Leopold Chimani

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Leopold Chimani (born February 20 or February 21, 1774 in Langenzersdorf ; died April 21, 1844 in Wieden ) was an Austrian pedagogue, censor and writer for young people.

Life

Leopold Chimani was the son of the elementary school teacher from Langenzersdorf. He became a choirboy at St. Stephan in Vienna from 1784 until his voice broke in 1789 and attended the St. Anna high school . Chimani studied pedagogy in self-study and in 1793 became a private tutor and educator for a petty aristocracy, before he became director of the secondary and industrial school in Korneuburg in 1798 . He married Anna Guitton. Chimani also founded a small educational institution with a high school character and also trained teachers. Chimani published a teaching in Latin and, thanks to his knowledge of French, was able to negotiate with the Napoleonic occupation in Korneuburg, which is why the community later offered him honorary citizenship and, more recently, donated a memorial plaque on his house on Hauptplatz 9.

Chimani gave up the pedagogical profession for health reasons and from 1807 worked as the accounting factor for the kk schoolbook wear administration and became its director in 1819. From 1817 he was responsible for the educational and philological books in the Empire in the censor authority.

Chimani wrote over a hundred books for children and young people, often in several volumes, with which he wanted to influence the youth in a patriotic and moral-religious way.

Chimani's grave was moved in 1901 from the Matzleinsdorf Catholic cemetery to the Vienna Central Cemetery , where an honorary grave was donated to him. Chimanistraße in Oberdöbling was named after him.

Fonts (selection)

Rewards of virtue and piety (1828)
  • Patriotic entertainments for the youth . 1815.
  • Holiday trip from Vienna to Ischl . 1829.
  • Biographies of famous and deserving men . 1832.
  • Famous Women Biographies . 1832.
  • Colorful scenes from human life . HF Müller, Vienna 1836.
  • The historical picture room . 1837.
  • The Little Belvedere . 1840.

literature

  • Carola Pohlmann: Colorful scenes from human life. Leopold Chimani and his publisher Heinrich Friedrich Müller. In: Gunda Mairbäurl u. a. (Ed.): Childhood, childhood literature, children's literature. Studies on the history of Austrian literature. Festschrift for Ernst Seibert . Praesens, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-7069-0644-9 , pp. 69-82.
  • Klaus Dieter Füller: Successful Biedermeier children's book authors. Christoph von Schmid, Leopold Chimani, Gustav Nieritz, Christian Gottlob Barth. From edification to entertainment . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-631-54516-9 , pp. 61–98, bibliography on pp. 222–225.
  • Handbook for children's and young people's literature . Volume 4: From 1800 to 1850. Metzler, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 978-3-476-00768-1 , column 1191, bibliography on column 1192-1201.

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personal data
SURNAME Chimani, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian educator, censor and writer for young people
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1774
PLACE OF BIRTH Langenzersdorf
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1844
Place of death Wieden (district of Vienna)