Franz Xaver Huber (publicist)

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Parish Munderfing, baptismal register 05, 1755

Franz Xaver Huber (born November 21, 1755 in Munderfing , Innviertel , † around 1809 ) was an Austrian publicist and historian.

Life

Franz Xaver Huber was the son of the farmer Johann Huber and his wife Magdalena. From 1771 he graduated from the Stiftsgymnasium Kremsmünster , came to Salzburg in 1781 and taught the pupils of the Collegium Rupertinum, now the Academic Gymnasium Salzburg . He died in Vienna around 1809.

Act

From 1790 Franz Xaver Huber was in Passau and published the '' Kurier an der Donau '' and from 1799 the '' Wochenblatt für den Bürger und Landmann ''. He later moved to Vienna. Because the names are identical, works by the writer and librettist Franz Xaver Huber of the same name, born in 1755 in Beneschau in Bohemia, are sometimes ascribed to the Innviertel region . Not all publications of the two contemporaries can be clearly assigned.

In the book History of Joseph II, Roman Emperor, ... Huber deals with the Treaty of Teschen, which was concluded in 1779 after the War of the Bavarian Succession . In 1779 Josef II visited Bohemia and then the Innviertel in October of the same year. Huber deals in detail with the tolerance patent , the closure of churches and the abolition of monasteries. The church reforms of Joseph moved Pope Pius VI. 1782 to travel to the Kaiser in Vienna.

Record-based history of the famous Salzburg emigration : The Salzburg emigration edict of Prince Archbishop Leopold Anton von Firmian of 1731 ordered the expulsion of Salzburg Protestants. King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia settled displaced people in his eastern provinces. In this translation of the book by Giovanni Battista de Caspari (Gaspari) - who lived in Salzburg at the time of the expulsion - Huber represents the ecclesiastical standpoint of the time. Archbishop Andreas Rohracher was the first to regret the expulsion in 1966.

In the biography In memory of the blessed philanthropist Sigmund Hafner , Franz Xaver Huber wrote about the Salzburg merchant, mayor and patron Sigmund Haffner (1699–1772). Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed the Haffner Serenade KV 250 for him. On the occasion of his elevation to the nobility, he dedicated the Haffner Symphony KV 385 to his son. The Sigmund-Haffner-Gasse in Salzburg is named after him. It leads from the Rathausplatz to the Franciscan Church.

He is the author of the libretto for Ludwig van Beethoven's oratorio Christ on the Mount of Olives , first performed in 1803.

Works

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to Munderfing's baptismal register; older sources give the year of birth as 1760.
  2. ↑ Judith Roßbach: Beethoven: Oratorium Christ on the Mount of Olives op. 85. In: Stifts-Chor Bonn. May 2, 2015, accessed October 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Huber, Franz Xaver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian publicist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1755
PLACE OF BIRTH Munderfing , Innviertel
DATE OF DEATH around 1809