Johann Jakob Staffler

Johann Jakob Staffler (born December 8, 1783 in St. Leonhard in Passeier , † December 6, 1868 in Innsbruck ) was a Tyrolean lawyer and administrative officer. He created the first extensive topography of Tyrol and Vorarlberg .

Life

Staffler attended the Benedictine grammar school in Merano and then studied law in Innsbruck. Then he was successively district judge of the Passeier valley , Ried and Sonnenburg . From 1825 he was secretary in the Innsbruck governorate .

After a request from the Gubernium of Trieste for statistical material on Innsbruck, Staffler was commissioned to create a topography of Tyrol and Vorarlberg. The resulting extensive work contained a profound description of the country in addition to the figures .

In 1848 Staffler became a member of the Tyrolean state parliament .

Work (selection)

• The ducal county of Tyrol described historically, statistically and topographically; with a map of Tyrol, a plan of Innsbruck, and 4 views , Innsbruck 1827
• Tyrol and Vorarlberg statistical, topographical, with historical remarks in 2 parts , Innsbruck 1839 (digitized 1841, vol. 1) , (digitized 1844, vol. 2) , (digitized 1846, vol. 2, booklet 2) , register
• The German Tyrol and Vorarlberg, topographical, with historical remarks , in two volumes, Volume 1: Vorarlberg, Oberinnthal and Vinschgau, Unterinnthal and Wippthal , Innsbruck 1847, 974 pages ( E-Copy ).
• One hundred and one strange story from the wars of 1866 , Innsbruck: Vereinbuchhandlung 1867 ( digitized version )

literature

• M. Martischnig:  Staffler Johann Jakob. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5 , p. 79.
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Staffler, Johann Jacob . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 37th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1878, p. 86 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Friedrich Ratzel:  Staffler, Johann Jacob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, p. 382 f.
• Richard Staffler: Johann Jakob Staffler, the Tyrolean topographer. In: Der Schlern 1, 1920, pp. 183-185. (on-line)