Joseph von Kirschbaum

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Joseph von Kirschbaum, painted by Joseph Hauber

Joseph von Kirschbaum (born June 22, 1758 in Heidelberg , † October 7, 1848 in Munich ) was a lawyer, professor of law and court master or educator of the future King Ludwig I of Bavaria .

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He was born the son of Johann Jakob Joseph Kirschbaum (1721–1804), full professor of law at the University of Heidelberg and his wife Maria Johanna Antonia geb. Hennemann († 1766).

After studying in Heidelberg and Göttingen , Kirschbaum went to France, where he taught constitutional law as a professor at the royal war school in Vendôme . As a result of the French Revolution , he returned home.

Auguste Wilhelmine von Hessen-Darmstadt , the wife of Count Palatine Maximilian Joseph von Zweibrücken , who later became King Max I Joseph of Bavaria, chose Joseph von Kirschbaum as the tutor and court master of her first-born son Ludwig (later King Ludwig I of Bavaria) in 1793. At the same time worked with him a religious educator, the Catholic priest Joseph Anton Sambuga (1752–1815) and the court councilor Louise Weyland (1758–1837), who was intimate with the family . The clergyman Sambuga had been appointed co-educator at Kirschbaum's suggestion.

Joseph von Kirschbaum remained at the prince's side as an educator and advisor for 12 years and enjoyed his respectful trust until the end of his life. In 1802 he accompanied him to a study visit to Göttingen , and in 1805 to Italy. In addition, Kirschbaum was a great art collector and art lover, which was in line with the inclinations of his pupil. His collection of 611 paintings, 483 drawings, 3,000 copperplate engravings and 241 other antiques was auctioned from the inheritance in Munich in 1851. King Ludwig I acquired a portrait of his tutor, painted by Joseph Hauber .

Kirschbaum was a knight of the order of the Palatinate Lion , was a privy councilor in 1799 , a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in 1807 and raised to hereditary nobility in 1814 . According to the obituary, he wore the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown at the end of his life and was a Bavarian State Councilor . His brother Anton Maria Joseph Nepomuk Kirschbaum (1775-1853), in whose name the obituary also appeared, was a Bavarian lieutenant general . His grandson Major General Maximilian von Kirschbaum (1862-1916) served in the First World War as commander of the 6th Bavarian Infantry Division .

literature

  • Hubert Glaser: Crown and Constitution - King Max I. Joseph and the new state , catalog for the exhibition in the Völkerkundemuseum Munich, 1980, Piper Co. Verlag, Munich, 1980, ISBN 3-492-02627-3 , p. 540 u. 541
  • New Nekrolog der Deutschen , Volume 27, 1849, Volume 1, p. 30, Weimar, 1851; (Digital scan)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ludwig Hüttl: Darwin's garden: life and discoveries of the natural scientist Charles Darwin and modern biology , Piper Verlag GmbH, 1986, p. 11, ISBN 3492052134 ; (Detail scan)
  2. ^ Johann Michael Sailer : Joseph Anton Sambuga - as he was , Munich, 1816, p. 57; (Digital scan)
  3. ↑ Bayerisches Volksblatt , Regensburg, page 194 of the 1851 volume; (Digital scan)
  4. ↑ Münchner Intellektivenblatt , Munich, 1823, column 93 of the year 1799; (Digital scan)
  5. ↑ Entry in the portal of the academy
  6. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German Adels-Lexicon , Volume 5, p. 115, Leipzig, 1864; (Digital scan)
  7. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung München , page 4594 of the 1848 volume; (Digital scan)
  8. ^ Biographical website on General Anton Maria Joseph Nepomuk Kirschbaum
  9. ^ Biographical website on General Maximilian von Kirschbaum
  10. ↑ Genealogical website for the Kirschbaum family
personal data
SURNAME Kirschbaum, Joseph von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kirschbaum, Joseph Franz Anton von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jurist, court master, educator of King Ludwig I of Bavaria
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1758
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 1848
Place of death Munich