Hieronymus Wilhelm Ebner von Eschenbach

Hieronymus Wilhelm Ebner von Eschenbach (* 1673 in Nuremberg ; † 1752 in Engelthal ) was a German diplomat, historian, scholar, promoter of the Enlightenment and founder of a private library, the Bibliotheca Ebneriana of the Nuremberg patrician family of the Ebner (the later barons Ebner von Eschenbach ) came from.

life and work

The Ebner coat of arms

Hieronymus Wilhelm (Guilielmus) Ebner von Eschenbach auf Guttenburg and Erlenstegen came from the younger main line of the Nuremberg patrician Ebner family. In his political career he rose to the post of foremost slogan of the imperial city of Nuremberg. In addition, he held the office of Reichsschultheiss and was the guardian of the imperial regalia kept in Nuremberg. His person was shaped by a four-year educational trip that followed his visit to the university in Altdorf. From then on, diplomatic tasks determined his everyday life as a member of the council, whereby his interests included philosophy, mathematics, philology, history and antiquity, numismatics, heraldry and genealogy. He was considered a great promoter of the Enlightenment. He had rendered outstanding services to the University of Altdorf as a curator for over 26 years. He enjoyed a high reputation as the founder of one of the most valuable and largest private libraries - the Bibliotheca Ebneriana - which he made publicly accessible for scholars to use.

Hieronymus Wilhelm Ebner von Eschenbach was a versatile educated man and caretaker of cultural goods. He was also the client of many traditional views (prospectuses) of Nuremberg's cultural assets in the form of copperplate engravings made by the copper engraver Johann Adam Delsenbach (1687–1765), who worked in Franconia .

As the nephew of Hieronymus Voit von Wendelstein, Hieronymus W. Ebner was given a property in Erlenstegen that also existed as an engraving - a manor house that was demolished after 1945 due to severe damage in the Second World War and thus disappeared from the cityscape.

Web links

Preserved copperplate engravings by HW Ebner von Eschenbach

Individual evidence

^ Albrecht Classen: Library culture of Nuremberg as the basis of a world culture. (Review on: Renate Jürgensen: Bibliotheca norica patricians and scholarly libraries in Nuremberg between the Middle Ages and the Enlightenment. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2002) IASLonline of February 28, 2004 , date of access: May 18, 2007.
↑ Günther Schulz (Ed.): Social rise: Functional elites in the late Middle Ages and in the early modern age: Büdinger research on social history 2000 and 2001 , Volume 25 of German leadership layers in the modern age, Büdinger research on social history, Wissenschaftsverlag Oldenbourg, 2002, p. 66 , 67.
↑ see also Rochus von Liliencron : Ebner von Eschenbach, Hieronymus Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 593 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Ebner von Eschenbach, Hieronymus Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ebner-Eschenbach, Hieronymus Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German diplomat, historian and scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	1673
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH	1752
Place of death	Engelthal

[1] Albrecht Classen: Library culture of Nuremberg as the basis of a world culture. (Review on: Renate Jürgensen: Bibliotheca norica patricians and scholarly libraries in Nuremberg between the Middle Ages and the Enlightenment. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2002) IASLonline of February 28, 2004 , date of access: May 18, 2007.

[2] Günther Schulz (Ed.): Social rise: Functional elites in the late Middle Ages and in the early modern age: Büdinger research on social history 2000 and 2001 , Volume 25 of German leadership layers in the modern age, Büdinger research on social history, Wissenschaftsverlag Oldenbourg, 2002, p. 66 , 67.

[3] see also Rochus von Liliencron : Ebner von Eschenbach, Hieronymus Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 593 f.