Joseph Fuos

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Joseph Fuos , also Joseph Fues or Joseph Fuoss (born July 6, 1739 in Krum-Schiltach ; died April 24, 1805 in presumably Ebersbach an der Fils ) was a German writer , Lutheran military pastor and memoirist of Sardinia in the eighteenth century .

Fuos is considered to be the initiator of travel literature in Sardinia and wrote the book News from Sardinia, on the current state of the island , which appeared anonymously in Leipzig in 1780 in the form of a collection of thirteen letters to an anonymous baron.

The attribution to Joseph Fuos is not yet entirely certain.

Works

  • Anonymous, news from Sardinia, about the current state of this island , Leipzig, Siegfried Lebrecht Crusius, 1780.
  • Joseph Fuos, La Sardegna nel 1773-1766 descritta da un contemporaneo , translation and preface by Pasquale Gastaldi Millelire, Cagliari, La Piccola Rivista, 1899.
  • Joseph Fuos, Notes dalla Sardegna: 1773-1976 , foreword and notes by Giulio Angioni , Nuoro, Ilisso, Bibliotheca sarda, 2000, ISBN 88-87825-11-4 .

literature

  • A. Lecca, Notebook etnografiche sulla Sardegna del 1700 nell'epistolario di Joseph Fuos , in " Lares ", XLVI, n. 2, Florence, Olschki, 1980
  • Viaggiatori in Sardegna , foreword by Antonio Romagnino, 3 vols., Cagliari, Demos, 1997
  • Foreword and notes by Giulio Angioni in Joseph Fuos, Note dalla Sardegna: 1773-1976 , Nuoro, Ilisso, Bibliotheca sarda, 2000, ISBN 88-87825-11-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Württembergische Kirchengeschichte Online (archive central library of the regional church): Fuoss, Joseph
personal data
SURNAME Fuos, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fues, Joseph; Fuoss, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, Lutheran military pastor and memoirist of Sardinia
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1739
PLACE OF BIRTH Krum-Schiltach
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1805
Place of death uncertain: Ebersbach an der Fils