Carl Joseph Bronzetti

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Carl Joseph Bronzetti

Carl Joseph Bronzetti (born June 27, 1788 in Roverè della Luna , German Eichholz , as Carlo Giuseppe Bronzetti , † May 13, 1854 in Landau in the Palatinate ) was an Austrian and Bavarian soldier and writer.

Origin and youth

Carl Joseph Bronzetti was born as Carlo Giuseppe Bronzetti on June 27, 1788 as the ninth of ten children in the then Austrian Roverè della Luna - in German Eichholz.

He was orphaned at the age of 13. His parents, Andrea Bronzetti (* December 17, 1744 in Giovo , † January 12, 1801 in Roveré) and Teresa Pellegrini (* 1748 in Giovo, † August 6, 1801 in Roveré), had died of malaria. His father, a well-paid timber merchant, had bought a stately home in Roverè in 1784, where his three youngest children were born, now known as "Casa Bronzetti".

After the death of the parents, the brother Giovanni (born February 6, 1777 in Giovo) took over the guardianship of Carl Joseph. He sent him, together with his brother Domenico, to various schools. a. to the boarding school in Polling (near Weilheim, Upper Bavaria ), where he could not stay because of the secularization of the monastery in 1803. He then completed his school education in Brixen.

Two sons of his brother Domenico Bronzetti fell as fighters for the independence of Italy under Giuseppe Garibaldi : Narciso Bronzetti (born June 5, 1821 in Cavalese , † June 17, 1859 in Brescia after the Battle of Treponti ) and Pilade Bronzetti (born November 23, 1832 in Mantua ; fallen on October 1, 1860 in Castel Morrone ).

Numerous streets and squares as well as some schools in Italy are named after the "Fratelli Bronzetti" and even a street in the former capital of the Philippines, Quezon City.

Soldier and writer

At the age of 17, Bronzetti volunteered for the military and became an Austrian soldier in the Neugebaur Infantry Regiment No. 9. During his first war deployment against the French, he was injured on October 20, 1805 in the battle of Verona and returned to his after a stay in the hospital Home town back.

During Bronzetti's inaction, forced by the injury, Napoleon defeated the Austrians on December 2, 1805 at Austerlitz and, in the Peace of Pressburg on December 26, 1805, forced them to cede the area up to Lake Garda to Bavaria. Bronzetti then applied for his discharge from Austrian military service, which was not granted to him until October 31, 1806.

On April 1, 1807 Bronzetti became a Bavarian soldier, his entry into the Bavarian army took place in Innsbruck as a Junker in the royal. 9th Infantry Regiment Ysenburg. His regiment was based in Bamberg, where it moved to at the end of April 1807. Bronzetti was stationed there until he was transferred to Landau in the Palatinate in 1830. His promotion documents from this time (subordinate on July 17, 1807, first lieutenant on May 30, 1811, 2nd class captain on August 10, 1813, 1st class captain on October 9, 1825) are signed by King Maximilian I Joseph.

In July 1807 his regiment moved north from Bamberg, against the Swedes. After the siege and surrender of Greifswald and Stralsund, the regiment arrived on the island of Rügen on September 8, 1807. On July 27, 1809, he took part in the battle at the half-hour bridge near Tatzenbach during the Tyrolean uprising .

Bronzetti took part in Napoleon's Russian campaign with the Bavarian army . In the Battle of Polotsk he suffered a leg injury on August 18, 1812, which forced him to return home after a stay in a hospital. It was not until December 10, 1812, that he was able to begin the return march, which led him via Darkehmen, Angerburg, Rastenburg, Sensburg, Plock, Posen, Glogau, Hoyerswerda, Meissen, Hof and Bayreuth. On January 13, 1813, he arrived in Bamberg.

After Bavaria had switched sides with the Treaty of Ried of October 8, 1813, Bronzetti fought the French in the Battle of Hanau at the end of October 1813 . At the end of March 1814, the Allied troops marched into Paris, and Bronzetti was also there. After Napoleon's reign of the Hundred Days in 1815 and his defeat at Waterloo, Bronzetti marched again through Paris and stayed in the department sur le Lyonne until October 1816. Not until December 22, 1816 did he return to Bamberg.

From November 1832 Bronzetti took part in the Greek expedition of the Bavarian Army under King Otto .

After returning from Greece in May 1835, Bronzetti was again stationed in Landau in the Palatinate, where he applied for his retirement due to the lack of promotion , which he was granted on September 28, 1840, with promotion to major .

