Eugen von Trauschenfels

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Eugen Trausch von Trauschenfels (born March 3, 1833 in Kronstadt , Transylvania , † February 20, 1903 there ) was a Transylvanian lawyer, publicist and historian.

Life

As the son of Kronstadt Senator Georg Friedrich Trausch von Trauschenfels and his first wife Katharina Josephe Barbenius , Eugen lost his mother a few weeks after his birth and, at the age of six, also his father. His sister Karoline von Salmen took over Eugen's education. Under the care of the vice-principal , he attended the Protestant grammar school in Kronstadt. In 1846 he moved to the upper secondary school in Sibiu , where he completed the k. k. Law Academy related.

In 1852 he went to the Vienna University of Applied Sciences, where George Phillips , Leopold von Neumann and Wilhelm Emil Wahlberg gave him special participation. He published articles in the Oesterreichische Blätter für Literatur und Kunst , a supplement to the official Wiener Zeitung .

After completing his studies, he joined the Großwardeiner k on December 15, 1855 . k. Lieutenancy department in the civil service and on January 25, 1857 became the actual chair judge actuary of the Belenyes chair district. with leave in its use at the Lieutenancy.

A little later he asked for his release and opened a law firm with his older brother Johann Peter Franz in Kronstadt. Received his doctorate in the same year , he acted as actuary of the Kronstadt Evangelical Presbytery in 1860/61 and represented the Kronstadt church district in the senior consistory .

When the Saxon constitution was restored and the municipal authorities were reorganized, he was appointed magistrate secretary in Kronstadt in 1861, and was initially assigned to the city court. In 1863/64 he was sent to the Transylvanian state parliament by the Reps district . In 1864/65 he sat as a member of his curia in the Reichstag and as a representative of the Mühlbacher See in the Klausenburger Landtag. In early 1866 he became community actuary, in September 1872 provisional chief notary of the Kronstadt city and district magistrate. In the university session of 1867/68 he represented the Reussmarkt chair.

At the beginning of 1863 he took over the editing of the Kronstädter Zeitung . In a printed farewell, he withdrew on February 20, 1867, after the dualistic structure of the empire had been sanctioned by the order of the Hungarian ministry; but he kept the editing of the calendar Der Sächsische Hausfreund (Johannes Gött, Kronstadt). In the first volume he wrote the biographies of J. K. Eber, Karl Fabritius, Franz Friedrich Fronius , Josef Haltrich , Friedrich Müller the Elder , Georg Friedrich Marienburg , Franz Obert , Friedrich Schuler von Libloy , Georg Daniel Teutsch , in the second those of Joseph Count Kémeny, Gustav Seivert and Heinrich Wittstock.

Repeatedly he turned against the Magyar oppression of the Transylvanian Saxons . With petitions to the Justice Minister von Péchy, he protested against the arbitrariness of the Hungarian courts of law. In Vienna , Trausch was a secular councilor for the Evangelical Upper Church Council of the Augsburg Confession .

Works (selection)

  • Magazine for history, literature and all the monuments and peculiarities of Transylvania
  • German treasure troves on the history of Transylvania (with a collection of Transylvanian writers), Kronstadt 1860
  • M. Marcus Fronius' visitation booklet. A contribution to the church and moral history of Burzenland , ibid. 1868
  • Declaration of minutes of the city community of Kronstadt on the provisional regulation for the election of the representative bodies, the chair, district and community officials on the Königsboden , ibid. 1869
  • On the history of public life in Transylvania from 1791–1848. Translated from the Hungarian by Baron Sigmund Kemény , ibid. 1871
  • On the legal situation of the former Törzburg dominion. Explanations , ibid. 1871
  • Kronstadt conditions at the time of Stephan Bathori’s rule in Transylvania (1571–1576) , ibid. 1874

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Eugen von Trauschenfels  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Judge was the head of a judicial district in Hungary.
personal data
SURNAME Trauschenfels, Eugen von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trausch von Trauschenfels, Johann Karl Eugen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Transylvanian administrative lawyer, publicist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Kronstadt
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1903
Place of death Kronstadt