Joseph Rudolf Schuegraf

Joseph Rudolf Schuegraf (born February 8, 1790 in Cham ; † October 28, 1861 in Regensburg ) worked as a dialect researcher and historian in Regensburg for half his life. There he did a lot to save historical files.

Josef Rudolph Schuegraf (1790–1861)

Cham, Schuegrafstr. 12: memorial plaque

Live and act

As a dialect researcher and linguist, as a historian, discoverer and custodian of important historical sources, Joseph Rudolf Schuegraf contributed significantly to the intensification of regional historiography in Regensburg. As a representative of the historical-romantic movement, he was one of the initiators for the completion of the Regensburg cathedral towers.

In Prüfening at the gates of Regensburg Schuegraf attended the convent school of the Benedictines and 1804 was a student at the High School of St. Paul in the city of Regensburg. He then attended the humanistic grammar school in Amberg , but did not complete the visit for health reasons and because of the economic situation of his father, a customs officer.

From 1808 Schuegraf worked as an official and tax clerk. In 1813 he joined the Bavarian army as a volunteer and was deployed as a lieutenant in the Bavarian troops in the Lower Inn Valley in Tyrol until 1814 . When the Bavarian army was downsized in 1823, Schuegraf retired as first lieutenant. His pension of 24 guilders was increased by 4 guilders because of an acquired disability. Attempts to get a job appropriate to his skills at archives in Munich failed. This was followed by a scientific teaching activity in Eschlkam , Cham and Bärnau . His historical writing dealt in particular with the local histories of the villages of the Bavarian Forest and the Upper Palatinate .

From 1827 Schuegraf took up his permanent residence in Regensburg and from then on devoted himself to the history of this city and the places in its vicinity with devotion and passion. In 1835 he wrote two important market chronicles about Wörth an der Donau . He began with the collection of discarded remnants of files from the former imperial city archive , the primate archives and the episcopal archives and the archives of the St. Emmeram, Ober- Mittel- and Niedermünster monasteries. The main sources of his extensive acquisitions of archival material were the large waste auctions in 1850/1. He had to subsequently buy up some archival material from privateers who had acquired these pieces because Schuegraf had to look after his terminally ill wife during the auction period. One of these particularly valuable files was a cathedral invoice from 1459. Schuegraf sold the majority of the files he had acquired after he had evaluated them.

From 1847/8 Schuegraf was the secretary of the historical association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg. His numerous publications appeared in the negotiations of the historical association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg , in magazines of other historical associations, in local newspapers or as special publications. With the help of the Historical Association in Regensburg, Schuegraf was also able to publish his extensive "History of Regensburg Cathedral and the associated buildings". Ten years earlier, Aloys Resch , a royal Bavarian civil servant and a part-time historian , who had also created a monograph on Regensburg Cathedral, had not succeeded in such a publication . The suggestions of Schuegraf, which were supported by the historical association and by King Ludwig I - even after he had abdicated - gave the impetus to the completion of the Regensburg Cathedral with the cathedral towers.

After 35 years of service in Regensburg, Schuegraf died in October 1861 and was buried in the Catholic St. Peter's Cemetery near today's St. Peter's Church. Because Schuegraf was without assets, the Historical Association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg had a simple tomb erected for him. A memorial plaque was attached to the house where he lived and where he died (Hunnenplatz No. 7). The house was demolished in 1964. A street in the Kumpfmühl district was named after him in honor of the important historian and local researcher .

Publications

Schuegraf left an extensive body of work, most of which appeared in the form of magazine articles. Schuegraf mainly published in the negotiations of the Historical Association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg , so that a significant part of Schuegraf's work emerges from this body:

Negotiations of the historical association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg (content of the volumes)

In it: Joseph Rudolph Schuegraf, History of the Regensburg Cathedral and the associated buildings. 2 parts, part 1 in: VHVO vol. 11 (1847) pp. 1–266, part 2 in: VHVO vol. 12 (1848) pp. 1–311.

In addition, there are other independently published titles u. a .:

Stauf and Walhalla. A historical attempt from documents and official sources, Regensburg 1834
1835: Two market chronicles about Wörth on the Danube
History of book printing in Regensburg, Regensburg 1840
Biographical news about the painter and citizen Michael Ostendorfer in Regensburg, 1850
Three invoices for the Regensburg cathedral construction from the years 1487, 1488 and 1489, 1857

literature

Hugo Graf v. Walderdorff: Joseph Rudolph Schuegraf. A picture of life. With news about the Austrian War of Succession and the French Wars In: Negotiations of the historical association of Upper Palatinate and Regensburg, Volume 27 (1871), pp. 125–438
Hugo von Walderdorff: Joseph Rudolph Schuegraf, the honored Bavarian historian. Mayr., Stadtamhof 1870. Digitized
Wolfgang Rappel: Schuegraf, Josef Rudolph. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 703 f. ( Digitized version ).
Josef Rudolph Schuegraf. 8.2.1790 - 28.10.1861. Exhibition by the Regensburg City Archives and the Historical Association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg (catalog), Regensburg 1990

Remarks

↑ His tomb has not been preserved. After 1890 she was a victim of the downsizing of the Catholic St. Peter's Cemetery when the station was rebuilt
↑ The buildings on Hunnenplatz on the Donaulände southeast of the Iron Bridge were in a poor structural condition after World War II. All the buildings were demolished in 1964 because the area was needed for transport projects that were then not implemented.

Web links

Wikisource: Joseph Rudolf Schuegraf - Sources and full texts

Joseph Rudolf Schuegraf House of Bavarian History: Biographies
List of publications according to the Bavarian Union Catalog

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c Karl Bauer: Regensburg Art, Culture and Everyday History . 6th edition. MZ-Buchverlag in H. Gietl Verlag & Publication Service GmbH, Regenstauf 2014, ISBN 978-3-86646-300-4 , p. 401 f .

personal data
SURNAME	Schuegraf, Joseph Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Historian and dialect researcher
DATE OF BIRTH	February 8, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH	On the mountain
DATE OF DEATH	October 28, 1861
Place of death	regensburg

[2] His tomb has not been preserved. After 1890 she was a victim of the downsizing of the Catholic St. Peter's Cemetery when the station was rebuilt

[3] The buildings on Hunnenplatz on the Donaulände southeast of the Iron Bridge were in a poor structural condition after World War II. All the buildings were demolished in 1964 because the area was needed for transport projects that were then not implemented.

[Bauer-1] A ^b ^c Karl Bauer: Regensburg Art, Culture and Everyday History . 6th edition. MZ-Buchverlag in H. Gietl Verlag & Publication Service GmbH, Regenstauf 2014, ISBN 978-3-86646-300-4 , p. 401 f .