine arts. (1777 )
  • Letters of Bavarian mentality and customs. ( 1778)
  • Speech in memory of Peter from Osterwald Sr. Churfürstl. By luminous in Bavaria, privy council, first director of the Churfürstl. spiritual Raths, then academic director of the philosophical class. ( 1778)
  • Baierische contributions in writing, to the beautiful and useful literature. (1779-1781)
  • Speeches and essays. (1780 )
  • In memory of Andreas Felix von Oefele. (1780 )
  • Speech in memory of churfl. Geistl. Rath's secretary Anton Johann Lipowsky, etc. (1781 )
  • Life of the good youth Engelhof. (1781, novel)
  • The dream in Dreyen nights. ( 1782 )
  • From the decay of secular priests. ( 1782 )
  • From the Bavarians in Holland. ( 1782 )
  • Description of capital and residence town Munich. ( 1782 )
  • Yearbook of Human History in Bavaria. ( 1782 )
  • Description of capital and residence town Munich in the present state. (1783 ) ( digitized )
  • That it not reasonable sey, reduce our preacher in a way, as happened in paragraphs publicly. (1783 )
  • From the fall of the Loden and cloth trade in Bavaria, and of the means aufzuhelfen him again. (1783, writer probably Westenrieder )
  • Life of Johann Franz Seraph noble of charcoal burners, Electoral. reall. Hofkammer - Mauth & Commercienraths in Bavaria. (1783 )
  • Description of the worm or the Starnberger See lake and the lying about castles [e ] tc. together with a map. (1784 )
  • Geography of baierisch -Palatinate States. (1784 )
  • The history of Baierischen Academy of Sciences. (1784/1807)
  • History of Bavaria for the youth and the people. ( 1785 )
  • Contributions to the patriotic history, geography, statistics and agriculture. ( 1785-1817 )
  • Bavarian historical calendar. (1786-1818)
  • Of the Nomalisten. (1786 )
  • History of Bavaria. (1786 )
  • As to the question: What were the basic causes of the many, donated in Bavaria from the 11th to the 15 th century Abteyen? And was really satisfied by the same sovereign intentions? has the most positive birth hard Sr. Churfl. Highness Carl Theodor in a public academic meeting on the Churfl. Library Saale read Lorenz Westenrieder. (1787 )
  • Letters of Bavaria. (1787 )
  • Emperor Louis the Bavarian. (1792 )
  • Staatistische description of Churfürstl. District Court Dachau. (1792 )
  • Reflections on Ludwig of Brandenburg. (1793)
  • Summary of baierischen history. (1798 )
  • Outline of German history. (1798 )
  • Academic discourse on the Book of Law Rupert of Freysing. (1802 )
  • Story of my back of pain called Taismus. (1802 )
  • Thinking Ildephons speech at Kennedy. (1804 )
  • Thinking speech at Carl Albert of Vacchiery, royal. reall. privy council and Hofgerichtskanzler. (1808 )
  • The Würm or Starenbergersee and the surrounding area. (1811 )
  • Letters from and about Gastein. (1817 )
  • Theses centum, circa materias gravissimas. (1817 )
  • About the restoration of the Jesuit Order. (1818 )
  • Handbook of baierischen history. (1820 )
  • Hundreds of memories. (1821 )
  • Hundreds of singularities, or the new Munich in 1850. (1824 )
  • The new Munich and Bavaria in 1850. (1828 )
  • Collected works. (1831-1838, 29 volumes)
  • From the manuscript legacy L. v. West Rieder. (1882, 2 vols, ed Kluckhohn )
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