Franz Theodor Biergans

Franz Theodor Mathias Biergans (born May 22, 1768 in Aldenhoven , † January 18, 1842 in Cologne ) was a German canon , Jacobin , writer and notary .

Live and act

Title page of the first edition Brutus or the Enemy of Tyrants (1795)

Franz Theodor Mathias Biergans was born in Aldenhoven in 1768 as the son of the trader Matthias Franz Biergans, who died in 1771, and his wife Katharina Elisabeth née Lintzen. Biergans entered the Kreuzherrenkloster Schwarzenbroich ( Order of the Holy Cross , OSC) at the request of his mother in 1786 , which he left again in 1789, after he had unsuccessfully appealed to the vicar general in Cologne that same year against the validity of his religious vow ( profession ) .

He joined the Austrian army during the Russo-Austrian Turkish War , probably deserted at the end of 1789 and was a short-term Latin teacher at a school in Stuttgart .

In 1789 he returned to the Schwarzenbroich monastery . Since Biergans sought protection from prosecution because of his suspected desertion , more secular reasons speak for this return. His distance from monastery life became clear as early as 1789 in the text Satyrisches Allerley für Kutten und Schwarzkirts (printed at the expense of the father) , for which books were banned in Vienna .

With the occupation of the Rhineland by French troops at the end of the 18th century, he left the Schwarzenbroich monastery again and became politically active as a German Jacobin in Cologne. In Düren he gave a speech on February 28, 1795, in which he criticized the church in a provocative way.

Biergans published the political magazine Brutus or the Tyrant Enemy from 1795 with the permission of the French “Administration Centrale du pays d'entre Meuse & Rhin” in Cologne; from 1796 the magazine "Brutus der Freye" and from 1815 the magazine Aurora in Aachen .

From March 1798 Biergans was Commissioner ( Commissar du Gouvement ) of the French government in Brühl . From June 1800 he became a public notary and justice of the peace in Monschau and from 1806 in Aachen. Between 1836 and 1838 he was finally a notary in Wegberg before moving to Cologne for the last years of his life. Earlier this year, 1840 Biergans editor of the literary magazine Omnibus between the Rhine and the Niemen , in the poem eyes that do not look distant from Heinrich Heine was published in 1840, until he was an eye condition for transferring the editors of Johann Baptist Rousseau forced.

Biergans was married to Gertrud Clever, who separated from him in 1820. He died in Cologne in 1842, leaving behind 4 children and 5 grandchildren.

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Satyrical Allerley for frocks and black coats (printed at the expense of the Vatican) . 1789.
Museη-Almaηach to the year 1795. Or paperback for lovers of poetry . Langenschen Buchh., Cologne 1795.
Register of sins of the former governments between the Meuse and the Rhine . Cologne 1795.
Brutus or the Tjrannenfeind, a ten-day script to spread light and patriotism . Cologne 1795.
Brutus der Freye, a ten-day font by Brutus Biergans. 1st quarter, issue 1–9 . Aachen 1796.
Brutus der Freye, a ten-day font by Brutus Biergans. 2nd quarter, issue 1–2 . Cologne 1796.
The desecration of Germany . JH Schwarzenberg, Aachen 1814.
Aurora. No. 1. Tuesday, January 17th, 1815 . Aachen 1815.
The bard of the Ruhr . Th. Blieckr., Aachen 1815.
Minne poems. A toilet gift for sensitive youngsters and loving girls . Spitz, Cologne 1819.

reception

The figure of Franz Theodor Biergans was processed in a historical novel by Tilman Röhrig :

The kings of Cologne: historical novel . Pendo-Verlag (Pieper), Munich 2014. ISBN 978-3-492-96750-1

