Carl Chorinsky

Carl Graf Chorinský (born October 18, 1838 in Linz , † July 10, 1897 in Mödling ) was an Austrian lawyer and Imperial and Royal Governor of the Crown Land of Salzburg .

biography

Grave of Carl von Chorinský in the Hietzingen cemetery

The son of the former Salzburg district chief Gustav Ignaz von Chorinský and his wife Anna, b. Freiin Böck von Greissau, studied law at the University of Vienna . He began his legal career at the Vienna Regional Court . From June 17, 1880 to October 30, 1890 he was governor of Salzburg. In 1887 he was appointed a member of the Herrenhaus , the upper house of the Austrian Imperial Council.

From 1887 Chorinský was a member of the Imperial Court, from 1890 President of the Higher Regional Court of Vienna . He was involved in the reform of civil procedure law, wrote legal books and was the creator of the Chorinský Collection , a source work on Austrian legal history.

Since 1881 he was an honorary member of the Catholic student association KÖStV Austria Vienna .

Chorinský found his final resting place in the Hietzinger Friedhof in Vienna.

Works

Usury in Austria , 1877
The Salzburg state finances from 1861 to 1878
The Austrian Executive Process: a contribution to the history of the general court system , 1879 MPIER digitized version
Lower Austria's guardianship law from the sixteenth century to the publication of the Josefinic Code of Law , 1878

literature

Chorinský Karl Graf. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 146.

Web links

Entry on Carl Chorinský in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )

Remarks

↑ The "governor" had a different function than that of the 1st and 2nd republic. He was the chairman of the state parliament (or state committee), roughly equivalent to today's state parliament president . State leader was the country's president.

personal data
SURNAME	Chorinský, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Chorinský, Carl Graf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian lawyer and Imperial and Royal Governor of Salzburg
DATE OF BIRTH	October 18, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH	Linz
DATE OF DEATH	July 10, 1897
Place of death	Mödling

[1] The "governor" had a different function than that of the 1st and 2nd republic. He was the chairman of the state parliament (or state committee), roughly equivalent to today's state parliament president . State leader was the country's president.