Joseph von Sterneck and Ehrenstein

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Joseph Daublebsky Freiherr von Sterneck and Ehrenstein shortened also Joseph von Sterneck and Ehrenstein (* May 1 or May 2, 1775 in Prague / Austrian Empire ; † April 29 or May 1, 1848 in Klagenfurt ) was an Austrian civil servant from the Daublebsky family from Sterneck . From 1834 he was provincial governor of Carinthia, as well as president of the inner-Austrian and coastal appellate and higher criminal courts in Klagenfurt.

origin

Joseph Daublebsky Freiherr von Sterneck and Ehrenstein came from a patrician family from Budweis in southern Bohemia who had been mayors of the city for generations (see Daublebsky von Sterneck ).

Life

He was born on May 1 or 2, 1775, the son of Doctor of Laws Jakob Ignaz Eusebius Daublebsky von Sterneck (1748–1826), baron since 1792. He was the real councilor of the Gubernium and chamber procurator in Moravia and Silesia from 1795 to 1817 and received numerous awards during his career. In 1786, he was elevated to the knighthood by Emperor Joseph II , in 1792 he was raised to the imperial and Bavarian baron by imperial vicar Karl Theodor with the title of Ehrenstein and in 1807 he was finally raised to the imperial Austrian baron by Emperor Franz II . (HRR) .

Joseph had the brother Karl Daublebsky Freiherr von Sterneck and Ehrenstein (* September 4, 1779, † May 1, 1857), most recently court advisor at the Court of Appeal in Brno , originator of the Moravian and Silesian court organization of the time.

Career

After completing high school in Prague and at the Lyceum in Olomouc , Joseph Daublebský von Sterneck became a law student at the Karl Ferdinand University in Prague. He began his professional career in the spring of 1795 as a consultant at the regional court in Brno and as a court recorder at the regional court in Krakow . On July 13, 1802 he was appointed secretary at the Kraków Regional Court and one day later married Anna Levinský von Levin (1775-1812), a daughter of the Vice-President of the West Galician Court of Appeal Adalbert Wenzel Levinský von Levin. On January 30, 1805, he was appointed district administrator in Cracow and in 1810 he was transferred to Lemberg (until February 1815). In 1811 his second son Joseph Wenzel died in Lemberg and his wife Anna died a year later. In 1815 Joseph Daublebský came from Sterneck to Klagenfurt in Carinthia ; he had been assigned to the appellate court in Inner Austria as an appeal judge. In 1817 he married his second wife Franziska Freiin von Kaiserstein (1790–1862), the second daughter of Johann-Nepomuk Philipp Freiherr von Kaiserstein, who owned lands (e.g. Tentschach Castle ) in Carinthia as the owner of the entails .

On August 16, 1817 he received a warning from the Supreme Judicial Office in Vienna in which he was accused of carelessness and superficial official reports . In response, Joseph Daublebský von Sterneck sent a total of 558 written reports of his activities during his service in Klagenfurt to Vienna. Then in 1817 he was transferred to the coastal appeal court in Fiume in Istria , and in 1820 he was transferred back to Klagenfurt. On June 30, 1821, the then governor Joseph Camillo Freiherr von Schmidburg awarded him the state estate in the Duchy of Carinthia . Two years later, in 1823, he was by Emperor Franz President of the City and the District Court of Ljubljana and the criminal Merkantil- and exchange Court in Krain appointed. In recognition of his services in this activity, the Emperor awarded him the Landmannschaft in the Duchy of Carniola and the Windische Mark on April 2, 1825 .

After the death of Aloys Ritter von Thinnfeld on October 30, 1827, Joseph Daublebsky von Sterneck succeeded him as president of the criminal and change court in Klagenfurt. In 1834, after the death of Hieronymus Graf von Platz , Freiherr von Thurn (1777-1834), he was appointed President of the Inner Austrian and Coastal Appeals and Criminal Higher Courts in Klagenfurt and appointed Governor of Carinthia . In this function he was one of the initiators for the establishment of the Kärntner Sparkasse and from 1835 to 1847 its president. Joseph Daublebský Freiherr von Sterneck wrote numerous legal books, the publication of which was mostly not carried out due to the censorship at the time . He was a promoter of music and theater in Klagenfurt.

estate

Joseph Daublebský Freiherr von Sterneck and Ehrenstein died on April 29 or May 1, 1848 at the age of 73 in Klagenfurt. He left about 40 volumes of handwritten bequests that have been preserved in the family's private archives to this day. The documents were written in German, Czech, Polish, French, Italian, English, Latin and ancient Greek.

Joseph Daublebský Freiherr von Sterneck and Ehrenstein was the father of Maximilian Daublebsky von Sterneck (1829-1897), admiral and commander of the Austro-Hungarian Navy.

literature

source

  • Bulletin of the History Association for Carinthia, first half of 2015

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Constantin von Wurzbach : Sterneck-Daublebsky zu Ehrenstein, the barons, genealogy . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 38th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1879, p. 297 f. ( Digitized version ), accessed March 19, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Sterneck and Ehrenstein, Joseph von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Daublebsky Freiherr von Sterneck and Ehrenstein, Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Governor of Carinthia
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1775
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1848 or May 1, 1848
Place of death Klagenfurt