Franz von Wieser

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Franz Wieser Ritter von Wiesenhort (born October 18, 1848 in Kufstein , Austrian Empire , † April 8, 1923 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian geographer , art historian and professor at the University of Innsbruck . He served as a long-time director of the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum and was state curator .

Life

Wieser came from a Tyrolean civil servant family. His father was a doctor, but he died early, leaving behind his mother and three younger siblings. His uncle Ludwig was raised to the rank of nobility as a knight of the third class of the Iron Crown in 1863 and received the title of nobility for his nephew, whose full name was Franz Wieser Ritter von Wiesenhort .

Wieser grew up in Innsbruck, in the house of his maternal grandfather, Berreiter, who was also an appellate judge, and there he came into contact with well-known Tyroleans and scholars and was interested in history at an early age. After graduating from high school in 1866, he began studying history with Julius Ficker at the University of Innsbruck, as well as German and classical philology. In the autumn of 1870 he completed his studies in Innsbruck with the doctoral and teaching examinations for German, geography and history, attended lectures on the history of the Middle Ages in Munich ( Wilhelm von Giesebrecht ) and seminar exercises in Göttingen ( Georg Waitz ) in the winter semester , where he also met geophysicists ( Johann Eduard Wappäus and Heinrich Wilhelm Dove ). In autumn 1871 he became a teacher at the secondary school in Brno (Johannesgasse), and from summer 1872 at the Bolzano State High School . After a leave of absence in the summer semester of 1874 for further studies at the University of Leipzig with Oscar Peschel , Wieser qualified as a lecturer in geography in Innsbruck in autumn 1874, became an associate professor in 1879 and a full professor in 1885. In 1901 he turned down the invitation from the University of Vienna to succeed Wilhelm Tomaschek († 1901). At the University of Innsbruck he was dean of the philosophical faculty and rector of the university in 1897/98. In 1920 he retired.

In 1887 he became honorary director of the Museum Ferdinandeum, and succeeded Prof. Alfons Huber in this position . He held this position until 1919. In 1890 he became a curator for the prehistoric department of the Central Commission for Art and Historical Monuments . From 1912 to 1922 he was the state curator for Tyrol and from 1911 a member of what is now the State Monuments Office.

The "Magalhaes Street"

Honors

Private

Wieser married Waltraut von Zingerle, daughter of the Germanist and poet Ignaz Vinzenz von Zingerle , in 1888 . The couple had four sons and two daughters.

See also

literature

  • Franz Ritter von Wieser: memorial; of friends and admirers of the eternal . In: Publications of the Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck . tape 5 , 1925 ( online [PDF]).
  • Johann Sölch: Franz v. Wieser . In: Geographical Journal . tape 30 , no. 1 , 1924, p. 1-6 , JSTOR : 27811311 .

Web links

Commons : Magalhâes-Strasse and Austral-Continent on the globes of J. Schöner (1881) by WIESER  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ From friends and admirers of the eternal: Commemorative: Franz Ritter von Wieser . Ed .: University and State Library of Tyrol. tape 5 . Innsbruck 1925, p. 6 .
  2. ^ Obituary by Ludwig Ritter von Wieser
  3. ↑ Festschrift to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the German State Secondary School in Brno, p. 37 , accessed on August 22, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Wieser, Franz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wiesenhort, Franz Wieser Ritter von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian geographer, art historian and lecturer at the University of Innsbruck
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Kufstein , Austrian Empire
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1923
Place of death innsbruck