Hans Tauber (local researcher)

Hans Tauber , with full name Johann Hermann Tauber (born December 19, 1848 in Vienna , † December 16, 1913 in Graz ), was an Austrian lawyer and local researcher. He is described as the first generation of local history researchers in Styria . Some of the first archaeological information about barrows from the time of the Noric - Pannonian settlement of western Styria can be traced back to him. The finds he made were generally given to the Styrian State Museum Joanneum .

Life

Hans Tauber was one of five children of Samuel Tauber and Luise, nee Noble von Höhnigsberg. His father was a businessman, stock exchange operator and employee of his father-in-law in the kk tobacco monopoly . From 1867 to 1871 he studied law at the University of Vienna , then in Graz, where he received his doctorate degree on January 26, 1877. juris. Even during his studies he had contact with the Stainz doctor Dr. Carl Julius Machan. On April 15, 1884 he married Anna Amalia Leopold, a daughter of the Stainz cafetier Georg Leopold and Anna Rohrbacher, miller's daughter from Stainz. His daughters Marianne and Margarete were born in 1887 and 1898. At that time he was adjudicator at the Stainz District Court . In 1895 he was examining magistrate, in 1898 court adjunct in Graz, in 1901 regional court secretary and from 1906 to 1911 regional judge in this city. After his death on December 16, 1913, his body was cremated in Zittau ; the urn is buried in the Protestant cemetery in Graz St. Peter .

In addition to his job as a lawyer, Tauber trained as a painter, a number of landscape views have been preserved, a picture of the main square of Stainz 1866 is owned by the market town of Stainz. The fact that a short artistic training could have taken place in Munich has been published, but cannot be proven. A portrait of Hans Tauber with the title "The Landscape Painter" was made by Anton Marussig in 1913.

In 1908 Hans Tauber had a log house built above the spring system in Sauerbrunn near Marhof, the "Villa Tauber". It was later run by his daughter Margarete as "Pension Vogrin" as a supplement to the inn in Bad Sauerbrunn (closed in 1978). The house still existed in 2020.

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Tauber devoted himself to researching the barrows in western Styria in the area between Stainz and Lannach . Hans Tauber is one of the first excavators who examined and described the grave mounds of western Styria using systematic methods (e.g. sector-by-sector cuts). Already in his day burial mounds were leveled by local farmers without further investigation in order to simplify the cultivation of agricultural land. Remnants of these places are described by him in such a way (e.g. by the vulgon names of the farms) that these places could be found later.

His findings z. He wrote about the excavations in the Stallhofmüllerwald and Pletererwald near Pichling and Georgsberg near Stainz or in the Neuröllwald near Zabernegg in Wetzelsdorf in diaries, some of which have been preserved. A part of a fibula from Pichling in the Joanneum could be assigned to the findings of Hans Tauber.

As part of his research, he also dealt with numismatics in Styria. In 1892 he published a 186-page article about the mint in Graz.

A collection of found objects by Hans Tauber was auctioned off in a Graz hotel after his death. The extent to which these were archaeological finds or coins from his possession is not documented.

Publications

• Archaeological diary. Burial mound in western Styria. Edited (transfer of the currently written text) by Karl Dudek. Graz, Vehling Verlag 2013. ISBN 978-3-85333-227-6 .
• Styrian quarter thalers and pieces similar to them. In: Numismatic Society in Vienna (Hrsg.): Numismatic magazine. ISSN  0250-7838 , ZDB -ID 203069-X . Volume 26, self-published, Vienna 1894. pp. 261–270.
• On the history of the Styrian coinage in the time after the death of Leopold I (May 5, 1705) until the end of the Graz Mint (with 2 plans) . In: Numismatic Society in Vienna (Hrsg.): Numismatic magazine. Volume 24, self-published, Vienna 1892 pp. 171–356.
• Gold coin of Emperor Ferdinand I. In: Numismatic Society in Vienna (Hrsg.): Numismatic magazine. Volume 26, self-published in Vienna 1890. pp. 145–156.
• Commentary on the contribution From the Imperial and Royal Mint Cities . In: Monthly Journal of the Numismatic Society in Vienna. ISSN  0258-5669 , ZDB -ID 511195-X . Volume 1890, pp. 436-438. The quoted article appeared in: Provinzialnachrichten aus den kaiserl. royal States. (complete: Provincial news from the imperial royal states and hereditary countries: ordinances, police, trade, art, acquisition and economy, also containing learned news). Volume 33, October 23, 1782, von Trattnern, Vienna 1782. ZDB -ID 1078083-X . Pp. 493-495.
• Description of the Styrian coins, especially the Kipper coins from the years 1617-1623. Appendix II to: Arnold Luschin von Ebengreuth : The long money or the dump truck time in Styria. Communications of the Historical Association for Styria ZDB -ID 345732-1 Volume 38, Graz 1890. P. 59–75.

literature

• Karl Dudek: Dr. Hans Tauber - a first generation Stainz local researcher. In: Weststeirische Rundschau . No. 18, volume 2020 (May 1, 2020), 93rd volume. ZDB -ID 2303595-X . Simadruck Aigner u. Weisi, Deutschlandsberg 2020, p. 9.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Dudek, Dr. Hans Tauber , West Styrian Rundschau .
2. ↑ Archäologisches Tagebuch , p. 190. Not to be confused with the district physician Dr. Dr who worked in Stainz from 1850–1865. Matthias Macher .