Joseph Chmel
Joseph Chmel (born March 18, 1798 in Olomouc ; † November 28, 1858 in Vienna ) was an Austrian Augustinian chorister, archivist and historian .
Life
Chmel was the son of mathematician Adam Chmel . Chmel spent his school days in St. Florian and Kremsmünster . After graduating from high school, he joined the St. Florian monastery in the same year .
There he worked for some time as an assistant to various pastors; but then changed the area of responsibility. He became a monastery librarian and in 1834 he got a job as archivist at the Vienna State Archives .
There Chmel was promoted to first archivist after six years and in 1846 to deputy director. When the Academy of Sciences was founded in Vienna in 1847 , Chmel was one of the first members. He was soon asked to head the Academy's historical commission. In 1846 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . In the same year he became a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1857 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .
The Augustinian canon and historian Joseph Chmel died on November 28, 1858 in Vienna at the age of 60 and was buried in the Schmelzer cemetery .
In 1961, Chmelgasse in Vienna- Döbling (19th district) was named after him.
Works
- Contributions to the history of Emperor Friedrich IV. (1837)
- The manuscripts of the kk court library in Vienna (1840)
- The Austrian historian (1838–1841)
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Chmel, Joseph . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 2nd part. Publishing house of the typographic-literary-artistic establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1857, pp. 351–353 ( digitized version ).
- Adalbert Horawitz : Chmel, Joseph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, pp. 130-132.
- Engelbert Mühlbacher: The literary achievements of the St. Florian monastery up to the middle of the 19th century. Wagner, Innsbruck 1905.
- Walter Goldinger : Chmel, Joseph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 212 ( digitized version ).
- Chmel Josef. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 145.
- Christine Ottner: Joseph Chmel and Johann Friedrich Böhmer: The beginnings of the Regesta Imperii in the field of tension between friendship and science. In: Karel Hruza, Paul Herold (ed.): Ways to the certificate - Ways of the certificate - Ways of research. Contributions to European diplomacy in the Middle Ages. Böhlau, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-205-77271-7 ( Research on the history of the emperors and the popes in the Middle Ages. Vol. 24), pp. 259-293.
- Patrick Fiska: The Austrian pens as a pacemaker in Austrian historical research. In: Order news. Vol. 48 (2009), pp. 78-91.
Web links
- Literature by and about Joseph Chmel in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Members of the previous academies. Joseph Chmel. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on March 7, 2015 .
- ↑ Member entry of Joseph Chmel at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on January 15, 2017.
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 58.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chmel, Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian Augustinian canon and historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 18, 1798 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Olomouc |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 28, 1858 |
| Place of death | Vienna |