Anton Johann Gross-Hoffinger

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Anton Johann Gross-Hoffinger , with the pseudonyms Hans Normann , AJ Gross , Anton Johann Gross , Anton Johann Gross (Hoffinger) and AJ Gross-Hoffinger ; (* May 22, 1808 in Vienna ; † August 26, 1875 in Breslau ) was an Austrian geographer , lexicographer , writer of the Vormärz and publisher , whose numerous works have been published several times.

Life

His parents were the businessman Anton Gross and his wife Anna Maria (née Hoffinger), who moved with him to Budweis in 1816 .

After six years of high school in Budweis, after returning in 1822, he attended the Schottengymnasium for two years , then studied geography and history at the Philosophical Faculty in Vienna and devoted himself to journalism and writing for the first time. At the request of his parents, he waived his degree and served for a year as a cadet in the 8th Line Infantry Regiment Archduke Ludwig in Iglau , from which he was dismissed in 1828 as unfit for the military and for work.

In the same year he tried to climb the Grossglockner , but failed in the last section.

His continued studies began in 1829 in Munich, where Leipzig and casting followed, which he in 1834 with the graduation to the Dr. the philosophy completed.

After the father's death (around 1830), his mother is mentioned as a "commercial freight forwarder widow". From 1832 on, Gross-Hoffinger and Carl Brüggemann published the latest conversation lexicon for all stands from Halberstadt .

Grossglockner expedition

On July 24, 1828, an ascent from Dellach began with his participation in order to reach the summit of the Großglockner . Brandstätter, Dominikus Aslaber and Mathias Royacher are known by three mountain guides during the expedition . His acquaintance with the natural scientist and botanist David Heinrich Hoppe from Regensburg, who lived there for a few weeks in the summer months since 1798, shared a. a. the bryologist Christian Friedrich Hornschuch (1793-1850). From the “Sennhütte am Troog”, with an overnight stay in the “Kuhhütte”, which is managed as an alpine dairy , we went to the Salmshütte on July 26, 1828 . The Salmhütte was destroyed and rebuilt several times after its construction in 1799 since 1809 and existed since the cost sharing u. a. by the Geometer Partsch from two "permanent" designed and 1826 completed structures. They were a few meters apart and consisted of the living room and the main building with the kitchen and two chambers. This expedition is interesting insofar as the burned Glockner book is mentioned and personal names and entries can be reproduced through literature sources. For 1852 Anton von Ruthner (1817–1897) documents the destruction of the hut.

publisher

The magazine DER ADLER, published by him since January 2nd, 1838 . General world and national chronicle, entertainment paper, literary and art newspaper for the Austrian states. Edlen von Gehelen'schen Erben (also publisher of the Wiener Zeitung ), Vienna 1838, after a “test sheet” had previously been published, from 1844 onwards under the new name Vindobana , due to a lack of economic success, the publication on Friday, March 31st May 1844 with the number 131.

Publications

Gross-Hoffinger

  • 1830: Handbook for travelers through the Archduchy of Austria
  • 1830: Travel paperback for Danube drivers (the second edition was published in 1846 under the title: "The Danube from the Origin to the Black Sea")
  • 1832: The Kahlenberg
  • 1833: The Austrian countries and peoples. (Ersther Theil), FW Goedtsche, Leipzig and Löwenberg 1833. ( digitized version )
  • 1832: life and government history
  • 1833: Austria as it is
  • 1834: Book of freedom or spirit of the 19th century by an emigrated Austrian , FW Goedtsche, Leipzig and Meissen 1834. ( digitized version )
  • 1834: Old Austria and the Romans , 1834
  • 1835: The King (novel), 1835
  • 1835: Spirit from Voltaire's writings
  • 1835: Life, work and death of Emperor Franz I.
  • 1835: Life and government history of Joseph the Second and paintings of his time , Fr. Brodhag'sche Buchhandlung, Stuttgart 1835. ( digitized version )
  • 1836: The kingdom of darkness , (poems)
  • 1836: Austria in 1835 in the sign of the times in Germany. LF Rieger and Comp., Stuttgart and Leipzig ( digitized )
  • 1841: The black mandl. Austrian sagas and stories , self-published, Vienna
  • 1846: Galante Vienna. (Moral painting), Johann Friedrich Hartknoch , Leipzig
  • 1846: The Danube from its source to the Black Sea
  • 1846: The partition of Poland
  • 1846: Prince Metternich and the Austrian state system. An expert opinion , Verlag Philipp Reclam , Leipzig
  • 1846: Hungarian portedeullie
  • 1846: Vienna as it is (new edition 1925)
  • 1846: Vienna as it is. Ignaz Jackowitz, Leipzig 1847 (with four clay lithographs by Theodor Hosemann )
  • 1847: The fate of women and prostitution in connection with the principle and the indissolubility of Catholic marriage and especially Austrian legislation and the philosophy of the age , Fest'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Leipzig 1847 (400 pages)
  • 1847: Vienna as it is , J. Komrower, 192 pp.
  • 1848: Chronicle of the year 1848
  • 1854: Cilli, the Tyrolean (novel), online
  • 1854: Orient and Occident (novel)
  • 1866: Monk and Countess (novel), 1866

Hans Normann (pseudonym)

In Leipzig he appeared for the first time under the pseudonym "Hans Normann".

  • 1832: Austria as it is. Two volumes, Leipzig 1832.
  • 1832: Walks by a Viennese poet. The realm of darkness. Zeitklänge dedicated to the poet of the "Walks of a Viennese Poet" . Second edition. , Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1832. (52 pp.)
  • 1834: Memoirs of an emigrated Austrian about the fatherland and his time. Hofbuchdruckerei Altenburg, Altenburg 1834 (232 pages)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ p. 463
  2. ↑ p. 177
  3. ↑ Sennhütte at the trough 1728
  4. ↑ p. 28
  5. ↑ ( THE ADLER ) digitized version
  6. ↑ ( digitized version )
  7. ↑ Oberösterreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815-1950 ( pp. 76 and 77 ), accessed on March 10, 2013

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personal data
SURNAME Gross-Hoffinger, Anton Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Normann, Hans; Large, AJ; Groß, Anton Johann; Groß-Hoffinger, AJ
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian geographer, lexicographer, writer, publisher
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1875
Place of death Wroclaw