Joseph Anton of Mussinan

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Joseph Anton Mussinan , Imperial Knight of Mussinan since 1792 (born December 13, 1766 in Viechtach , Lower Bavaria , † May 24, 1837 in Munich ) was a Bavarian lawyer and civil servant who also made a name for himself as a historical writer.

Mussinan was born the son of a baker in Viechtach in 1766. After graduating from the (today's) Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich in 1784 and studying law and philosophy , he first worked at the Viechtach regional court, then in 1789 as a member of the government in Burghausen . During the imperial vicariate in 1792 he was at the age of 26 years in the kingdom knighthood raised.

In 1799 he was transferred to Landshut as a councilor for three years until he became court judge in Straubing in 1802 . His promotion to the appellate judge in 1808 was followed by a career change in the finance sector in 1813, where in 1817 he was appointed finance ministerial advisor to the general tax office. After its dissolution, he returned to his original field of activity in 1826 as director of the Landshut Court of Appeal. After retiring in 1830, he became a member of the Bavarian State Parliament in 1831. In 1834 he received the title of privy councilor .

Outside of his professional career, Mussinan worked as a historical writer. In 1810 he was elected as a corresponding member of the historical class of the Royal Bavarian Academy . In March of the previous year he had sent his unprinted writings to the Bavarian Ministry under the direction of Maximilian von Montgelas . Montgelas thereupon arranged for these works to be passed on to the Academy, with the order "to dutifully appreciate their salary and to indicate with a report what expectations the author of the works, who gloriously devotes his free time to the study of history, entitled to after these works" . As requested, the Academy's report was positive. In a letter dated July 20, 1810, he received a golden token (at that time, tokens were issued to the members as a kind of remuneration for attending the meetings), and the appointment as a corresponding member followed in August. Mussinan had already made first contacts with the Academy in the years before joining. His manuscript Campaign of the French Rhine Army through Baiern 1800. A contribution to the history of the French war, written by the Electoral Councilor of Landshut Joseph von Mußinan in 1802 , was received with applause by the Academy. In the election as a full member on January 5, 1818, he failed.

In 1811 he gave the city of Straubing the book Ueber das Schicksal Straubing and the Baierischen Wald during the Thirty Years' War from October 1633 to April 1634 , which then made him an honorary citizen and in 1813 brought about its publication. In 1829 the city of Landshut received the same honor. Viechtach, his hometown, named a street in Mussinanstrasse in his honor .

Works

  • 1809: Contributions to the history of the Swedish War in Bavaria
  • 1811: Ludwig der Baier and 1809
  • 1811: About the fate of Straubing and the Bavarian forest during the Thirty Years War from October 1633 to April 1634
  • 1814: Fortification and siege of the Bavarian capital Straubing in 1633, 1704 and 1742
  • 1817: History of the Löwler Bund under the Bavarian Duke Albert IV from 1488 to 1495
  • 1820: History of the ducal Lower Baier line Straubing-Holland
  • 1821: Life story of the quiesced royal Bavarian judge Ignaz von Schmidbauer zu Viechtach in the Lower Danube district
  • 1822–29: History of the French wars in Germany, especially on Bavarian soil in the years 1796, 1800, 1805 and 1809 in 4 parts.
  • 1829: Signpost to the old ducal-Bavarian castle Trausnitz in Landshut
  • 1831: Historical overview and presentation of the Bavarian state debt system in connection with special considerations about the debt budget and the draft law for the III. Financial period 1831-37
  • 1832: Overview of the resolutions passed by the estates of the Kingdom of Bavaria in the Landtag in 1831 for the benefit of the whole nation and approved by the royal government
  • 1835: Bavaria's legislation
  • 1836: About the Art Association of the Kingdom of Bavaria, which has existed since 1824, with a special look back at the earlier painting exhibitions that took place in Munich in 1788 and 1789

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leitschuh, Max: The matriculation of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich. 4 vols., Munich 1970–1976; Vol. 3, p. 174
  2. ↑ Alexander Ecker: Law and legal history in the Bavarian Academy of Sciences from 1759 to 1827. Diss. University of Regensburg, p. 153
personal data
SURNAME Mussinan, Joseph Anton von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mussinan, Joseph Anton Ritter von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1766
PLACE OF BIRTH Viechtach , Lower Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1837
Place of death Munich