Book: Memory of Greece from the years 1832–1835 by Carl Joseph Bronzetti

After his retirement he wrote about his time in Greece the memory of Greece from the years 1832-1835 .

As early as 1843 Bronzetti applied to be reinstated into active service, which was only granted to him on October 18, 1844, as a major in Landau. Both his dismissal and his reinstatement bear the signature of King Ludwig I . Several applications by Bronzetti to be reassigned to the line regiment were denied. On March 31, 1848 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and on June 30, 1851 to colonel. Both documents are signed by King Maximilian II .

Bronzetti died of a stroke on May 13, 1854 in Landau in the Palatinate . He was in active service until his death at the age of almost 66

Bronzetti as an artist

Bronzetti was also active as a painter. He started drawing in 1816 and was already making lithographs a year later. The librarian, Heinrich Joachim Jaeck , mentions six works by Bronzetti.

awards and medals

King Otto of Greece awarded Bronzetti the silver knight's cross of the Royal Order of Savior. The original in Greek is dated 10/22. June 1836.

King Maximilian II awarded Bronzetti the Commthur Cross of the Royal Order of Merit of St. Michael on August 12, 1849 and the King's Cross of Honor on April 30, 1852. Bavarian Order of Ludwig.

Ludwig III, Grand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine pp, awarded Bronzetti the Commthur Cross, 2nd class on July 17, 1852.

Friedrich, Prince and Regent of Baden, Duke of Zähringen, awarded Bronzetti the Knight's Cross of the Zähringer Lion on September 27, 1852.

In an accompanying letter, Prince Friedrich thanked him for the diary about the fate of the Landau Fortress in 1849. This diary was only published in 1905 in ten editions of the Landau Anchor. Bronzetti received a disapproval for sending the diary to Prince Friedrich von Baden.

Marriage and offspring

On May 26, 1813, Bronzetti married Helene Ott (1790–1855), daughter of a hospital administrator.

On September 17, 1812, their daughter Maria Barbara, called Babett, was born in Bamberg, while Bronzetti was waiting to march back from Poland after his injury. Babett married Baron Ernst von Lerchenfeld on December 28, 1841 in Munich . She died on March 3, 1899 in Munich. Carl Joseph's son Heinrich Bronzetti was born on July 10, 1815 in Bamberg. From 1870 to 1874 he was in command of the 3rd Bavarian Field Artillery Regiment .

Aftermath

In 2000, the Roveré della Luna community set up a museum in the Casa Bronzetti, the house where Carl Joseph was born, with documents about him and the "Fratelli Bronzetti", the sons of his two-year-old brother Domenico (born February 24, 1786 in Roveré ; † March 8, 1876 in Genoa).

On June 27, 2014, the 226th birthday of Carl Joseph Bronzetti, the Roveré della Luna community had a plaque put up on the house where he was born. His great-great-great-grandson Heinrich Jaeger from Munich carried out the unveiling of the tablet.

Since 2011 there has been a regular exchange between Roveré della Luna, his hometown, and Bamberg, his first garrison town in Bavaria. Further meetings took place in 2014 and 2016. For the World Heritage Run on April 30, 2017, a group of 30 people from Roverè della Luna visited Bamberg and were received by the Lord Mayor. The descendants of Carl Joseph Bronzetti have also joined this group.

literature

  • Carl Joseph Bronzetti: Memory of Greece from the years 1832–1835. In Commission of the Stahel'schen Buchhandlung, Würzburg 1842
  • Alessandro Marra: Pilade Bronzetti: un bersagliere per l'unità d'Italia: da Mantova a Morrone. Milan 1999
  • Pietro Pedrotti: I Fratelli Bronzetti (Con nota bibliografiche). Trent 1934
  • Elisabetta Realdon: Una famiglia trentina fra Italia ed Europa nel XIX secolo: i Bronzetti di Roveré della luna. Volume 1, Anno Accademico 1995–96, Università degli studi di Trento, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Corso di Laurea in Lettere Moderne, Trento 1996
  • Antionio Scaglia: A borderland as homeland: the bronzetti made of oak. Trento 2003

