Franz Xaver Zimmermann

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Zimmermann (right) with his friend Karl Hans Strobl

Franz Xaver Zimmermann (born June 4, 1876 in Hopfgarten in Tyrol; † March 20, 1959 in Klagenfurt ) was an Austrian teacher , writer and chancellor of the Austrian Embassy at the Vatican .

Life

Zimmermann graduated from high school in Olomouc with the Matura and then studied philology in Prague from the winter semester 1895/1896 . During his studies he was active in Corps Austria . He completed his academic training with a doctorate to become a Dr. phil. from. He then became a teacher at a grammar school in Klagenfurt. The activity was interrupted for a stay in Rome as Chancellor of the Austrian legation at the Vatican. As an employee of the Institute for Carinthian State Research in occupied Gorizia , he transported archives from the Archivio Morelliano to Greater Germany in November 1944 .

Works

  • Roman letters from Princess Karoline San-Wittenstein to Count Karl Coronini-Cronberg , Vienna and Leipzig 1916
  • Gorizia - history a. Stories from d. City, d. County & their Friulian foothills (= Görzer Studies, Vol. 1), Klagenfurt 1918
  • The churches of Rome , Munich: Piper 1935
  • Roman present - elegies, visions, vedutas , Vienna: Walter 1944
  • The gravestone of the Ostrogothic king's daughter Amalafrida Theodenanda in Genazzano near Rome , in: Contributions to older European cultural history (= Festschrift for Rudolf Egger), Klagenfurt: Verlag des Geschichtsverein für Kärnten, 1953, pp. 330–354
  • Gorizia di ieri , 2008, ISBN 978-88-6102-047-4

literature

  • Teichl: Austrians of the present , Vienna 1951
  • Giebisch: Small Austrian Literature Lexicon , Vienna 1948

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ University of Prague, University Archives , Catalog of the Philosophical Faculty 1895/96, No. 89.
  2. ↑ Jürgen Herrlein : Corps Austria, Corpsliste 1861-2001, Frankfurt am Main 2001, serial no.228.
  3. ^ Ruggero Ranieri: The Allies and Art Protection in Italy , in: Christian Fuhrmeister, Johannes Griebel, Stephan Klingen, Ralf Peters (eds.): Art historians in war. German military protection of art in Italy 1943–1945 . Böhlau, Cologne 2012, p. 45
personal data
SURNAME Zimmermann, Franz Xaver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Hopfgarten in Tyrol
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1959
Place of death Klagenfurt