Ernst Münch (historian, 1798)

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Ernst Münch , as he consistently called himself, also in the title of his works, with full baptismal name: Ernst Hermann Joseph Münch , (born October 25, 1798 in Rheinfelden ; † July 9, 1841 there ) was a Swiss historian , librarian and university professor .

Life

Ernst Münch was born into a strict Catholic family. He studied law at the University of Freiburg , where he learned friendship a. a. concluded with Karl von Rotteck and Heinrich Zschokke . He became a member of Corps Helvetia in 1815/16 , of Harmonie in 1817 and co-founder of the cooperative in 1818 , which later became the Freiburg fraternity . After completing his studies, he returned to his homeland and was briefly a substitute in the court clerk in Aarau. From 1819 to 1822 he was a teacher at the Aarau Cantonal School and in 1824 became professor for historical auxiliary sciences in Freiburg.

In 1828 he moved to the University of Liège as a professor of church history and canon law . But his position there soon became untenable. The Catholic professors called him a "free spirit" due to the anti-Roman tendency of his writings; the liberal professors, striving for Belgian independence, accused him of being partisans of the Netherlands. As a result, he was unable to give lectures and instead concentrated on historical research. In the following year he followed a call from King Wilhelm I of the Netherlands as a state librarian in The Hague .

In 1831 King Wilhelm I of Württemberg appointed him librarian at the Royal Reference Library with the title of Privy Councilor in Stuttgart.

In his books, Münch mainly devoted himself to the following historical epochs and topics:

  • History of European countries in modern times and European contemporary history (Baden, Württemberg, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Ottoman Empire )
  • Recent Latin American History (Colombia, Brazil)
  • Biographies of and historical studies of personalities of the Renaissance period , especially women
  • Church history

Ernst Münch died, only two months after the death of his wife, at the age of 43 of the consequences of a stroke. He left 4 children. His son Arnold Münch was a politician in Switzerland.

Publications (selection)

From the years in Freiburg

  • Federal songs . Schweighauser, Basel 1822.
  • The armies of Christian Europe against the Ottomans and the attempts of the Greeks to freedom . 5 vols. Schweighauser, Basel 1822–1826, of which volumes 3 to 5 with a separate title:
    • 3: The history of the latest incidents with the Ottomans, and the events of the great uprising of the Hellenes up to the declaration of the Kalamata Congress to the princes and peoples of Europe .
    • 4: History of the uprising of the Hellenic nation from the assassination of the patriarch and declaration of the Congress of Kalamata to our day - The events of 1821 .
    • 5: History of the revolt of the Hellenic nation from the assassination of the patriarch and declaration of the Congress of Kalamata to our day - The events of the years 1822, 1823 and 1824 .
  • The fates of the old and new Kortes of Spain . 2 vols. Metzler, Stuttgart 1824–1827.
  • Charitas Pirkheimer , her sisters and nieces . Campe, Nuremberg 1826. ( digitized version )
  • Olympia Fulvia Morata . Contribution to the scholarly history of Baden . Wagner, Freiburg im Breisgau 1827.
  • Franz von Sickingen's deeds, plans, friends and the outcome . 3 vols. Cotta, Stuttgart 1827-1829.
  • King Enzius . Contribution to the history of the Hohenstaufen . Nast, Ludwigsburg 1828 ( online ); revised new edition under the title King Enzio . Nast, Stuttgart 1841.
  • Floor plan of a German antiquity . Wagner, Freiburg im Breisgau 1827.
  • Outlines of a history of the representative system in Portugal . Hinrichs, Leipzig 1827.
  • The history of Portugal . 3 vols. Hilscher, Dresden 1827.
  • The story of Columbia . 2 vols. Hilscher, Dresden 1828.
  • The history of Brazil . 2 vols. Hilscher, Dresden 1829.
  • Mixed historical writings . 2 vols. Nast, Ludwigsburg 1828.

From the years in Liege and the Hague

  • History of the house and country of Fürstenberg . 3 vols. Mayer, Aachen and Leipzig 1829–1832; continued with vol. 4 by Carl Borromäus Alois Fickler , Karlsruhe 1847
  • History of the House of Nassau-Orange . 3 vols. Mayer, Aachen and Leipzig 1831–1833. ( Digitized version )
  • The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , integrating part of the German Confederation . Vieweg, Braunschweig 1831.
  • Karl von Rotteck. Described according to his writings and according to his political effectiveness, along with an outline of his most excellent moments in life and allusions to the history of the public spirit in southern Germany . Hartmann, Haag 1831.
  • Memories of excellent women in Italy, their lives and their writings. Renea von Este and her daughters: Anna von Guise, Lukrezia von Urbina and Leonore von Este . Mayer, Aachen and Leipzig 1831.
  • Mary of Burgundy , with the life of her stepmother Margaret of York . 2 vols. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1832.
  • Margaretha of Austria , governor of the Netherlands . Scheible, Leipzig 1833.
  • Heinrich Zschokke. Described after his most excellent moments in life and his writings, with his friends and enemies, along with all sorts of things about life and goings-on, spirit and demon in small republics . Hartmann, Haag 1834.

From the years in Stuttgart

  • General history of recent times. From the end of the great struggle of the European powers against Napoleon Bonaparte up to our day . 6 vols. Scheible, Leipzig 1833–1835
  • Würtemberg in the recent times. Illuminated according to the conversation lexicon of the latest time and literature and according to reality . Carl Hoffmann, Stuttgart 1835.
  • Biographical-historical studies . 2 vols. Hallberger, Stuttgart 1836. Therein a. a .:
  • Memories, life pictures and studies from the first 37 years of a German scholar. With reviews of public, political, intellectual and moral life from 1815 to 1835 in Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands . 3 vols. Müller, Karlsruhe 1836–1838 (autobiography).
  • Roman Conditions and Recent Catholic Church Issues . Carl Hoffmann, Stuttgart 1838.
  • General history of the Catholic Church. From the end of the Tridentine Council to our day . 2 vols. Müller, Karlsruhe 1838–1840. Of the planned six volumes, Münch was only able to get two, the first and the last, to print before his untimely death:
    • 1: Fra Paolo Sarpi . His struggle with Roman curialism and Jesuitism, along with retrospectives on the rest of his life and work and his memorabilia
    • 6: History of the Emser Congress and its issues, as well as the related nunciature and dispensation disputes, reforms and progress of the German Catholic Church at the end of the eighteenth century
  • Memories of the political, Reformation and moral history of the last three centuries. With special regard to the excesses of the institutes of the Roman papacy, Jesuitism and monasticism . Hallberger, Stuttgart 1839.
  • Mahmud II. Padishah of the Ottomans. His life, his government and his reforms, together with glimpses of the immediate present and the future of the Turkish Empire . Krabbe, Stuttgart 1839.
  • Memories of the history of the Este and Lorraine houses in the 16th century and XVII. Century . Hallberger, Stuttgart 1840 ( online ).

As editor

  • All works of the German knight Ulrich von Hutten / Ulrichi ab Hutten equitis germani opera quae extant omnia . 5 vols. Reimer, Berlin 1821-1825.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theodor Schott: Münch, Ernst Hermann Joseph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie , Vol. 22, p. 714.
  2. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 46 , 2.
  3. ^ Theodor Schott: Münch, Ernst Hermann Joseph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie , Vol. 22, p. 715.
  4. ^ Theodor Schott: Münch, Ernst Hermann Joseph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Bs. 22, p. 716.

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personal data
SURNAME Münch, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Münch, Ernst Hermann Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Rheinfelden AG
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1841
Place of death Rheinfelden AG