Heinrich Joseph Adami

Heinrich Joseph Adami (born December 16, 1807 in Vienna ; † September 30, 1895 ibid) was an Austrian writer and newspaper journalist.

Life

Heinrich Joseph Adami was born in Vienna on December 16, 1807 into a middle-class family. In 1829 he graduated from the University of Vienna with a law degree . From 1832 he worked as an editor for Adolf Bäuerle's Vienna theater newspaper . As such, he devoted himself to music criticism for almost 16 years. For several years he also edited private business and information calendars . He also wrote the text for Gottfried von Preyer's oratorio Noah , and for him he also edited William Shakespeare's The Tempest . In 1848 Adami left the literary business. In that year he worked as an editor of the Wiener Zeitung , in the press and in 1850 in the Ostdeutschen-Post . He wrote articles especially about law and politics. Adami also had a judicial function, in 1850 he was appointed assessor .

Constantin von Wurzbach wrote an article about Adami in the Biographical Lexicon of the Austrian Empire in 1856 . Since Adami was still alive at the time, he did not give the date of his death there.

Works

• Old and New Vienna (Vienna 1841/1842; edited with others)
• Half a thousand small puzzles, easy to solve (anonymous)

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Adami, Heinrich Joseph . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 1st part. University printing house L. C. Zamarski (formerly JP Sollinger), Vienna 1856, p. 5 ( digitized version ).
• Austrian music lexicon . Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3043-0 (Volume 1).