Hans von Voltelini

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Hans von Voltelini (born July 31, 1862 in Innsbruck , Austrian Empire , † June 25, 1938 in Vienna , Austria ) was an Austrian lawyer , historian , legal historian and university professor.

Live and act

Hans von Voltelini, son of Senate President of the Supreme Court and Cassation Court Lorenz von Voltelini and his wife Ida Ernst, was born in Innsbruck during the reign of the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I. He belonged to a noble family from Trent . He spent his childhood in Bolzano , where he lived at Kampenn Castle during the summer months. He studied history and law at the Universities of Innsbruck and Vienna . In order to deepen his studies he was in Rome , traditionally one of the most important international centers of historical and humanistic research, where he pursued his studies as a scholarship holder of the Austrian Historical Institute (ÖHI-Rom). His doctorate sub auspiciis to Dr. phil. took place in 1887, his doctorate to Dr. jur. 1892.

From 1886 to 1900 he worked as an archivist in the House, Court and State Archives in Vienna, which was founded in 1749 by Maria Theresa as the central archive of the House of Habsburg and is now part of the Austrian State Archives . His habilitation in German law and Austrian imperial history at the University of Vienna took place in 1899. In the following year, 1900, he became an associate professor there . From 1902 to 1908 he was a full professor at the University of Innsbruck. Voltelini returned to the University of Vienna in 1908, where he took up a position as a full professor of German legal history. His retirement took place in 1934. During the academic years 1916/17, 1917/18 and 1924/25 he served as dean of the Vienna law and political sciences faculty. He also represented them as a senator in the Academic Senate of the University of Vienna in the academic years 1920/21 to 1922/23.

He wrote several works on Austrian history. Under it he wrote about the city constitution, the cityscape and the social history of Vienna. Fundamental are his studies on the history of the medieval notarial profession , whose early reception in German-speaking countries he demonstrated using the example of South Tyrol .

Voltelini had been a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna since 1903 and a real member since 1909 . As part of his membership, he was a member of the Weistümer- und Urbarkommission, whose task was the edition of relevant legal sources, as well as the commission for the journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History . Since 1913 he was a member of the German Club . From 1920 until his death in 1938 he was a member of the board of the Association for the History of the City of Vienna .

His work The Beginnings of the City of Vienna attracted a lot of attention after its publication. However, the hypotheses listed there are now outdated, as Voltelini assumed a city was founded between 1030 and 1042.

His biographer Oswald Redlich described him as a small, delicately built man who was very nearsighted. Nevertheless, Voltelini mastered the most difficult mountain tours in the Alps , where he was often on the move.

Honors

  • Honorary title Councilor
  • In 1932, the Association for the History of the City of Vienna dedicated volume four of the essays on the history and sources of the City of Vienna to him on his 70th birthday .
  • In 1937 he received an honorary doctorate (Dr. hc) in political science and a golden doctoral degree from the philosophy faculty of the University of Vienna. He also held two honorary doctorates (Dr. hc) from the Universities of Innsbruck and Bonn .
  • On November 4, 1937, he was awarded the Ring of Honor of the City of Vienna , an award that has been given since 1925 to personalities who have contributed to increasing the reputation of Vienna through extraordinary artistic or scientific achievements and beyond the borders of Austria Have found recognition.
  • The Voltelinistraße in Jedlesee was established in 1940 named after him in honor.

Fonts (selection)

Statutes of Trento
  • 1899: The South Tyrolean notarial imbreviatures of the thirteenth century (Acta Tirolensia 2)
  • Statutes of Trento . Gerolds Sohn, Vienna 1902.
  • 1909: Research and contributions to the history of the Tyrolean uprising in 1809
  • 1911: The Codex Theresianus in the Austrian Council of State (in: Festschrift for the celebration of the century of the General Civil Code , Volume 1, pp. 33–82)
  • 1913: The beginnings of the city of Vienna
  • 1919: The Welsche Südtirol (Explanations of the Historical Atlas of the Austrian Alpine Countries I / 3: Tyrol and Vorarlberg). Vienna: Holzhausen, pp. 95-310. (on-line)

literature

  • Tamara Ehs, Thomas Olechowski, Kamila Staudigl-Ciechowicz: The Vienna Law and Political Science Faculty, 1918–1938. V&R unipress, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-899-71985-7 , p. 298ff.
  • Almanac. Volume 88, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1938, pp. 184 and 329
  • Gertrud Pfaundler: Tirol-Lexikon - A reference work about people and places in the state of Tyrol. Rauchdruck, Innsbruck 1983, ISBN 3-7065-4210-2 .
  • Wolfgang Weber : Biographical lexicon for historical studies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The holder of the chair for history from the beginnings of the subject until 1970. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-8204-8005-6 .
  • Richard Bamberger (Ed.): Austria Lexicon in two volumes. Publishing Association Österreich-Lexikon, Vienna 1995.
  • Ludwig Bittner (Hrsg.): Complete inventory of the Vienna House, Court and State Archives, based on the history of the archive and its holdings. Volume 4: History and inventories of the country departments and other smaller holdings. Holzhausen, Vienna 1938, p. 152ff.
  • JK Mayr: Hans von Voltelini. In: Monthly Gazette of the Association for the History of the City of Vienna, Edition 20, 1938, pp. 161f.
  • Karl-Hans Ganahl: Hans v. Voltelini . In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History . Volume 60: German Department, Weimar 1940, pp. XI – XXIV.
  • Rathaus-Korrespondenz, Vienna: Press and Information Service, July 28, 1962
  • Rathaus-Korrespondenz, Vienna: Press and Information Service, June 24, 1963

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ So Karl-Hans Ganahl: Hans v. Voltelini . In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. Volume 60: German Department, Weimar 1940, p. XII.
  2. ^ Andreas Gottsmann: Historical Institute , austriacult.roma.it
  3. ↑ Hannes Obermair : Il nello sviluppo della notariato città e del suburbio di Bolzano nei secoli XII-XVI. In: Il notariato nell'arco alpino. Produzione e conservazione delle carte notarili tra medioevo e età moderna (Studi storici sul notariato italiano, vol. XVI). Giuffrè, Milan 2014, ISBN 978-88-14203794 , pp. 293–322, reference p. 302.
  4. ^ Hans Voltelini in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  5. ↑ Tamara Ehs, Thomas Olechowski, Kamila Staudigl-Ciechowicz: The Vienna Faculty of Law and Political Science, 1918–1938. V&R unipress, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-899-71985-7 , p. 300.
  6. ↑ Treatises on the history and source studies of the City of Vienna , Volumes 4–5, 1932, p. 3.
  7. ↑ a b c Tamara Ehs, Thomas Olechowski, Kamila Staudigl-Ciechowicz: The Vienna Law and Political Science Faculty, 1918–1938 , V&R unipress, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-899-71985-7 , p. 816.
personal data
SURNAME Voltelini, Hans von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer, historian, legal historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Innsbruck , Austrian Empire
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1938
Place of death Vienna , Austria