Johann Thaurer von Gallenstein

Johann Nepomuk Thaurer Ritter von Gallenstein (born September 11, 1779 in Judenburg , † November 22, 1840 in Klagenfurt ) was an Austrian lawyer and writer. He wrote the national anthem of Carinthia , the Carinthian Heimatlied .

Life

Gallstone studied in Graz Jus . He married Josephine von Stari in 1807. He then worked as administrator of the dominions Wiesenau and Payerhofen in Lavanttal , which were owned by his family. At the same time he became legal counsel in Wolfsberg . In 1820 he took up the post of permanent expedition and registry director in Klagenfurt. He died in Klagenfurt in 1840. His son Meinrad Thaurer von Gallenstein was a well-known Benedictine monk and naturalist.

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Gallenstein's best-known work is the poem “Da, wo Tirol borders on Salzburg”, which appeared in the magazine “ Carinthia ” on November 2, 1822 and whose first three stanzas now form the first three stanzas of the Carinthian Heimatlied. The fourth stanza was not included in the anthem and reads:

And the Kaiseraar spreads his wings over Austria's house
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Then too, uncovered by enemies,
His winged pair Karenta covers;
And Francis's hand stretches out
over you, my fatherland!

In his poetry, the history of Carinthia is often the subject, as in his romantic-historical stories: 14 of 20 ballads and 22 of 33 stories deal with this topic. They were mainly published in the "Carinthia" and in the "Kärntnerische Monatsschrift". Characteristic of the stories is a flowery prose, pure morality and a fiery love of the country. The theme and technique of the stories are, however, fairly uniform. Numerous stories take place in the 13th century. This includes the story "Duke Bernhard and his court", which depicts the heyday of Carinthia under Bernhard von Spanheim .

Gallenstein's dramas have been classified as romantic-historical. The piece “The Siege of St. Veit in 1442” dates from 1826 and “Emperor Karl V in Villach” from 1829.

literature

• W. Deuer: Thaurer von Gallenstein, Johann Nepomuk Ritter. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 14, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2012–, ISBN 978-3-7001-7312-0 , p. 213.
• Erich Nussbaumer: Spiritual Carinthia. Literary and intellectual history of the country . Verlag Ferd. Kleinmayr, Klagenfurt 1956, pp. 324-330.
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Thaurer Ritter von Gallenstein, Johann . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 44th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1882, p. 181 f. ( Digitized version ).