Carl von Hügel

Carl von Hügel (1796–1870)

Memorial in the Hügelpark in Unter-St.-Veit , 13th district of Vienna, erected in 1901

Carl Alexander Anselm Freiherr von Hügel , also Karl (born April 25, 1795 in Regensburg ; † June 2, 1870 in Brussels ) was an Austrian diplomat , traveler , natural scientist and hortologist . He was the son of Johann Aloys Josef von Hügel .

Life

Carl von Hügel joined the Imperial Austrian Army in 1811. He took part in the Napoleonic Wars and in the military intervention in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in 1820/1821. In 1824, at the age of 28, he retired as a major and was apparently able to continue his life with inherited assets.

As a traveler and researcher, Carl von Hügel occupied himself from 1830 to 1836 on a six-year journey in Asia and Oceania with the creation of a plant collection as well as with the collection of objects of religious historical and ethnographical importance. On his travels, he came to the Himalayas , Kashmir and Australia .

After serving as an officer, Hügel bought a very large piece of land on the outskirts of what was then the Vienna suburb of Hietzing (today 13th district , Auhofstrasse 13 and 15) and built Villa Hügel around 1840 (demolished in 1912) . However, he only lived in the villa until 1848 and sold the property a little later. The villa was surrounded by an extensive park, which was largely parceled out before 1900 and (with the exception of the hill park ) built into a residential area.

In 1848, Hügel went to London with Metternich , who as Austria's hated top politician fled to England after the beginning of the March Revolution . From 1849 to 1859, appointed by the young Emperor Franz Joseph I , he was Austrian envoy in the Duchy of Tuscany , which was then ruled by a Habsburg branch, and from 1859 in Brussels . In 1858, Hügel was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Carl von Huegel's ethnographic collection has been an important part of the Museum of Ethnology in Vienna since 1928 . He is the founder of the Austrian Horticultural Society (ÖGG). He was a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .

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  The hilly

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  Alyogyne huegelii

Honors

In 1894 a hill lane in the 13th district, right next to his former villa, was named in his honor. When it was renamed Braunschweiggasse in 1902 after later residents of the villa, today's Hügelgasse in the Unter-St.-Veit district to the west of Alt-Hietzing was named after Carl von Hügel in 1903 . In this part of the district, but not on Hügelgasse, there is also the Hügelpark, which was laid out on a small part of the former area of ​​the baron, with its monument erected there in 1901 by garden friends.

The names Hügelie for the blue umbel ( Trachymene coerulea ), which formerly also belonged to the genus Huegelia Rchb, are reminiscent of Hügel's plants collected while traveling . and also Hill's silk-hibiscus ( Alyogyne huegelii ). Also the genus Hugelroea Steud. from the legume family (Fabaceae) is named after him.

Works

• Cashmere and the Empire of the Siek . Hallberger, Stuttgart 1840-1848. 4 volumes. Digitized
• The Kabul Basin and the mountains between the Hindu-Kosh and the Sutlej . Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1851–1852. 2nd volumes.
• The Pacific Ocean and the Spanish possessions in the East Indian Archipelago . Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1860. 1 volume.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : BLKÖ: Huegel, Karl Alexander Freiherr . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 9th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1863, pp. 402–404 ( digitized version ).
• Heinrich Wilhelm Reichardt :  Hill, Karl Alexander Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, p. 308.
• Hill Carl Alexander Frh. Von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 3.
• Helmut Dolezal:  Hill, Karl Alexander. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 731 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Wilhelm Donko: Austria-Philippines 1521–1898. Austrian-Filipino points of reference, relationships and encounters during the period of Spanish rule. Verlag epubli.de, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-384420853-5 , pp. 91-108.
• Claudia Schweizer: The collections of Carl Alexander Freiherrn von Hügel from his journey through Asia and Oceania in the years 1830–1836 and their change in values ​​through sale. from his correspondence with Kaspar Maria Graf Sternberg (1761–1838). In: Ingrid Kästner et al. (Ed.): Exploring, collecting, noting and communicating - science in the luggage of traders, diplomats and missionaries. Shaker Verlag, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8440-2725-9 , pp. 395-406.
• Christa Riedl-Dorn: The House of Miracles. On the history of the Natural History Museum in Vienna, Holzhausen, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-900518-91-2 , pp. 94–96

Individual evidence

1. ^ Huegel, Karl Alexander Freiherr von bei Deutsche Biographie.
2. ^ Anatole von Hügel (ed.): Charles von Hügel, April 25, 1795 - June 2, 1870. 1903.
3. ^ Villa Hügel in Hietzing , accessed on March 26, 2009.
4. ↑ March 2002 - planten.de .
5. ↑ ^{a b} Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymic plant names - extended edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 , doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .
6. ^ Entry on Carl von Hügel in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )

Web links

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predecessor	Office	successor
	kk Austrian envoy in Florence 1850–1859
Maximilian Joseph Vrints von Treuenfeld	kk Austrian envoy in Brussels 1860–1867	Friedrich von Pilat