Johann Anton Deschan von Hansen

Johann Anton Deschan von Hansen , name variants: Johann Anton De-Jean , Johann Anton De-Schan , Johann Anton De Schann , Johann Anton Dejean , Johann Anton Jean (* 1686 in Montcassel , Lorraine ; † March 3, 1760 Pressburg ) was the administrative councilor of land administration crown- and chamber domain Banat of Temeswar , head of the Banat mining industry and the Banat medical Commission during the plague 1738/39, Hungarian Hofkammerrat and director of the salt being in the Kingdom of Hungary .

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Deschan entered the imperial military service in 1704 , which he finished in 1718. He then completed his law studies in Strasbourg and Mannheim . In 1716 he took part as captain in the siege of Timisoara and in 1717 in that of Belgrade .

Deschan entered the service of the imperial administration in Timisoara in 1718. In 1720 he was in his thirties and then worked as a salt collector. In 1724 he took the position of the interim administrative council of the Timisoara administration. In January 1726 he took over the post of chief inspector of the Banat Mining and Mining Department and in 1727 became its director. On February 3, 1728, Deschan was raised to the hereditary nobility by the emperor and was given the title "von Hansen". From 1733 he was a real Banat administrative councilor and headed the Banat accounting department. In 1735 he had the Deschan Palace, which is now a listed building, built in Timisoara.

Deschan was appointed chief inspector of Pressburg in 1737, but remained in the Banat until 1739 as head of the medical commission during the plague of 1738/39. In 1740 he donated the plague column on Timisoara Cathedral Square . In 1739 he went to Szeged and then to Pressburg, where in 1745 he became the Hungarian court chamber councilor and from 1751 director of the salt industry in Hungary.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Anton Peter Petri : Biographisches Lexikon des Banater Deutschtums , Marquartstein, 1992, ISBN 3-922046-76-2
2. ↑ TIMISOARA (Timisoara). Little Vienna. ( Memento of the original from October 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on rumaenien-info.at