Hermann von Liebenau

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Hermann von Liebenau (born October 3, 1807 in Knutwiler Bad ; † July 28, 1874 in Lucerne ) was a Swiss historian, writer and doctor.

Life

He was a son of Freiherr Joseph von Laßberg and the widowed Princess Elisabeth zu Fürstenberg . After the birth he was given to the doctor Philipp Lüthard in Reiden as a foster son. After studying at German and Austrian universities, he obtained a doctorate from the University of Bern in 1836. med. He was literary active on historical subjects, especially the Old Confederation . After two long stays at Eppishausen Castle with his father, he came to Lucerne in 1837. From 1855 to 1860 he was a senior physician in the Roman military service . After some writings on the history of the day, of which in particular: The April walk of the Freischaaren performed in the year 1845 towards Lucerne , already in the title clearly outlines the political view of the author, Liebenau turned to medieval history. It was first published in Lucerne in 1846: Attempt to document the empire-free Engelberg Monastery of the Order of St. Benedict in Switzerland, XII. and XIII. Century . He wrote contributions to the by Joseph Eutych Kopp published history sheets and in the statements of the Zurich antiquarian society , it was announced: The angle Riede of Stans, except for Arnold Winkelried , the hero of Sempach .

He also wrote articles in the Anzeiger für Österreichische Geschichte , on similar Swiss historical notebooks , and others. He first wrote treatises on the history of the origins of the Swiss Confederation in two New Year's Sheets from Urschweiz : The causes of the birth of the Confederation and the promotion of the Confederation by the House of Habsburg internal relationships and elaborated this in 1864 in the book Die Tell-Sage about the year 1230 . He came back to Winkelried in 1862 in the text: Arnold Winkelried, his time and his deeds, a historical picture based on the latest research .

Supported by his son Theodor von Liebenau , he devoted his last years to research into the life story of Queen Agnes of Hungary, the last Habsburg woman of the illustrious parent company in Aargau , and documents and registers on the history of the St. Gotthard Pass on the history of the St. Gotthard Pass . Hermann von Liebenau also occasionally worked as a fiction writer in magazines. He was married to Jakobea Pfyffer von Altishofen .

As a doctor, he looked after his father's sister-in-law, the poet Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, at Meersburg Castle until her death on May 24, 1848.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Waltraud Hörsch: Liebenau, Hermann von. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  2. ↑ Volker Schupp :  Laßberg, Joseph Freiherr von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , pp. 670-672 ( digitized version ). (Genealogy)
  3. ^ A b c Gerold Meyer von Knonau :  Liebenau, Hermann von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 562 f.
  4. ^ Argovia , Volume V, 1866
  5. ^ Archives for Swiss History, (Volume XVIII-XX, 1873–1875)

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personal data
SURNAME Liebenau, Hermann von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES von Geltwil (from 1824)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss doctor, writer and historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Knutwil
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1874
Place of death Lucerne