Johann Daniel Albrecht Hoeck

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Johann Daniel Albrecht Hoeck (born May 13, 1763 in Gaildorf ; † January 7, 1839 in Ansbach ) was a German camerawoman and statistician .

Life

Family, childhood, youth, education

Johann Daniel Albrecht was the son of Johann Gottfried Hoeck , bailiff, and Juliana Dorethea Margaretha Salvelder , who had married in 1759. His grandfather was the chancellery Johann Jacob Hoeck . His father died on June 17, 1764 when his older sister was four years old, his older brother Johann Karl (born May 2, 1761) three years and he was 14 months old; his mother and her brother-in-law took care of the upbringing of the children. In the spring of 1777, when he was 14 years old, Johann Daniel Albrecht began training in cameralistics and forest economics at the Count's administration in Gaildorf. From the summer semester of 1780 he studied camera science and statistics , agriculture, chamber accounting, mathematics and natural sciences in Giessen ; his older brother Johann Karl began studying law there at the same time; After a job at Gottorf Castle and then in Meerholz , he married the pastor's daughter Wilhelmine Sophie Hedwig Frank from Meerholz on July 29, 1784 .

After completing his studies (1783), Johann Daniel Albrecht held a position as court master and as a fiscal actuary in Hanau and drew a view of his hometown Gaildorf , which was engraved in Hanau by the copper engraver Johann Jacob Müller. Also in 1783 he published a "Topographical Description of the Franconian Rule of Limburg".

Ysenburg-Büdingen-Meerholzer coat of arms with central shield for Limpurg-Gaildorf

Ten years as a registrar in Meerholz

Map of the county of Oberisenburg (1790) by Johann Daniel Albrecht Hoeck, from Wikimedia Commons

In 1786 he entered the Ysenburg service as second secretary and registrar in the residence of the county of Ysenburg-Büdingen-Meerholz in Meerholz . The Meerholzer registrar Philipp Christoph Frank , who died that year, was his brother-in-law. Count Johann Friedrich Wilhelm zu Ysenburg and Büdingen in Meerholz (ruled 1774–1802) participated in the legacy of Limpurg-Gaildorf through his mother Eleonore Juliane (1703–1762), daughter of the Count zu Solms-Rödelheim-Assenheim .

In 1790 he drew and published a map of the county of Ober-Isenburg. During his time in Meerholz, he also wrote his first major regional handbooks.

Professor in Erlangen

After ten years working in Meerholz and the publication of numerous papers, he was appointed full professor of philosophy and camera science in Erlangen in 1796 (appointed by King Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia on February 3, 1796, salary: 500 guilders per year); but he left after a year there.

Police director in Schwabach

From 1797 to 1808 Hoeck was police director ( Justizrath ) in Schwabach, Prussia from 1792-1806 . Among other things, he was responsible for overseeing the penal institution there. In 1806 Ansbach became Bavarian (Kingdom of Bavaria), in 1808 his position disappeared as part of an administrative reform. In the following years he was appointed finance advisor in Ansbach and Bamberg, before becoming a councilor in Würzburg in 1811 and later a state directorate.

Retired from 1817, he stayed in Nuremberg and Baiersdorf , but soon retired to Ansbach, where he also died.

“A man of tireless collecting diligence, versatile knowledge in all branches of economy and technology, and a practical sense for clear arrangement and comparison of especially statistical material, he has a rich literary activity, especially in the fields of agriculture and industry, state institutions and economic affairs Statistics unfolds without exerting a lasting influence on science. "

The Hoecksche House on the market square in Gaildorf

Hoeck and his three siblings sold their parents' house (in family ownership for three generations, his grandfather Johann Jacob had bought the house from Dorothea Wilhelmine Sophia von Waldeck-Pyrmont ) on March 15, 1813 , the Hoecksche Haus on the market square in Gaildorf. The buyer of the house with garden and summer house were the town of Gaildorf and the Oberamt , who wanted to set up a town hall and the town clerk's apartment there (purchase price: 4000 guilders). Until 1967 (move of the city administration to the new castle) the house was the seat of the city administration.

Fonts

  • Biographical and literary news from economists and cameraists . Casting 1784.
  • The constitution of the united Netherlands, described from authentic sources . Reiffenstein, Frankfurt am Main 1785.
  • Historical-statistical topography of the county of Oberisenburg with a map . Jägersche Buchhandlung, Frankfurt am Main 1790 ( digitized version ).
  • with Peter Adolph Winkopp : Magazine for history, statistics, literature and topography of all German spiritual states . Orell, Geßner, Füßli & Co., Zurich, Vol. 1, 1790 ( digitized version ). The second volume (1791) was edited by Peter Adolph Winkopp alone.
  • Materials on the history, statistics and topography of the German imperial counties . 3 volumes. Johann Gottlob Pech, Frankfurt am Main 1791–1792 ( Volume 1 , Volume 2 , Volume 3 ).
  • Economic treatise on pig breeding . Jägersche Buchhandlung, Frankfurt am Main 1792 ( digitized version ).
  • Statistical overview of the German states in terms of their size, population, products, industry and financial constitution . Decker, Basel 1800 ( digitized version ).
  • Attempt a literature of the game of chess . In: Aaron Reinganum: Ben-Oni or the defenses against the Gambit moves in chess, classified according to certain types . Hermann, Frankfurt am Main 1825, pp. 163–176 ( digitized version of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek).

literature

  • Hans König: Johann Daniel Albrecht Hoeck - A versatile scholar . In: Historischer Verein für Württembergisch Franken, Schwäbisch Hall (ed.): People from the Limpurger Land - Life Pictures from Five Centuries (= publications on local history and local history in Württembergisch Franken, Volume 16). Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar 1998, pp. 74-76.

Web links

Commons : Johann Daniel Albrecht Hoeck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Johann Daniel Albrecht Hoeck  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Ackermann: Debt, Reich Debit Management, Mediatization - A Study of the Financial Problems of the Inferior Estates in the Old Reich: The Example of the County of Ysenburg-Büdingen 1687–1806 Writings of the Hessian State Office for Historical Regional Studies 40, Marburg 2002, ISBN 3-921254-93 -0 , p. 85 fn. 332
  2. ^ Johann Georg Veit Engelhardt : The University of Erlangen from 1743–1843, On the Jubilee of the University in 1843 JJ Barfus, Erlangen 1843, p. 253 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ JDA Höck: Outline of the older and new police constitution in the Royal. Prussian principality Ansbach in: Magazin der Staatswirthschaft and Statistics, Industrie-Comptoir, Weimar 1797 p. 412 ff. Digitized
  4. ^ Karl Theodor von Inama-Sternegg: Hoeck, Johann Daniel Albrecht . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, published by the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Volume 12 (1880), p. 532, (Version of July 8, 2014, 11:56 UTC) Digital full-text edition in Wikisource
  5. ↑ Heike Krause: How the Höck house became the town hall . SW press of April 4, 2013 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Hoeck, Johann Daniel Albrecht
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Höck, JDA
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cameraman, statistician and police director
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1763
PLACE OF BIRTH Gaildorf
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1839
Place of death Ansbach