Franz Joseph of Samet

Franz Xaver Andreas Joseph Samet , from 1820 Knight of Samet (born December 2, 1758 in Munich ; † November 19, 1828 ibid), was Reich archivist at the Kgl. Bavarian General Reich Archives in Munich, the forerunner of today's Bavarian Main State Archives .

Life

Samet attended the Jesuit high school in Munich from 1769 to 1774 (today Wilhelmsgymnasium Munich ). After an internship from 1775 to 1776 in which Hofmarksgericht Egling - Harmating he studied from 1781 to 1782 law at the Universities of Munich and Göttingen . From 1783 to 1785 he worked as a court administrator and in 1786 was hired as a "registry setter and auditor" in the main registry of the electoral court chamber in Munich.

In this activity he designed a systematic order for the files in the main registry, which later became the basis for the holdings of today's Munich State Archives and marked the beginning of modern archiving in Bavaria. In 1790 he was appointed chief registrar and in 1795 the electoral real councilor . In 1799 he became director of the Secret State Archives, which was set up that year and from which the Kgl. Bayerische Allgemeine Reichsarchiv emerged , where he worked as a Reich archivist until his retirement in 1825.

A key distinction that Samet used as the basis for his structuring of the state and imperial archives differentiated between “archival” and “non-archival” written material. Archival records (eg. As certificates dissolved monasteries and important official records) were centralized, while non-archival records (eg. As younger acts and bills) in the registry depots or Archivkonservatorien Amberg , Landshut , Munich and Neuburg adDonau were kept, the Forerunners of the state archives that exist today in these locations (Neuburg State Archive moved to Augsburg in 1989 ).

Awards

1804 member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , 1807 honorary member.
1820 Knight of the Civil Merit Order of the Bavarian Crown

literature

Walter Jaroschka : Reich archivist Franz Joseph von Samet (1758–1828) . In: Communications for archive maintenance in Bavaria, special issue 8, 1972, pp. 1–27.
Walter Jaroschka: Samet, Franz Xaver Andreas Joseph Ritter von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 406 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

^ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vol., Munich 1970–1976; Vol. 3, p. 145 (there: Sammeth).
^ Archives: Archives in the German-speaking area, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1974, p. 665. - Short guide to the Bavarian State Archives, New Series , ed. by the General Directorate of the Bavarian State Archives, Munich 1996 ff. - Handbook of the Bavarian Archives , ed. from the Bavarian Archive Day, General Directorate of the Bavarian State Archives, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-921635-63-2 .

personal data
SURNAME	Samet, Franz Joseph von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sammeth, Franz Joseph v .; Samet, Franz Xaver Andreas Joseph Ritter von (full name); Samet, Franz Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Reich archivist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 2, 1758
PLACE OF BIRTH	Munich
DATE OF DEATH	November 19, 1828
Place of death	Munich

[1] Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vol., Munich 1970–1976; Vol. 3, p. 145 (there: Sammeth).

[2] Archives: Archives in the German-speaking area, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1974, p. 665. - Short guide to the Bavarian State Archives, New Series , ed. by the General Directorate of the Bavarian State Archives, Munich 1996 ff. - Handbook of the Bavarian Archives , ed. from the Bavarian Archive Day, General Directorate of the Bavarian State Archives, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-921635-63-2 .