David von Schönherr

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David von Schönherr, painted in 1902 by Ferdinand Behrens
David von Schönherr, 1897

David von Schönherr (* 1822 in Pflach , Tyrol ; † November 17, 1897 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian archivist and cultural and art historian.

Life

David Schönherr was the son of a customs collector from Vinschgau . He attended grammar school in Meran and Hall in Tirol and studied from 1839 at the University of Innsbruck . In 1841 he entered the seminary in Brixen and was in 1843 a novice in the Benedictine - Marienberg Abbey . In 1844/45 he studied with the Capuchins in Merano and attended the theological course in Marienberg in 1845/46, but left the order in 1846. He then studied in 1846/47 at the technical department of the Polytechnic Institute in Vienna, but then returned to Innsbruck in 1848, where he studied law from 1852 to 1855 and attended history lectures with Julius von Ficker . In 1848 he obtained the Absolutorium. From 1849 he was editor of the Tiroler Volks- und Schützen-Zeitung. In the 1860s he turned to historical studies, in 1866 he received his doctorate at the University of Tübingen . In 1866 he became the administrative assistant to the national defense authority for the organization of archival materials at the Tyrolean Lieutenancy, where he became official in 1869 with the title of archivist, and in 1875 auxiliary office. Adjunct, archive director in 1896 and retired in 1897. He was the first scientific archivist of the 1866 Lieutenancy Archives, which had been in existence since 1866, and is now the Tyrolean Provincial Archives . By organizing and indexing the holdings and the new archive building built between 1871 and 1873, he made the institution one of the most modern archives in Austria-Hungary at the time. From 1876 onwards, Schönherr undertook archival tours in the Kronland Tyrol and tried to save peripheral archives through centralization measures. When in 1882 Oswald Redlich was placed under him as an archive clerk, he initiated his large-scale campaign of the “Archive Reports from Tyrol”, which he launched together with Emil von Ottenthal in the following years. He published a large number of books and articles on the cultural heritage and history of Tyrol . His collected essays were published posthumously by his colleague Michael Mayr .

He was honored many times, for example Emperor Franz Josef I raised him to the nobility in 1885 ("Knight of"). In 1885 he became an honorary citizen of Merano, in 1891 of Latsch . In 1891 he became a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna.

Fonts (selection)

  • Franz Schweyger's Chronicle of the City of Hall 1303–1572. Wagner, Innsbruck 1867.
  • The Runkelstein Castle near Bozen. With an inventory of the castle from 1493. Wagner, Innsbruck 1874.
  • History and description of the old princely castle in Merano. Pötzelberger, Meran 1882.
  • Alexander Colin and his works 1562–1612. In: Communications on the history of the Heidelberg Castle. Vol. 2, H. 2/3 (1889), pp. 55-162.
  • Collected Writings. 1. Volume: Art History. Wagner, Innsbruck 1900 ( digitized version ).
  • Collected Writings. Volume 2: History and Cultural History. Innsbruck, Wagner 1902 ( digitized version ).

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personal data
SURNAME Schönherr, David von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schönherr, David Wendelin Ritter von; Schönherr, David; Schoenherr, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian and journalist; Head of the Innsbruck State Archives
DATE OF BIRTH 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Pflach
DATE OF DEATH November 17, 1897
Place of death innsbruck