Johann Schön (political scientist)

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Johann Schön (born November 26, 1802 in Langendorf in Moravia ; † March 13, 1839 in Breslau , Province of Silesia ) was an Austrian lawyer , political scientist and writer.

Life

Johann Schön was born the son of a vomit who also taught him for the first few years.

After the death of his mother, he initially attended the normal school in Olmütz and then the local grammar school with Professors Mathias Ludwig, Franz Brucker and Joseph Raudnitzky. In 1816 his father died, leaving him a small inheritance; his guardians ensured that he continued to attend grammar school until he moved to the Lyceum, later the Palacký University in Olomouc , in 1819 and took lessons from Professors Joseph Leonhard Knoll (1775–1841), Andreas Baumgärtner, Franz Ficker (1782–1849) , Joseph Wittgens and Thomas Joseph Povondra.

In 1822 he began studying law and political science at the University of Vienna and attended the lectures of Thomas Dolliner (1760–1839), Franz von Egger (1765–1851), v. Georg von Scheidlein , Wagner and Josef von Kudler ; During this time he was in close contact with Joseph von Hormayr , in whose archives for geography, history, state and war art he published from 1822 to 1828. Between 1825 and 1832 he worked for paperbacks, such as Fortuna , Homage to Women , paperback for the history of Moravia and Silesia and Joseph von Hormayr's paperback for patriotic history .

He finished his studies in 1826 and left Austria in 1827 to escape censorship as a free spirit. He traveled to Berlin via Dresden and Leipzig , where he met with the later Minister of Justice Heinrich Gottlob von Mühler , who offered him a legal career in Prussia . Johann Schön then traveled on to Saint Petersburg and stayed there for a few months with von Köhler and Friedrich von Adelung . He returned about Estonia , Livonia and Courland back to Prussia and became 1828 in Konigsberg a doctorate in law doctorate . He settled in Breslau as a lawyer, but on the advice of Ludwig Wachler , gave up his plan to work as a trainee lawyer in the Prussian judiciary, and instead sought an academic career.

Johann Schön received his doctorate in philosophy on March 2, 1829, and on June 17, 1829, he was employed as a private lecturer at the University of Breslau and lectured in the department of political science. In August 1831 he was promoted to associate professor and on December 14, 1836 to full professor. The lectures he held concerned politics, national economy , finance , general and Prussian statistics , history and statistics of modern civilization and the history of the Congress of Vienna .

In April 1836, in addition to his professorship, he succeeded Johann Gottlieb Kunisch as head of the editorial department of the Schlesische Zeitung . In the same year he also undertook a longer trip, which took him through southern Germany, Holland and Belgium to Paris , in order to observe the political developments in the individual countries and to compare them with the results of his research. For health reasons, however, he was unable to take any further trips.

Johann Schön was also active as a writer and already published poetic and historical works in Austria, but from 1829 only only writings on state politics. In 1829, 1833 and 1838 he defended four dissertations at the University of Breslau. He wrote essays and reviews in the Schlesische Provinzial-Blätter , the literary sheet of and for Silesia , the yearbooks of history and statecraft by Karl Heinrich Ludwig Pölitz , the archive for political economy and police science by Karl Heinrich Rau , the Berlin yearbooks for scientific studies Criticism , the writings in a colorful series by Theodor Mundt and the Schlesische Zeitung . During this time he also published several larger political works. His writings have been translated into both French and English.

In 1836 he became chairman of the association that organized the Schiller Festival in Breslau.

Freemasons

Johann Schön was a member of the existing Masonic Lodge in Breslau, " Friedrich of the Golden Scepter ".

Honors

For his work General History and Statistics of European Civilization , which appeared in 1833, he received a gold medal from the Paris Society for General Statistics.

Works (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Austrian Biographical Lexicon and Biographical Documentation: Schön, Johann. 2003, accessed February 20, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Constantin von Wurzbach : Schön, Johann . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 31st part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1876, pp. 112–115 ( digitized version ).
  3. ^ Karl Gabriel Nowack: Johann Schön: Eine biographische Mittheilung . Korn, 1839 ( google.de [accessed February 20, 2018]).
  4. ^ Gregor Wolny (Ed.): Paperback for the history of Moravia and Silesia . Brno 1827 ( google.de [accessed January 30, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Joseph von Hormayr (Ed.): Paperback for the fatherland history . Leipzig 1839 ( google.de [accessed January 30, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Fine, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schoen, Johann; Souls, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-Prussian lawyer, political scientist and author
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Langendorf
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1839
Place of death Wroclaw