Joseph Franz Xaver von Hoppenbichl

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Joseph Franz Xaver von Hoppenbichl (born July 23, 1721 in Burghausen , Electorate of Bavaria , † January 28, 1779 there ) was a Catholic clergyman and economist .

Life

Joseph Franz Xaver von Hoppenbichl was the eldest son of Johann Georg (von) Hoppenbichl (born January 27, 1686 in Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm , † 1747 in Burghausen), member of the government in Burghausen; Elevation to the nobility in 1740. His younger brother was the priest Casimir Georg Maria von Hoppenbichl (1733–1772).

He attended the Jesuit College (today: Kurfürst-Maximilian-Gymnasium Burghausen ), studied theology at the University of Ingolstadt and received his doctorate in Dr. theol.

He was a beneficiary in Rosenheim until he was in 1757 by Elector Maximilian III. Joseph was called to Munich as court chaplain ; from 1759 he was a beneficiary in Altötting .

In 1765 he founded a Society of Fine Sciences in Oettingen am Inn in Neuötting , a local academy that was initially supposed to practice language maintenance and the dissemination of science. Because the clergy and the Burghauser government it as an outgrowth of Freemasonry and heresy looked at was, at the suggestion of the doctor Johann Martin Strixner (1730-1786) and the Munich Hofkammerrats Franz Seraph Kohlenbrenner society 1767/1768 in the Confirmierte country Würth stem-Societät that first agricultural society of the electorate converted, which now in the sense of the Enlightenment for the promotion of trade, industry and agriculture, for better health care, and a reform of the education system, and endeavored to spread scientific knowledge.

In 1769 the company was re-established as the Churbaierische Agricultural Society in Altötting. The statutes were drawn up by the Bavarian Elector Maximilian III. Joseph approved. As a result, the number of members increased from 16 people to over 200. The office of President was held by Count von Törring-Gronsfeld from Winhöring , Vice President was Baron Leopold von Hartmann and Dr. Joseph Franz Xaver von Hoppenbichl director, the successors were Aloys Friedrich Wilhelm Hillesheim and Franz de Paula von cabinet . In 1772 the company moved to Burghausen. The activity of the company consisted of two meetings at which technical contributions were presented, which were then printed in the first place in the holding of a year, also enlightening scientific papers have been published, most recently in Baierisch-Economic householder , the first agricultural yearbook in Bavaria , found it to an agricultural calendar with advice on the most important tasks of the month, but above all treatises on management and economy. Other economic societies that were founded all over Europe at the same time orientated themselves on it . In 1778 the new sovereign Karl Theodor confirmed the Churpfalzbaierische Gesellschaft Morale- und Agricultural Sciences zu Burghausen . The society was formally dissolved in 1802 after it had fallen into disrepair, but was re-established as an agricultural association in 1810 and existed until 1933.

After the Jesuit order was abolished in 1773, he held the position of rector at the Burghauser Lyceum , which was run by the Cistercians from the Raitenhaslach monastery .

In 1777 he inherited the Fideikommisse upper and middle Offendorf .

He was appointed to the Secret Spiritual Council .

Writing

Joseph Franz Xaver Hoppenbichl wrote a number of sacred, biographical and genealogical works, but only some of them were printed.

Memberships

  • Director of the confirmed Landwürthschafts-Societät (also economic society ).
  • Member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Augsburg.
  • Member of the Royal Imperial Society of Agriculture in Tyrol .
  • Member of the Society of Sciences in Upper Lusatia .
  • Honorary member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences since 1776.

honors and awards

Fonts (selection)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Society of Beautiful Sciences - RegioWiki Niederbayern. Retrieved August 4, 2019 .
  2. Offendorf Castle - Altmühltal Nature Park. Retrieved August 4, 2019 .
  3. bavarikon | Bavaria's culture and knowledge. Retrieved August 4, 2019 .
  4. Person hit : Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Retrieved August 4, 2019 .
  5. Andreas and Ingrid Sauer: The street names of the city of Pfaffenhofen adIlm and its parts of the community. In: Pfaffenhofen town history (s). City of Pfaffenhof adIlm, December 2005, accessed on August 4, 2019 .
  6. Baierisch-economic householder or collected and increased writings of the Electoral Society of Moral and Agricultural Sciences in Burghausen . ( bsb-muenchen.de [accessed on August 4, 2019]).