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alessandro Marra 1999, “febri putrida” page 19, footnotes 21 and 23 with the death entries.
  2. ↑ Casa F.lli Bronzetti .
  3. ↑ Elisabetta Realdon 1996, page 24, footnote 65.
  4. ↑ Unfinished life story, copy in Trento, Fondazione Museo Storico del Trentino, archive “E”, box 12, fasc. 5, p. 14 of the copy, original in family ownership.
  5. ↑ Via / Piazza Fratelli Bronzetti in Ala (Serravale), Bergamo, Bozen, Bondone, Brescia, Busto Arsizio, Castel Morrone, Castenedolo, Cavalese, Como, Corato, Firenze, Gallarate, Genua, Ghedi, Lecco, Limbiate, Magenta, Mantova, Milan, Mezzocorona, Nago Torbole, Noto, Padua, Palermo, Pisa, Rezzato, Rho, Rovereto, Roveré della Luna, San Nicola la Strada, Scicli, Trento, Verona, Vigevano.
  6. ↑ Assentliste of 16 September 1805 war Wien, cardboard 10,444th
  7. ↑ Unfinished life report, pp. 17/18 of the copy
  8. ↑ certificate of release of 26 November 1806, family owned, Bavarian War Archive, Archive number OP 76246, HR sheet, copy the museum in the Casa Bronzetti
  9. ^ Bavarian War Archives, archive number OP 76246
  10. ^ All documents in family ownership, Bavarian War Archives, archive number OP 76246 as well as copies in the museum in the Casa Bronzetti
  11. ↑ Unfinished Life Report, pp. 19 to 23 of the copy
  12. ↑ Unfinished Life Report, p. 22 of the copy
  13. ↑ https://archive.today/20131015204609/http://www.wehrgeschichte-salzburg.at/1809Mitterer/redolf.htm
  14. ↑ a b Letter to Brother Domenico of November 26, 1820, p. 4, original in Trento, Fondazione Museo storico del Trentino, archive “E”, box 19, fasc. 1 sheet 54.
  15. ^ Bavarian War Archives, archive number OP 76246, Personalblatt
  16. ^ Marsch Route, original in family ownership, copy in the museum in the Casa Bronzetti.
  17. ^ Letter to brother Domenico of November 26, 1820, p. 5/6, original in Trento, Fondazione Museo storico del Trentino, archive "E", box 19, fasc. 1 p. 54.
  18. ↑ Alessandro Marra: Pilade Bronzetti , 1999, p. 26
  19. ↑ Annamarie Felsch-Klotz: Early journeys in Phokis and Lokris , Universitätsverlag Göttingen 2009, p. 100.
  20. ↑ Memory of Greece from the years 1832 - 1835 , Würzburg in Commission der Stahel'schen Buchhandlung 1842 ( digitized in the Google book search)
  21. ↑ Reprint in German with translation into Italian in Antonio Scaglia “A borderland as homeland: The Bronzetti from Eichholz”, Trient 2003
  22. ↑ Elisabetta Realdon 1996, page 41, footnote 26, Bavarian War Archives.
  23. ↑ All documents in family ownership, copies in the museum in the Casa Bronzetti.
  24. ^ Pfälzer Kurier, May 16, 1854.
  25. ^ Bavarian War Archives, archive number OP 76246
  26. ^ Jäck, Joachim Heinrich: Life and works of the artists Bamberg ( digitized ).
  27. ↑ June 10, 1836 in the Gregorian calendar corresponds to June 22, 1836 in the Julian calendar.
  28. ↑ All documents in family ownership and copies in the museum in the Casa Bronzetti
  29. ↑ Landauer Anzeiger from July 26 to September 2, 1905
  30. ↑ Death note. Franconia Würzburg
  31. ^ Report on the Bamberg Art Association . Bamberg, 1843, page 51 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  32. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated February 24, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Family grave, Alter Südfriedhof Munich @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.alter-suedfriedhof-muenchen.online
  33. ^ Announcement in " l'Adige " of May 8, 2014 "avvocato Heinrich Bronzetti".
  34. ↑ Town Hall Journal of the City of Bamberg from July 29, 2011 and September 2, 2011, each p. 1
  35. ↑ http://www.giornaletrentino.it/cronaca/trento/grazie-a-carl-josef-riaffiorano-i-legami-con-bamberga-1.1022051 .
  36. ^ Roverè della Luna festeggia la dinastia dei fratelli Bronzetti , l'Adige.it, November 1, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Bronzetti, Carl Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bronzetti, Carlo Giuseppe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian and Bavarian soldier, artist, cross-border commuter and staunch European
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH Roverè della Luna , oak wood
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1854
Place of death Landau in the Palatinate