Franz Joseph Dumbeck

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Franz Joseph Dumbeck (born November 21, 1791 in Mingolsheim im Kraichgau , Baden , † June 2, 1842 in Ziegelhausen near Heidelberg ) was a German historian at the University of Leuven .

Life

Franz Joseph Dumbeck was the first of six children of the school teacher Franz Peter Dumbeck and his wife Maria Apollonia geb. Nail. At the age of seven, his father died from an unfortunate fall from a tree into a sharp stake. The local priest took care of the boy and taught him Latin. From 1805 to 1810 he attended the grammar school in Bruchsal , after which he attended the Lyceum in Rastatt for two years . Around 1812 he studied theology at the University of Freiburg and 1814 Philology in Heidelberg. He received his doctorate on May 13, 1815, his dissertation " Geographia pagorum vetustae Germaniae Cisrhenanorum" deals with the districts on the right bank of the Rhine between Basel and Main in the 12th century.

In 1814 he became a teacher at the Köllnisches Gymnasium in Berlin . He taught literary history, Greek and German. In 1819 he became professor of history and geography at the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature at the University of Leuven . From 1825 to 1827 he was rector of this university.

He was friends with his compatriots Leopold August Warnkönig and Franz Josef Mone , who also got a job in Leuven in 1827 at his instigation.

Around 1823 he married Maria Katharina Braun from Ziegelhausen. Four children resulted from this marriage: Emilie Adelheid * 1823 in Ziegelhausen, Leopold * around 1828, † 1835 in Ziegelhausen, Heinrich * around 1830, † 1835 in Ziegelhausen and Walter Fridegar Amalrich * 1833, † 1834 in Ziegelhausen.

After 1835 he returned to Germany and died in Ziegelhausen in 1842.

Publications

  • Geographia pagorum vetustae Germaniae cisrhenanorum, proxime quidem Rhenum a Basilea ad Moenum Fl. sitorum, quales fere saec. XII. fuere, praemio ornata praemisso prooemio de pagis, et adjectis observationibus longioribus, indicibus copiosis et tabulis aeneis . Reimer, Berlin 1818 ( digitized ).
  • Historiae universae tabulae ethnographico-periodico-synchronisticae . Reimer, Berlin 1820.
  • Oratio Commentariis illustrata de re publica literata . Lion 1827.

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ According to the biographical reference works of the 19th century, he had the middle name Alois, according to DNB the middle name Ludwig.
  2. ↑ The Permalink Ziegelhausen (Catholic) death entry # 14: "... died there in the morning at nine o'clock and was buried on June 4th of this month ... aged 51 years ... married to Katharina Braun from here." (= Ziegelhausen)
  3. ^ Almanac royal de la cour, des provinces méridionales et de la ville de Bruxelles . Brussels 1830, p. 284.
  4. ↑ Source: Church book of the parish of Ziegelhausen
  5. ↑ Adelheit married * on November 30, 1842 in Schönau near Heidelberg, the Frankfurt merchant and cloth manufacturer in Schönau ( source: History 3 ) Peter Eugen Kolligs (founder of the Schönauer Liederkranz 1841)
  6. ↑ Klaus Gaßner (ed.): Bad Schönborn history. The chronicle of the reunited villages Mingolsheim and Langenbrücken . Volume 2: From the Grand Duchy of Baden to the merger of municipalities in 1971. Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 2015, ISBN 978-3-89735-861-4 . Pp. 42-43.
personal data
SURNAME Dumbeck, Franz Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dumbeck, Alois Franz Josef (full name); Dumbeck, Franz Josef; Dumbeck, Franciscus Josephus (Latinized form of name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH Mingolsheim , Kraichgau , Baden
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1842
Place of death Ziegelhausen near Heidelberg