Johann Christian Engel

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Johann Christian (von) Engel (born October 17, 1770 in Leutschau , Kingdom of Hungary , † March 20, 1814 in Vienna ) was an Austrian historian . With his work entitled History of Ukraine and the Cossacks , he wrote one of the first known historical works about Ukraine .

Life

Engel was born in Levoča, now Slovakia , as the son of a Protestant middle-class family from the Spiš Tatras region and attended high schools in Levoča and Bratislava . In 1788 he began studying history and classical philology at the Georgia Augusta in Göttingen , which was then known as the “model university”. His teachers were u. a. Christian Gottlob Heyne , Johann Christoph Gatterer and August Ludwig von Schlözer .

Engel's first scientific publication Commentatio de republica militari seu comparatio Lacedaemoniorum, Cretensium, Cosaccorum from 1790 showed the influences of Heyne and Schlözer. The Transylvanian court chancellor, Dominik Teleki von Szék , gave him a job in 1791 at the Transylvanian court chancellery in Vienna. In 1797 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

During his civil service career he held the post of kuk court book censor from 1801 and from 1812 a secretary (at that time a high-ranking post) of the Transylvanian court chancellery; in that year he was also ennobled.

However, Engel gained importance through his work on the history of Hungary and the Carpathian region . On the basis of a comprehensive study of sources, he created specialist articles in magazines, monographs and extensive works. While his dissertation commentatio de religione veterum Hungrarorum (1791) was still not well received, his history of Galicia and Volhynia ( history of Halitsch and Vladimir ) received wide attention due to his historical research despite political tendencies.

Engel's main work is the history of the Hungarian Empire and its neighboring countries , in which he created a source-based special history of old Pannonia and its medieval neighboring countries ( Bulgaria , Dalmatia , Croatia , Slavonia , Serbia , Bosnia , Moldova and Wallachia ). The history of the Kingdom of Hungary published in 1812 , which dealt with Hungary itself, can be seen as a continuation and addition .

Engel died in Vienna in 1814 at the age of 44. He left behind his wife, whom he married on July 7, 1800, and five children.

Works

  • History of Halitsch and Vladimir up to 1772, connected with a dispute over the Austro-Hungarian ownership rights to these kingdoms. Edited from Russian and Polish yearbooks , 2 volumes, Vienna 1792/93
  • Commentation de expeditionibus Trajani ad Danubium et origine Valachorum , Vienna 1795
  • The history of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Cossacks, as well as the kingdoms of Halich-Vladimir , Halle 1796
  • History of the Hungarian Empire and its neighboring countries , 1797–1804
    • Halitsch and Vladimir until 1772, [1]
    • 1804, Moldova and Wallachia part 1
  • History of the Free State of Ragusa , Vienna 1807, digitized
  • Monumenta ungrica , (collection of sources on the history of Hungary), Vienna 1809
  • History of the Kingdom of Hungary , 5 volumes, Vienna 1812/13, Volume 1 , Volume 3 , Volume 4 , Volume 5

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Ludwig von Thallóczy : Johann Christian von Engel and his correspondence 1770-1814 . In: In: Hungarian Review for Historical and Social Sciences, Volume IV 1915, page 251 ( online )
  2. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 76.
  3. ↑ Ludwig von Thallóczy: Johann Christian von Engel and his correspondence 1770-1814 . In: In: Hungarian Review for Historical and Social Sciences, Volume IV 1915, p. 258 ( online )
  4. ↑ Ludwig von Thallóczy: Johann Christian von Engel and his correspondence 1770-1814 . In: In: Hungarian Review for Historical and Social Sciences, Volume IV 1915, p. 262 ( online )
personal data
SURNAME Engel, Johann Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Engel, Johann Christian von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1770
PLACE OF BIRTH Leutschau , Kingdom of Hungary
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1814
Place of death Vienna