Josef Egger (historian)

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Josef Egger (born August 16, 1839 in St. Pankraz im Ultental , † August 19, 1903 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian historian and the author of a history of Tyrol .

Josef Egger

His parents, the innkeeper and timber merchant Matthäus Egger and his wife Antonia Pardatscher, left the boy in the care of relatives in Innsbruck at an early age, where he attended elementary school and later high school. After graduation, Egger studied German studies and history at Innsbruck University with Professors Ignaz Zingerle , Julius von Ficker and Alfons Huber . He was a member of the striking student union Academic Choral Society . He later entered the school service. After several years of probation, he became a professor at the Innsbruck grammar school in 1869.

The teacher, who is very popular with his students, was particularly interested in the history of his closer home. As the librarian of the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum , he was able to access the rich library and document holdings of this institution at any time, so that he could draw a very lively and detailed picture of Tyrolean history. What he created in this area, he published partly in school programs and partly in historical journals. He published a lot in the form of independent works, especially his history of Tyrol , which had become popular in three volumes, which appeared in the Wagnerische Universitätsbuchhandlung from 1872–1880. At that time, Egger's history of Tyrol was the first significant work to cover all of the country's historical epochs. It is still quoted today in almost all important historical works.

Egger wrote the volume Tyrol and Vorarlberg for the collection The Peoples of Austria-Hungary published by Helfert and wrote the chapter on Tyrol for the work The Austrian Monarchy in Words and Pictures , which was initiated by Crown Prince Rudolf . With Zingerle he published the fourth volume of the Tyrolean Weistümer , which includes the Burggrafenamt, the Etsch, Eisack and Pustertal valleys.

Egger was a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna and the Historical Society in Berlin. The emperor honored his services by awarding him the Golden Cross of Merit with the crown and conferring the title of government councilor on him.

The lawyer and legal historian Hans von Voltelini judged his life's work: “It's amazing what Egger has achieved scientifically alongside his strenuous professional work. ... Almost everywhere he had to build from the ground up and draw on the state of the sources from documents and files. No wonder if there was a risk of delivering dry extracts, which he has not always escaped. But all in all, Egger's history of Tyrol has rightly been praised as one of the best German regional stories. "

Josef Egger was married. His wife Luise, née von Troyer, gave birth to 7 children, two of whom died shortly after the birth.

Fonts (selection)

  • The oldest historians in Tyrol. In: Annual report of the kk Ober-Realschule in Innsbruck. 1866/1867, ZDB -ID 1298569-7 , pp. 3–62, digital copy , (special reprint as: The oldest historians, geographers and antiquarians of Tyrol. Wagner, Innsbruck 1867, digital copy ).
  • History of Duke Leopold III. In: Annual report of the kk Ober-Realschule in Innsbruck. 1869, pp. 3-94.
  • The history of Tyrol. From the earliest times to modern times. 3 volumes. Wagner, Innsbruck 1872, 1876, 1880, digitized volume 1 , digitized volume 2 , digitized volume 3 .
  • The influence of the old Tyrolean estates on legislation. In: Program of the Kaiser. royal State high school in Innsbruck. 24, 1873, ZDB -ID 916048-6 , pp. 25-37, digitized .
  • The development of the old Tyrolean landscape. A sketch. In: Program of the kk Staats-Gymnasium in Innsbruck. 27, 1876, pp. 3-25.
  • The Tyroleans and Vorarlbergers. (= The peoples of Austria-Hungary. Ethnographic and cultural-historical descriptions. Vol. 4, ZDB -ID 1305122-2 ). Prochaska, Vienna et al. 1882.
  • Bishop Heinrich II. Of Trient (1274–1289), especially his quarrel with Meinhard II. Count of Tyrol since 1254 and Duke of Carinthia since 1286. In: Program of the kk Staatsgymnasium in Innsbruck. 35, 1884, pp. 3-39, digitized ; 36, 1885, pp. 3-42, digitized .
  • as editor with Ignaz von Zingerle : The Tyrolean Weisthümer. Part 4, half 1: Burgraviato and Etschland (= Österreichische Weisthümer. Vol. 5, ZDB -ID 530157-9 ). Braumüller et al., Vienna et al. 1888.
  • The emergence of the judicial districts of German Tyrol. In: Communications from the Institute for Austrian Historical Research . Supplementary volume. 4, 1893, pp. 373-428, digitized .
  • The aribone house. In: Archives for Austrian History . Vol. 83, 1897, pp. 385-525.
  • The old names of the villages, communities and their subdivisions, as well as the names of the courts and tribunals of the same name in Tyrol. In: Journal of the Ferdinandeum for Tyrol and Vorarlberg. Episode 3, Issue 41, 1897, ZDB -ID 510446-4 , pp. 217-277, digitized .
  • Castle Gerrenstein and his masters. In: Journal of the Ferdinandeum for Tyrol and Vorarlberg. Volume 3, Issue 42, 1898, pp. 47–116, digitized .
  • The barbarian incursions into the province of Raetia and their occupation by barbarians. In: Archives for Austrian History. Vol. 90, 1901, pp. 77-232, digitized , 321-400, digitized .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Albin Kulhanek: Chronicle of the AGV 1863-1906 . S. 52 .
  2. ↑ Tiroler Ehrenkranz, p. 184
personal data
SURNAME Egger, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Pankraz , Ultental
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 1903
Place of death innsbruck