Johann Ferdinand Huschberg

Johann Ferdinand Huschberg (born March 12, 1792 in Düsseldorf , † August 20, 1852 in Würzburg ) was a German archivist , historian and playwright .

Live and act

Johann Ferdinand Huschberg was born as the son of the Jülich-Bergischer Hofbaumeister and later Bavarian civil servant and building director Kaspar Huschberger . In 1806 his family moved from Düsseldorf to Munich. In 1810, Huschberg graduated from high school in Munich with distinction. He then studied law and history at the Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen . Two years later he received his doctorate. phil. From 1813 to 1815 Huschberg took part in the Wars of Liberation as a lieutenant in the 4th Infantry Regiment , and later as a first lieutenant . In 1819 he became an accessist and worked, among other things, in the Bavarian Reich Archives . Ten years later he became secretary and second assistant there . At that time he worked on an extensive presentation of the family of the Counts of Ortenburg . From 1830 to 1834 he was honorary professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In the meantime he worked on an extensive work on the early history of the Wittelsbach family . A year later, in recognition of his historical works, he was made an extraordinary member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1839 he became director of the Würzburg district archive . Because of his services he was given the rank of royal. Government Council raised.

Huschberg's estate is now at the Bibliotheca Albertina in Leipzig . The estate once came to the historian and Leipzig professor Heinrich Wuttke , who published some parts of it. In March 1884, Wuttke's widow gave the estate to the Bibliotheca Albertina.

Works (selection)

• Hannibal (Augsburg, 1829).
• Johanna d'Arc zu Rouen (Augsburg, 1826).
• History of the ducal-counts general house Ortenburg (Sulzbach, 1828, digitized ).
• The oldest history of the Schiegen-Wittelsbach family up to the extinction of the Graefl. Schieren-Valai line (Munich, 1834, digitized , digitized ).
• History of the Alemanni and Franks up to the establishment of the Franconian monarchy by King Clovis (Sulzbach, 1840, digitized ).
• The three war years 1756, 1757, 1758 in Germany. Edited from the estate of Johann Ferdinand Huschberg with additions. by Heinrich Wuttke. After previously unused archives. (Leipzig, 1856, posthumously , digitized ).
• The noble family of the Zenger . In: Negotiations of the historical association for Lower Bavaria , Volume 37, Landshut 1901, pp. 1–88 (posthumously).

literature

• Bruno Jahn: Great Bavarian Biographical Encyclopedia , Walter de Gruyter Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-11-097344-0 , p. 930.
• Detlef Döring : Catalog of the Manuscripts of the University of Leipzig, New Series, Volume I: The Modern Manuscripts of the Zero Group - Part 3 (MS0601-01200) , Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-447-04754-2 , p. 26.
• Rainer Albert Müller : Huschberg, Johann Ferdinand, historian. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 380 ( digitized version ).
• Johann August Ritter von Eisenhart :  Huschberg, Johann Ferdinand von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, p. 449.
• Adolph von Schaden : Scholars Munich in 1834 , Munich 1834, p. 48 ( digitized in the Google book search).

Web links

• Literature by and about Johann Ferdinand Huschberg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by Huschberg in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In 1815 Huschberg still had the family name Huschberger . - See the Royal Bavarian Government Gazette . November 1, 1815, p. 892 ( Google Books )
2. ^ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 volumes, Munich 1970–1976; Volume 3, p. 234; there as in the relevant annual report: Huschberger .