József Podmaniczky from Aszód and Podmanin

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József Podmaniczky
Entry in the register of Podmaniczky as a student in Göttingen in 1778

József Ludwig Podmaniczky von Aszód and Podmanin (born July 29, 1756 in Hungary , † May 11, 1823 in Pest ) was a Hungarian lawyer, politician and patron of the arts.

Life

Podmaniczky came from a Protestant Hungarian aristocratic family and studied law at the Georg August University of Göttingen from 1776 to 1779 , but also heard history, politics and statistics as well as August Ludwig von Schlözer's lectures on newspapers. A silhouette of him as a student is in the Schubert silhouette collection in the Göttingen SUB . Together with the Catholic Counts Friedrich Lothar and Johann Philipp von Stadion , he heard the lectures of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg and corresponded with him later. After graduating, he completed his Grand Tour through England, France and Italy. In London he was admitted to the Royal Society as a Fellow on June 8, 1780 .

Podmaniczky entered the administrative service of the Habsburg Monarchy in 1780 and was Gubernialrat in Fiume in 1783 , from 1786 to 1807 he was the royal Hungarian governor in Ofen and finally chief clan of the Bács-Bodrog county . In the 1790s he was one of the leaders of the noble national reform movement of Hungary and dealt with the injustices of the Habsburg state customs and tax law from a Hungarian perspective. In 1807 he was appointed a really secret council of state. He represented Austria in Paris in 1815 at the negotiations of the War Assessment Commission ( Second Peace of Paris ) and was employed there for three years in order to release France's reparation payments to which Austria was entitled.

As a patron of the arts, József Podmaniczky made an outstanding contribution to the Hungarian theater. The Budapest conductor and composer Johann Spech (1767–1836) composed the funeral cantata for him as his patron and patron.

literature

  • Z. Fallenbüchel:  József Podmaniczky von Aszód and Podmanin. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 137.
  • Eva H. Balázs: Hungary and the Habsburgs, 1765-1800: An Experiment in Enlightened Absolutism , Central European University Press, 1997
  • Márta Fata, Gyula Kurucz, Anton Schindling: Peregrinatio Hungarica: Students from Hungary at German and Austrian universities from the 16th to the 20th century , Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006, p. 176; 184-186
  • Hans-Joachim Heerde: The audience of physics: Lichtenberg's listener. Göttingen: Wallstein 2006 ISBN 978-3-8353-0015-6 , p. 491f.

Web links

Commons : József Podmaniczky  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carsten Cell: Enlightenment (en) im Osten , Wallstein Verlag, 1995, p. 65.
  2. ↑ List of Fellows of the Royal Society 1660 - 2007 (PDF file; 1.05 MB), accessed October 5, 2012; here the form of the name Podmanctzky, Joseph Louis de , in other sources also Baron Joseph Lewis Podmaniczky ; he was listed as a home member , not as an external member, see Philosophical Transaction 1781
personal data
SURNAME Podmanin, József Podmaniczky from Aszód and
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Podmaniczky von Aszód and Podmanin, Joseph Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian lawyer, politician and patron of the arts
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1756
PLACE OF BIRTH Hungary
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1823
Place of death pest