Franz Karl Zoller

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Franz Karl Zoller (born September 4, 1748 in Klagenfurt , † November 18, 1829 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian engraver , painter , topographer and poet .

Life

Franz Karl Zoller was born as the youngest son of the painter Anton Zoller in Klagenfurt and came to Tyrol with his family when his father was granted citizenship in Hall in 1753 . There he attended the Jesuit grammar school and, after his father's death, was to become a clergyman at the request of his older brother Josef Anton . He also initially studied theology at the University of Innsbruck , but, encouraged by his teacher Ignaz Weinhart , moved to Vienna in 1768, where, with the support of Baron Sperges , he was able to train in landscape drawing and copperplate engraving with Jakob Schmutzer . In 1785 he returned to Tyrol and became road inspector for the Lower Inn Valley . Under the Bavarian occupation he became a building inspector in Brixen in 1809 and in Munich in 1810 . After Tyrol returned to Austria, he became the first adjunct at the kk provincial directorate in Innsbruck.

Zoller published topographical and historical descriptions of Tyrol such as the history and monuments of the city of Innsbruck and the surrounding area (1816/1825) or the alphabetical-topographical directory of all places in Tyrol (1827) as well as maps and copperplate engravings. He was also active as a poet, partly in dialect, and composed the war song of a Tyrolean in the Landsturm with the Spinges battle song , the Tyrolean shooting song and other battle songs during the Tyrolean struggle for freedom .

The Innsbruck district Wilten was Zollernstraße named after him.

Works

Topographic / historical works

  • Alphabetical-topographical index of all counties and lordships, regional judges, court judges, court marks and liberated truces, then cities, market towns, villages, and all the rest in ecclesiastical, cameral, political, commercial and historical consideration etc. and the thus to a certain extent united Vorarlberg lands. Wagner, Innsbruck 1806
  • History and memorials of the city of Innsbruck and the surrounding area from the oldest times to the extinction of the Austro-Tyrolean line with Archduke Sigmund Franz. Innsbruck in 1816
  • History and monuments of the city of Innsbruck and the surrounding area. Zweyter Part, From Emperor Leopold I to the surrender of Tyrol to the King of Bavaria, taking into account the events of the war at the same time. Wagner, Innsbruck 1825
  • Alphabetical-topographical paperback of Tyrol and Vorarlberg. Innsbruck 1827
  • Post and travel map of Tyrol and Vorarlberg, corrected according to the latest auxiliary sources, and completely worked out, by Kassian v. Jenner. Litographed and edited by Anton Falger. 1831

poetry

  • War song of a Tyrolean in the Landsturm. 1797
  • Tyrolean shooting song . 1808
  • The Tyrolean farmer to his king: A song in the vernacular on the most joyful return of your royal. Majesties and Sr. Königl. Highness of the Crown Prince from Italy. Innsbruck 1808
  • The Tyrolean Church Day: A national comedy with singing in two acts. Wagner, Innsbruck 1819

literature

Web links

Commons : Franz Karl Zoller  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Josefine Justic: Innsbruckerstraße name. Where do they come from and what they mean . Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck 2012, ISBN 978-3-7022-3213-9 , p. 105-106 .
personal data
SURNAME Zoller, Franz Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zoller, Franz Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian engraver, painter, topographer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1748
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1829
Place of death innsbruck