Joseph August von Toerring
Joseph August Graf von Toerring (born December 1, 1753 in Munich ; † April 9, 1826 in Munich) was a Bavarian politician and playwright and lord of the former Reichsabbey Gutenzell ( Cistercian women ) to Gutenzell , on Jettenbach and others.
Life
He was the second son of August Josef von Toerring (1728–1802) and Countess Maria Elisabeth born. Freiin von Lerchenfeld .
The politician Toerring was court chamber councilor and real privy councilor , minister of state and president of the council of state . He was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and was considered a patron of the arts and sciences. As a poet of chivalric dramas, he was known in Bavaria and Austria for patriotic plays. In 1794 he dedicated the lion monument near Bad Abbach to Elector Karl Theodor . From 1799 to 1801 Toerring was the first president of the General Directorate, an authority responsible for the administration of Upper and Lower Bavaria. In this office he was succeeded by his previous deputy Joseph Maria von Weichs .
He was enrolled in the Count's class in the Kingdom of Bavaria on March 18, 1809, and he was raised to the status of the Hereditary Imperial Council of Bavaria on May 26, 1818.
tomb
The tomb of Joseph Toerring is on the old southern cemetery in Munich (wall right place at 261/266 burial ground 14) location . The sarcophagus and sculpture are by Franz Jakob Schwanthaler .
Works (selection)
- Agnes Bernauerinn . A patriotic tragedy in 5 acts (1780); Cologne and Leipzig 1790 ( full text ).
- Kaspar the Thorringer. Play in five acts (written in 1779). Leipzig and Vienna 1785 ( full text ); 2nd edition: Klagenfurt 1792 ( full text ).
literature
- Arnold, Alice: Josef August Graf von Törring . In: Wurst, Jürgen and Langheiter, Alexander (Ed.): Monachia. Munich: Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, 2005. P. 66. ISBN 3-88645-156-9
- Jolanda Englbrecht: Three roses for Bavaria - the Counts of Toerring from the beginning until today , Pfaffenhofen 1985 ( ISBN 3-778-73264-1 )
- Otto Brahm : The German knight drama of the eighteenth century. Studies on Joseph August von Törring, his predecessors and successors . Trübner, Strasbourg 1880
- Adolf Hauffen : Törring, Josef August Graf von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 38, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, pp. 458-461.
Web links
- Literature by and about Joseph August von Toerring in the catalog of the German National Library
- Josef August von Törring in the online catalog of the Bavarian Library Association
- Works by Joseph August von Toerring at Zeno.org .
- Joseph August von Toerring in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History
Individual evidence
- ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XIV, page 473, Volume 131 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2003, ISSN 0435-2408
- ^ Karl Goedeke , Edmund Goetze: Outline of the history of German poetry from the sources. 2nd Edition. Ehlermann, Leipzig 1893, vol. 5, p. 262 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Toerring, Joseph August von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Toerring-Gronsfeld, Joseph August von; Törring |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bavarian politician and playwright |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 1, 1753 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 9, 1826 |
| Place of death | Munich |