Josef von Knorr (civil servant, 1782)

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Josef von Knorr, lithograph 1840

Josef von Knorr (born April 21, 1782 ; † December 21, 1839 in Vienna ) was an Austrian civil servant and landowner.

Life

Josef, Freiherr von Knorr, came from a family that had risen from a middle-class background, which in the 18th century already included a general , a Reichshofrat and a district administrator. He was a son of the same name baron Josef von Knorr (1746–1789), captain and Lower Austrian district administrator of the knighthood, from his marriage to Maria Theresia Edle von Kees (1748–1827). After the early death of her father, his mother married Count Johann Josef zu Stiebar -Buttenheim († 1825).

Like his father before him, Josef von Knorr attended the Theresian Knight Academy from 1797 to 1802 and then entered the civil service. He was an Imperial and Royal Councilor at the United Court Chancellery and is considered the father of the stable cadastre . In 1820 he acquired the Stiebar estate near Gresten in Lower Austria from his stepfather and had a 17 hectare nature park laid out. In 1834 Emperor Franz I was a guest there, who tried in vain to acquire the rule.

Knorr died in 1839 as an Imperial and Royal Councilor of State and Conference and a knight of the Royal Hungarian Order of St. Stephen and was buried in Gresten in a crypt chapel. The Castle Stiebar inherited by his three daughters from his marriage to Emilie Metz Castle (1807-1856). The eldest daughter was the poet Josefine von Knorr (1827–1908). After her childless death in 1908, Otto Graf Seefried inherited the castle, whose descendants still live there today.

literature

  • New Nekrolog der Deutschen, Volume 17, p. 1194
  • Eduard Maria Oettinger: Moniteur des dates: contenant un million de renseignements biographiques, généalogiques et historiques. Volume 3. Dresden: Oettinger, March 1867, p. 17
  • Theresianische Akademie, Max Freiherr von Gemmell-Flischbach: Album of the KK Theresianische Akademie (1746–1913): List of all members ... from the foundation ... to November 1, 1912, with brief biographical data, self-published by the editor, 1913, p. 35 and 87
  • Marie von Ebner Eschenbach, Josephine von Knorr. Correspondence 1851–1908. Edited by Ulrike Tanzer, Irene Fußl, Lina Maria Zangerl and Gabriele Radecke . Critical and annotated edition. 2 volumes (text and commentary). Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Knorr, Josef von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian civil servant and landowner
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1782
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1839
Place of death Vienna