Anton Joseph Dorsch

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Anton Joseph Friedrich Caspar Dorsch , also Anton Josef Dorsch (born June 11, 1758 in Heppenheim , † May 1819 in Paris ) was a German theologian, university professor, enlightener and revolutionary.

Life

Dorsch studied philosophy and theology from 1776 to 1780 and received his doctorate in theology in 1784. He received the chair for philosophy at the University of Mainz . Since the beginning of the French Revolution, he was particularly concerned with the Enlightenment and Kant in particular.

In 1791 he went to Strasbourg, where he was vicar to Louis René Édouard de Rohan-Guéméné , and in November 1792 he returned to the now French-occupied Mainz (→ Mainz Republic ). There he was the President of the “General Administration”. He got involved in establishing Jacobin clubs in Mainz , Worms and Speyer.

Before the threat to Mainz from German troops during the siege of Mainz (1793) , he fled on March 30th together with Georg Christian Wedekind , but was arrested in Oppenheim and had to return to Mainz, which he could only leave after the surrender.

In France he worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in 1794 became president of the provisional central administration for the countries between the Meuse and the Rhine with its seat in Aachen and later became sub-prefect of the arrondissement of Kleve . Due to the Wars of Liberation , he fled to Paris again in 1813.

plant

  • Quelques réflexions sur l'établissement de la République cis-rhénane. Par le citoyen Dorsch, employé aux relations extérieures. (Paris, Imprimerie CF Cramer, to VI de la République française 15 pp. 8 °).
Memorandum by Anton Joseph Dorsch for the annexation of the left bank of the Rhine by the French Republic, against the establishment of a special Cisrhenan Republic . Contrasted with the statements of Georg Friedrich Rebmann on this subject. (1797 October c. 10), Paris.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joseph Marie Quérard : La France littéraire, ou Dictionnaire des savants bibliographique, historiens, et gens de lettres de la France, & c. , Volume 2 of 14 ( Google Books )
  2. ↑ Jules Mathorez : Les étrangers en France sous l'Ancien Régime. Volume 2, les Allemands, les Hollandais, les Scandinaves, Paris, E. Champion, 1921, p. 48
  3. ^ Eberhard Laux , Karl Teppe: The modern state and its administration: Contributions to the history of development since 1700 , Stuttgart 1998, p. 67 ff ( Google Books )
personal data
SURNAME Dorsch, Anton Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dorsch, Anton Joseph Friedrich Caspar (full name); Dorsch, Anton Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian, university professor, enlightener and revolutionary
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1758
PLACE OF BIRTH Heppenheim
DATE OF DEATH May 1819
Place of death Paris