Johann Christian Herchenhahn

Johann Christian Herchenhahn (born May 31, 1754 in Coburg , † April 23, 1795 in Vienna ) was a German lawyer , diplomat and historian .

Life

The son of the Coburg councilor Anton Herchenhahn studied at the University of Erfurt , where his brother-in-law Johann Georg Meusel was professor of history, and then from 1777 to 1779 in Jena . Then he went to Vienna and became tutor to the Reichshofrat Braun. In 1784 he briefly took over the editing of the "Wiener Realzeitung".

Vienna Real Newspaper (1772)

Herchenhahn began his diplomatic career in 1789 as Legation Councilor for Saxony-Meiningen and Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt . Herchenhahn was appointed Reichshofrat agent.

Since 1954, in Vienna's Leopoldau the Herchenhahn street named after him.

Fonts

• History of the Austrians under the Babenbergs. From sources and original writers . Leipzig 1784 ( digitized version )
• History of the reign of Emperor Joseph the First . Leipzig
  • Volume 1, 1786
  • Volume 2, 1789 ( digitized version )
• The siege of Belgrade under the leadership of Prince Eugene. A gallery of historical paintings . Leipzig 1788 ( digitized version )
• History of Albrechts von Wallenstein , the Friedlander . Altenburg
  • Volume 1, 1790 ( digitized version )
  • Volume 2, 1790 ( digitized version )
  • Volume 3, 1791 ( digitized version )
• Feud of the papal chair with the imperial crown over the investiture . Altenburg 1791 ( digitized version )
• History of the origin, formation and present state of the imperial Reichshof council , along with the type of treatment of occurring in the same business . Mannheim
  • Volume 1, 1792 ( digitized version )
  • Volume 2, 1792 ( digitized version )
  • Volume 3, 1793 ( digitized version )
• Representation of the Reichshof Council's ordinary procedure . Mannheim 1793 ( digitized version )

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Herchenhahn, Johann Christian . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 8th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1862, p. 363 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Franz von Krones :  Herchenhahn, Johann Christian . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 51.

Web links

• Works by and about Johann Christian Herchenhahn  in the German Digital Library
• Consortium of European Research Libraries : Herchenhahn, Johann Christian (1754–1795) Catalog of works