literature

Jakob Beneden (1870): The German Republicans under the French Republic . Brockhaus publishing house, Leipzig
Lucien Calvié (1990): "Jacobinisme" et idée nationale en Allemagne à l'époque révolutionnaire: le cas de Görres . in: Annales historiques de la Révolution française, No. 1, Vol. 282, 1990. pp. 404-421.
Paul Fabianek (2012): Consequences of secularization for the monasteries in the Rhineland - Using the example of the monasteries Schwarzenbroich and Kornelimünster . 2012, Verlag BoD, ISBN 978-3-8482-1795-3
Axel Kuhn (1978): German Jacobins on the left bank of the Rhine. Appeals, speeches, minutes, letters and writings 1794-1801 . Metzler publishing house, Stuttgart, ISBN 978-3-4760-0387-4
E. von Dorst-Gudenau (1882): The Kreuzbrüder monastery Schwarzenbroich (Mathiasthal) and the Spital zu Geich . in: Zeitschrift des Aachener Geschichtsverein , fourth volume, Aachen, 1882, pp. 1-20.
Joseph Götzen (1925): The first Cologne muse almanac from 1795 and its author Franz Theodor Matthias Biergans . Yearbook of the Cologne History Association 6-7 (1925), pp. 168–185.
Christine Krebs (2009): Jacobinism as the root of journalism . Diploma thesis, University of Vienna
Cornelius von Grumbkow (1982): Franz Theodor Mathias Biergans (1768-1842) . in: Democracy and Workers' History - Yearbook 2. Alektor-Verlag, Stuttgart, ISBN 978-3884250198
Friedrich E. Freiherr von Mering (1849): History of castles, manors, abbeys, etc. Monasteries in the Rhineland and the provinces of Jülich, Kleve, Berg and Westphalen . Publishing house by FE Eisen, Cologne
Pierre Sergent (1984): Annales historiques de la Révolution française . Volume 56, No. 255/256, LE MOUVEMENTE REVOLUTIONNAIRE DANS LES PAYS ALLEMANDS. Pages 88–102 (FRANZ THEODOR BIERGANS, UN PUBLICISTE RÉVOLUTIONNAIRE ALLEMAND)

Web links

Biographical information on beer goose

Individual evidence

^ E. Pauls: Contributions to the history of the book printers, the book trade, the censorship and the newspaper press in Aachen up to the year 1816. Journal of the Aachener Geschichtsverein. Volume 15, 1893, p. 155.
↑ Dietmar Schmitz: Lebensbilder -Notar Biergans in Wegberg. Berker Bote (communications from the historical association Wegberg eV), No. 12, March 2000, pp. 299–302.
^ Paul Fabianek: Consequences of secularization for the monasteries in the Rhineland - Using the example of the monasteries Schwarzenbroich and Kornelimünster , 2012, Verlag BoD, ISBN 978-3-8482-1795-3 , pp. 17-20.
↑ FT Biergans: Brutus or the enemy of tyrants - a ten-day pamphlet to spread light and patriotism. P. 14.
^ Paul Fabianek: Consequences of secularization for the monasteries in the Rhineland - Using the example of the monasteries Schwarzenbroich and Kornelimünster , 2012, Verlag BoD, ISBN 978-3-8482-1795-3 , page 18.
^ Joseph Götzen: Johann Baptist Rousseau fifty-year poet anniversary - At the same time a contribution to the history of literary life on the Rhine in the first half of the 19th century. Yearbook of the Cologne History Association, 6/7 (1925), pp. 121–123.

personal data
SURNAME	Beer goose, Franz Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Biergans, Franz Theodor Mathias (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German monk and Jacobin
DATE OF BIRTH	May 22, 1768
PLACE OF BIRTH	Aldenhoven
DATE OF DEATH	January 18, 1842
Place of death	Cologne

[1] E. Pauls: Contributions to the history of the book printers, the book trade, the censorship and the newspaper press in Aachen up to the year 1816. Journal of the Aachener Geschichtsverein. Volume 15, 1893, p. 155.

[2] Dietmar Schmitz: Lebensbilder -Notar Biergans in Wegberg. Berker Bote (communications from the historical association Wegberg eV), No. 12, March 2000, pp. 299–302.

[3] Paul Fabianek: Consequences of secularization for the monasteries in the Rhineland - Using the example of the monasteries Schwarzenbroich and Kornelimünster , 2012, Verlag BoD, ISBN 978-3-8482-1795-3 , pp. 17-20.

[4] FT Biergans: Brutus or the enemy of tyrants - a ten-day pamphlet to spread light and patriotism. P. 14.

[5] Paul Fabianek: Consequences of secularization for the monasteries in the Rhineland - Using the example of the monasteries Schwarzenbroich and Kornelimünster , 2012, Verlag BoD, ISBN 978-3-8482-1795-3 , page 18.

[6] Joseph Götzen: Johann Baptist Rousseau fifty-year poet anniversary - At the same time a contribution to the history of literary life on the Rhine in the first half of the 19th century. Yearbook of the Cologne History Association, 6/7 (1925), pp. 121–123.