Christian d'Elvert

Christian D'Elvert, lithograph by Eduard Kaiser , 1861

Christian d'Elvert (born April 11, 1803 in Brno ; † January 23, 1896 ibid) was an Austrian local politician and a regional historian of Moravia .

Live and act

D'Elvert was a liberal politician in what was then Austrian Moravia in the 19th century. His functions were a mandate in the Moravian state parliament and in the German National Assembly in Frankfurt am Main from 1848 to 1849 . From 1850 he was a councilor in the Moravian capital Brno .

In 1861 d'Elvert was elected Mayor of Brno and held the office until 1864. A second term lasted from 1870 to 1876.

Between 1871 and 1882 d'Elvert was a member of the House of Representatives of the Reichsrat in Vienna and in 1873 its senior president .

From today's perspective, his local political activities focused on the areas of urban development ( regulatory plan ), infrastructure and leisure and recreation.

D'Elvert was also active as a journalist, particularly in the fields of Moravian history, Brno town history, genealogy and aristocratic history, as well as the history of theater and music .

An elaborately designed plaque at the foot of Spielberg Castle commemorated his services to the development of the city . The memorial was removed after 1918, but has been in this place again since 2006. As a major exception for the Czech Republic , the memorial plaque in German was again attached and an additional plaque in Czech was added.

His son Heinrich d'Elvert was also a member of the municipal council of Brno, a member of the Moravian Landtag, a member of the Reichsrat and from October 21, 1918 to February 16, 1919 a member of the Provisional National Assembly in Vienna.

Works

• Attempt at a history of Brno . Traßler, Brno 1828 ( e-copy ).
• The learned societies in Moravia and Austrian Silesia , Brno 1853.
• The Academy of Scholars in Olomouc , NOtBlHSS 1859, 68–71.
• Contributions to the history of the royal cities of Moravia, especially the k. State capital Brno .
  • Volume 1, Brno 1860 ( e-copy ).
• On the cultural history of Moravia and East. Silesia , 1st part. Forms the 15th volume of the writings of the hist.-stat. Section of the kk schl. Society for the promotion of agriculture, natural and regional studies. Brno 1866. ( E-copy ).
• Contributions to the history of the rebellion, the Reformation of the Thirty Years War and the reorganization of Moravia in the seventeenth century , Brno 1867.
• Further contributions to the history of the Czech lands in the seventeenth century , Brno 1868
• On the cultural history of Moravia and East. Silesia , part 2. Forms the 18th volume of the writings of the hist.-stat. Section of the kk schl. Society for the promotion of agriculture, natural and regional studies. Brno 1868.
• History of the kk mähr.-schles. Society for the promotion of agriculture, natural and regional studies, taking into account the related cultural conditions in Moravia and Austria. Silesia . Rohrer, Brno 1870 ( e-copy ).
• On the history of the Jews in Moravia and Austria-Silesia: with consideration for Austria-Hungary in general and the neighboring countries . Winiker, Brno 1895.

as editor

• Chronicle of the royal city of Iglau (1402–1607) by the Iglau town clerk Martin Leopold von Löwenthal . Ritsch, Brno 1861 ( e-copy ).

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : d'Elvert, Christian . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 4th part. Typogr.-literar.-artist publishing house. Establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1858, pp. 30–33 ( digitized version ).
• Berthold Bretholz :  D'Elvert, Christian Ritter . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, pp. 653-655.

Web links

Commons : Christian d'Elvert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Christian d'Elvert in the catalog of the German National Library
• Information about d'Elvert at City Info Brno