Andreas von Gunesch
Andreas Friedrich (knight of) Gunesch (born March 6, 1799 in Mediasch , † August 7, 1875 in Neuwaldegg ) was an Austrian Evangelical Lutheran theologian . From 1862 until his death he was superintendent of the Evangelical Superintendent of Vienna .
Life
Andreas Gunesch was born into a family of Transylvanian Saxons and lost his parents at an early age. In 1828 he worked for a short time as the Protestant pastor of Trebesing in Carinthia . He then worked as a vicar and catechist in the Lutheran City Church in Vienna , where he finally worked as a pastor from 1829 until his death. From 1834 he was a member of the church leadership of the Evangelical Church AB , from 1862 as the Viennese superintendent, succeeding Ernst Pauer . He was married to a daughter of the inventor Paul Traugott Meißner . His daughter Adele von Gunesch founded the Gunesch Institute in 1871 , one of the most prestigious boarding schools in Vienna before the First World War .
Andreas von Gunesch is buried in the Matzleinsdorf Evangelical Cemetery (crypt 9) in Vienna.
Awards and honors
- Order of the Red Eagle
- Order of the Iron Crown III. Class (1874), thus elevation to the hereditary Austrian knighthood due to the statutes of the order
- Name of Guneschgasse in the 19th district of Döbling in Vienna (1894)
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Gunesch, Andreas I. . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 6th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1860, p. 34 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Andreas Friedrich Ritter von Gunesch . Website of the Evangelical Museum Austria.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gunesch, Andreas von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gunesch, Andreas Friedrich Ritter von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Evangelical Lutheran superintendent of Vienna |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1799 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mediaș |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 7, 1875 |
| Place of death | Neuwaldegg |