Johann Christoph von Aretin

Baron Johann Christoph von Aretin (born December 2, 1772 in Ingolstadt , † December 24, 1824 in Munich ) was a German publicist , historian , librarian and lawyer .

Johann Christoph von Aretin. Painting by an unknown artist (1806)

origin

He came from the Aretin family . His parents were Karl Albert von Aretin (born September 3, 1741, † March 29, 1802) and his wife Maria Anna Rosina, b. Edle von Weinbach (March 24, 1747 - July 17, 1800). He was a brother of Johann Georg Freiherr von Aretin (1770-1845). Johann Christoph was married twice: His first marriage was on June 6, 1795 in Wetzlar with Dorothea von Requilé (* 1779 in Koblenz; † 1800). One son from this marriage was Karl Maria von Aretin . The second marriage was on June 15, 1802 in Wetzlar with Wilhelmine Freiin von Hertwich († 1849).

Life

In 1786 Johann Christoph completed his high school studies at the (today's) Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich . From 1792–1802 the trained lawyer and councilor von Aretin worked for various Bavarian administrative authorities. In 1802 he was appointed to the court and state library in Munich, where he played a key role in secularization . In 1806 he became senior librarian and subsequently a pioneer of modern librarianship . He was the superior of Bernhard Joseph Docen .

Aretin became a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences as early as 1796, and from 1801 he was its vice-president and secretary of the historical class. In 1797 he was elected a foreign member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . With the publication of the magazines Alemannia and Aurora and numerous publications, he made a name for himself beyond Bavaria in the world of science. He is also considered the (re) discoverer of Carmina Burana in 1803.

Aretin was a supporter of Napoleon and propagated a Europe-wide "revolution from above" in the sense of Montgelas , after a "revolution from below" had preceded in France. At the same time he saw an anti-Napoleonic-Protestant league at work around Friedrich Thiersch and other Protestant scholars who had come to Bavaria.

With Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi , the president of the academy, after Jacobi's speech provoking Bavaria (July 22, 1807), a so-called academy dispute broke out, in which the polarity between Bavarians / Catholics / French friends and "Northern Lights" / Protestants / opponents of Napoleon came into being Game was brought. A word of power from King Max I. Joseph contained the dispute, but did not prevent an attempt to assassinate Friedrich Thiersch in March 1811. Aretin was accused of having participated and, despite the lack of evidence, left.

He was transferred to Neuburg an der Donau on April 2, 1811 , where he became director and later vice-president of the court of appeal. The monthly Allemania , which he published with the support of his publisher Johann Esaias von Seidel from 1815 to 1816, turned against the romantic nationalism of Ernst Moritz Arndt and Johann Gottlieb Fichte in particular , and opposed the enlightened spirit of the Bavarian state reformers. From 1819 he became President of the Court of Appeal in Amberg and since then, as a member of the state parliament, has published the free-thinking state newspaper.

His estate is in the Bavarian State Library.

Fonts

• Free-spirited constitutional examination of the so-called legal report concerning the handover of the fortress Mannheim to the Reich enemy . 1796
• Letters from a Baier patriot about the newly established State General Directorate . 1799
• A new state parliament, the most important matter for Bavaria . 1799
• Historical treatise on the old age of the Bavarian estates . 1800
• From the oldest monuments of the art of printing in Bavaria and the use of their closer knowledge . 1801
• Attempt to discuss the right of seizure of the Reich Chamber Court presentations with reference to the latest case of devolution of the Bavarian district presentation . 1801
• Historical-literary treatise on the first printed collection of the Westphalian Peace Acts . 1802
• The oldest legend about the birth of Charlemagne . 1803
• Sayings of the Minne dishes . 1803
• History of the Jews in Bavaria . 1803
• Memorandum on the true concept and usefulness of mnemonic or memory science . 1804
• The Austrians in Bavaria at the beginning of the 18th century . 1805
• Concise theory of mnemonic . 1806
• Contributions to the literary history of the divining rod . 1807
• Prodromus of my literary handbook on Bavarian history and statistics . 1808
• About the earliest universal historical consequences of the invention of the art of printing . 1808
• The plans of Napoleon and his opponents especially in Germany and Austria . 1809
• Baier's largest range among the Agilolfingers, Carolingians , Welfs and Wittelsbachers is shown in 4 geographical maps to explain a strange utterance by Napoleon the Great . 1809
• Biography of Napoleon the Great . 1810
• Explanation . 1810
• Last defense against the invisible scholars in Bavaria . 1810
• Yearbooks of justice in Bavaria . 1811-1818
• News on the Bavarian history . 1812
• What do we want? . 1813
• Saxony and Prussia . 1814
• Saxony, Prussia, and Europe . 1815
• Discussions about the constitutional charter of the Kingdom of Bavaria . 1818
• Staberl in imperial stores . around 1818
• Treatises on important subjects of the state constitution and state administration, with special consideration for Bavaria . 1816
• Ludwig the Baier . 1820
• Detailed description of the Baierischen Kredit-Verein-Anstalt and its conditions for the landowners as well as for the capitalists . 1823
• About the establishment of a credit association for the Kingdom of Bavaria . 1823
• How can you write about political subjects in the German federal states? . 1824
• State law of the constitutional monarchy . 1824–27, continued by Karl von Rotteck
• The Aretin family . 1825

literature

• Karl Otmar Freiherr von Aretin:  Aretin, Johann Christoph Freiherr von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 348 ( digitized version ).
• Sigrid von Moisy, Bavarian State Library, Munich (Ed.): From the Enlightenment to Romanticism. Spiritual currents in Munich . Pustet, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-7917-0916-X , ( Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. Exhibition catalogs 29), (Exhibition: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, June 26 - August 24, 1984).
• Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1856. Sixth, year p.12

Web links

Wikisource: Johann Christoph von Aretin  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Johann Christoph von Aretin in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Johann Christoph von Aretin  in the German Digital Library
• The estate in the Bavarian State Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich. 4 volumes, Munich 1970–1976; Volume 2, p. 179.
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. 27.
3. ↑ Cf. on this Sepp Lösch: The personality of JE v. Seidels . In: Festschrift for the 950th anniversary of the city of Sulzbach-Rosenberg. Sulzbach-Rosenberg 1976.
4. ↑ Title recording  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. including full text of the repertory , catalog of the Bavarian State Library.