Joseph Leonhard Knoll

Joseph Leonhard Knoll (born November 6, 1775 in Grulich , Königgrätzer Kreis , † December 27, 1841 in Vienna ) was a Bohemian educator.

Life

Johann Leonhard Knoll was born the son of a teacher.

He received his first school lessons at home and later attended the secondary school in Schönberg and from 1790 to 1794 the grammar school in Leitomischl . Subsequently, he studied philosophy at the University of Vienna until 1797 and stayed at the house of Professor Franz von Zeiller , where the first greats of the Viennese teaching body met and gathered. During his philosophical studies he also studied the Bohemian, Italian and French languages. After completing his philosophical studies, he began studying medicine, which he gave up after a short time and then, under the influence of Franz von Zeiller, turned to a four-year study of law , which he finished in 1802.

Subsequently, he underwent the concours for the chair of history at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow and in 1806 received the professorship in universal history, where he also gave lectures in Greek philology for some time . When Krakow was integrated into the Duchy of Warsaw established by Napoleon Bonaparte , Joseph Leonhard Knoll traveled to Vienna with his wife, who had their son on this trip and who died shortly afterwards.

In November 1810 he became professor of world history at the Lyceum in Olomouc; from 1815 he administered the rectorate of the lyceum and in 1816 also presented Austrian history and, from 1825 on, ancillary historical sciences. In addition, there were occasionally lectures from classical literature and aesthetics. During his stay in Olomouc he founded the Olomouc poetry school.

When the Lyceum in Olomouc was upgraded to a university ( Palacký University Olomouc ) in 1827 , he received the doctorate in philosophy; In 1831 he became the first dean of his faculty. After the previous director of philosophical studies, Ferdinand Maria Chotek von Chotkow , was appointed bishop of the Tarnów diocese in Galicia , Joseph Leonhard Knoll was appointed head of this department.

In 1832 he was appointed professor of universal history at the Charles University in Prague , where he was made rector in 1836.

In 1838 he became professor of general world and Austrian history at the University of Vienna.

Joseph Leonhard Knoll was married and had a son:

• Albert Knoll (* unknown; † December 1843 in Vienna), doctor of medicine in Vienna

Memberships

Johann Leonhard Knoll was a member of the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences .

Fonts (selection)

• Thuiskan or the song of consecration . Brno 1816.
• The German eagles in Joseph von Hormayr's Archive for History . 1817.
• The schools of wisdom in Joseph von Hormayr's Archive for History . 1817.
• Central points of historical research and historiography in Bohemia and Moravia . Olomouc 1821.
• Flowers of poetry . Manuscript of the University Library Vienna, 1825.
• De imperatoris Caroli IV in perpoliendum gentis Bohemorum ingenium meritis . 1833.
• The Belt of the Earth in Joseph von Hormayr's Pocket Book for Patriotic History . 1847.
• The song to the three friends in paperback for patriotic history . 1847.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Knoll, Joseph Leonhard . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 12th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1864, pp. 159–161 ( digitized version ).
• Moravia: a sheet for entertainment, for the knowledge of the fatherland, of social and industrial progress , volume 5, v. March 7, 1842 No. 19, p. 73
• Knoll, Joseph Leonhard. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 447.