Judas Thaddäus Zauner

Memorial plaque in Salzburg

Judas Thaddäus Zauner (also J. Thaddäus Zauner ; born October 16, 1750 in Zaun , Obertrum am See , † May 10, 1813 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian legal scholar , historian and university professor .

Life

Zauner was the son of poor farmers. The gifted child was able to obtain a higher education through a relative. In May 1764 he was accepted at the Salzburg grammar school . His progress moved the Prince Archbishop Sigismund III. To support Christoph von Schrattenbach financially the young Zauner. In 1770 he graduated from high school and turned to university studies. After studying philosophy and mathematics , he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . At first he pursued the plan to become a priest . He passed the entrance exam in Passau very well, but was rejected due to his small height (probably only 150 cm).

Zauner returned to Salzburg, where he devoted himself to studying law. During this time he served as a private tutor in the house of the history professor Johann Philipp Stainhauser . This aroused his interest in history. In 1779 he received a licentiate in both rights . In the same year he became a consistorial and court judge advocate in Salzburg and an imperial public notary . On March 30, 1787 he became a member of the Moral and Agricultural Society in Burghausen and on March 21, 1801, a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Zauner took in 1803 a reputation as a professor of the rights to the Salzburg University at. At the same time he was promoted to Dr. iur. PhD. He received the title of court counselor and in 1805 he was appointed real court war counselor, and after the change of rule on September 30, 1808, he was appointed district administrator. When the university was converted into a lyceum in 1810 , he lost his professorship. April 18, 1811, again under Bavarian rule, he was once again court advisor and professor of history at the local lyceum and head of the Salzburg university library . From 1812 he also taught Latin philology.

Zauner died in 1815 of a nervous fever .

Works (selection)

• Result of the Emser Congress signed by the four German Archbishops , Frankfurt and Leipzig in 1787.
• Judas Thaddäus Zauner's biographical messages from the Salzburg law teachers from the foundation of the university to the present day , orphanage, Salzburg 1789.
• On the dishonest conduct of the enemies of the Enlightenment , Mayr, Salzburg 1791.
• On collegial rights in the Catholic Church: A fragment on the latest canon law scholarship , Vienna 1793.
• Doubts for and against the exemption of the Archbishopric of Salzburg from the Electoral Palatinate Imperial Vicariate Sprengel , Mayr, Salzburg 1794.
• Chronicle of Salzburg , 7 volumes, Duyle, Salzburg 1796–1813.
• Contributions to the history of the stay of the French in Salzburg and the surrounding areas. Several parts in three volumes, Mayr, Salzburg 1801–1803.
• Historical overview of the Lorraine-Austrian ore house: As an introduction to the knowledge of the now ruling Kurhaus in Salzburg , Zaunrith, Salzburg 1803.
• List of all academic professors in Salzburg from 1728 until the university was abolished: published with brief news about their lives and writings , Mayr, Salzburg 1813.
• Kurtzer draft of Latin literature , Mayr, Salzburg 1815.

literature

• Klemens Alois Baader : Lexicon of deceased Bavarian writers of the 18th and 19th centuries , Volume 2 (M – Z), Jenisch and Stage, Augsburg and Leipzig, pp. 349–354.
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Zauner, Judas Thaddäus . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 59th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1890, pp. 207–209 ( digitized version ).
• Franz von Krones :  Zauner, Judas Thaddäus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 44, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, p. 726 f.

Web links

Commons : Judas Thaddäus Zauner  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Works by and about Judas Thaddäus Zauner  in the German Digital Library