Joseph Milbiller

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Joseph Milbiller (born October 5, 1753 in Munich , † May 28, 1816 in Landshut ) was a German scholar, university professor , author and representative of the Catholic Enlightenment .

Life

Milbiller graduated from the Jesuit high school in Munich in 1770 (today Wilhelmsgymnasium Munich ) and from 1772 studied theology and law at the University of Ingolstadt. In 1778 he was ordained a priest. In the next few years he was active as a journalist in Munich and published a number of educational writings. In 1785 he had to leave Bavaria in connection with the persecution of the Illuminati . He then traveled to various university cities and in Halle , encouraged by the church historian Johann Salomo Semler , turned to history. A year later he was employed in Passau as a professor of fine sciences and history, but dismissed in 1794. He spent the next few years in Vienna , where he continued his historical research. In 1799 he was appointed professor of history at the University of Ingolstadt (later Landshut), where, in addition to German and European history, he also devoted himself to geography and statistics. In 1808 the Bavarian Academy of Sciences appointed him a corresponding member (historical class).

Works (selection)

  • News of monastery matters. o. O. 1777.
  • Sleigh ride in the land of the limping. Munich 1777.
  • Reading book for the youth of the more mature age. Munich 1778.
  • The viewer in Bavaria, a monthly publication. 4 years. Munich 1779–1782 (together with Karl Förg, Sebastian Rittershausen and Ignatz Schmid).
  • Munich political and learned newspaper Munich 1783–1785 (together with Ignatz Schmid).
  • The Catholic Folk Teacher, a periodical publication for the unstudied audience. 4 Ste. Nuremberg (Grattenauer) 1785.
  • Sincerus, the reformer. Frankfurt u. Leipzig 1787.
  • Pragmatic history of Hildebrandism, drawn from genuine and reliable sources, and set up by a Catholic clergyman to illuminate all dark regions in our German fatherland. 2 parts. Leipzig (Weygand) 1787.
  • Sketch of a systematic history of the German Empire. Leipzig (Weygand) 1787.
  • Legends from the history of the Middle Ages and modern times. Leipzig 1796.
  • General history of the most famous kingdoms and free states in and outside Europe. o. O. 1797-1804.
  • History of the Christian Religion and Church. 2 vols. Zurich (Orell and Geßner) 1792–1793.
  • History of Teutschland in the eighteenth century, an addendum to Risbek's history of the Teutschen. 2 parts. Zurich (Orell and Geßner) 1795.
  • Brief history of Bavaria for use in teaching in the royal. Bavarian high schools. Munich (Lindauer) 1806 ( e-copy ).
  • Handbook of Statistics of the European States. 2 vols. Landshut (Krüll) 1811.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vol., Munich 1970–1976; Vol. 3, p. 128.
  2. ↑ Geist und Gestalt, Biogr. Contributions z. Business d. Bayer. Akad. D. Knowledge Vol. 4.1, Munich 1963.

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SURNAME Milbiller, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Milbiller, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German scholar, publicist, university professor, enlightener
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1753
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1816
Place of death Landshut