Lorenz von Westenrieder

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Lorenz von Westenrieder; Painting by Moritz Kellerhoven .
Westenrieder's birthplace at Westenriederstrasse 21 in Munich.

Lorenz Westenrieder , from 1808 Ritter von Westenrieder , (born August 1, 1748 in Munich ; † March 15, 1829 ibid) was a German theologian , educator , historian and publicist of the Enlightenment . He is considered to be the rediscoverer of Bavarian prehistory, but also dealt with contemporary Bavaria. In addition, he was a Munich local patriot.

life and work

Westenrieder graduated from the Jesuit high school in Munich in 1764 (today: Wilhelmsgymnasium Munich ). He then studied philosophy (= basic studies) and theology at the adjoining lyceum. In 1771 he was ordained a priest . After the abolition of the Jesuit order in 1773 he became professor for poetics and rhetoric at the grammar school in Landshut and in 1774 for rhetoric in Munich. In 1776 he was appointed book censorship council and in 1799 he became director of the book censorship commission. In 1777 he became a member and 1779 secretary of the historical class of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , whose director he became in 1808. In this role he campaigned for the development of lithography and contributed funds for the construction of the first larger lithographic press. At the beginning of 1779 he joined the Order of Illuminati , which he left again at the end of the year. In 1786 he was appointed ecclesiastical council and cathedral capitular of Munich, in 1808 he received the knight's cross of the civil merit order of the Bavarian crown, with which the ennoblement was connected.

Westenrieder was a supporter of a moderate Enlightenment . In addition to his historical and theoretical works, he also wrote novels and plays. His historical and literary work comprises more than a hundred volumes, which often deal with the socio-cultural development of Munich and its residents. Westenrieder is considered one of the most important Bavarian writers of the 18th and early 19th centuries.

tomb

Grave of Lorenz Westenrieder on the old southern cemetery in Munich location

The tomb of Lorenz Westenrieder is on the old southern cemetery in Munich (Old Arkadenplatz 92 at cemetery 19) location .

Conception of art

In his opinion, painting in the great outdoors can achieve just as good results as ideal landscapes in the studio. This led to the founding of private painting schools, which, as in Munich, were called the Westenrieder painting school .

Text sample

(via the rose island )

“... the island would be big enough to bury any sorrow in it, also big enough to accommodate two hearts, which now in the sweetest and happiest enthusiasm of their souls need nothing but themselves and wish nothing but bushes, their happiness before the eyes of To hide envy. "

Works (chronological)

Westrieder's bust in the Hall of Fame , Munich
Westenrieder's statue on Promenadeplatz , Munich
  • Essential concepts of practical Christianity . (1774, anonymous)
  • Talk about the reasons why the fruits of school improvements are not suddenly visible and general . (1774)
  • The two candidates . (1774, comedy)
  • Marc Aurel . (1776)
  • Introduction to the beautiful sciences . (1777)
  • Letters of the Bavarian way of thinking and customs . (1778)
  • Speech in memory of Peter von Osterwald Sr. churfürstl. Illuminated in Bavaria, secret advice, first director of the churfürstl. ecclesiastical council, then academic director of the philosophical class . (1778)
  • Bavarian contributions to beautiful and useful literature . (1779–1781)
  • Speeches and treatises . (1780)
  • In memory of Andreas Felix von Oefele . (1780)
  • Speech in memory of the churfl. Spiritual Rath's secretary Anton Johann Lipowsky etc. (1781)
  • Life of the good youth Engelhof . (1781, novel)
  • The dream in three nights . (1782)
  • From the decay of the secular priests . (1782)
  • From the Baiern in Holland . (1782)
  • Description of the capital and residence city of Munich . (1782)
  • Yearbook of human history in Bavaria . (1782)
  • Description of the capital and residence city of Munich in its current state . (1783) ( digitized version )
  • That it is not sensible to publicly disparage our preachers in a way as was done in the paragraphs . (1783)
  • About the decline of the loden and cloth trade in Bavaria, and about the means to help it up again . (1783, author presumably Westenrieder)
  • Life of Johann Franz Seraph noble von Kohlbrenner, electoral prince. really Hofkammer- Mauth- & Commercienraths in Baiern . (1783)
  • Description of the Wurm or Starenbergersee and the surrounding castles [e] tc. including a map . (1784)
  • Earth description of the Baierisch-Palatinate states . (1784)
  • The history of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . (1784/1807)
  • History of Bavaria for the youth and the people .
    • First volume, Munich 1785 ( e-copy )
    • Second volume, Munich 1785 ( e-copy ).
  • Contributions to patriotic history, geography, statistics and agriculture . (1785 to 1817)
  • Bavarian historical calendar . (1786-1818)
  • From the nominalists . (1786)
  • History of Bavaria . (1786)
  • On the question: What were the basic causes of the numerous abbeys founded in Bavaria from the 11th to the 15th century? And were the sovereign intentions really complied with by them? has Sr. Churfl at the most joyful birth festival. Your highness Carl Theodor in a public academic meeting on the Churfl. Library halls read Lorenz Westenrieder . (1787)
  • Letters from a Bavarian . (1787)
  • About the concealment of old manuscripts and documents . (1788)
  • Emperor Ludwig der Baier . (1792)
  • Statistic description of the electoral prince. District Court Dachau . (1792)
  • About corrections to the government history of Duke Mainhard 1361-1363 . (1792)
  • Reflections on Ludwig the Brandenburger . (1793)
  • Outline of the Bavarian history . (1798)
  • Outline of German history . (1798)
  • Academic speech on the law book of Rupert von Freysing . (1802)
  • Story of my cheek pain called Taismus . (1802)
  • Thought at Ildephons Kennedy . (1804)
  • Thought speech on Carl Albert von Vacchiery, royal. really secret council and court chancellor . (1808)
  • The Würm or Starenbergersee and the surrounding area . (1811)
  • Letters from and from Gastein . (1817)
  • Theses centum, circa materias gravissimas . (1817)
  • On the restoration of the Jesuit order . (1818)
  • Handbook of Bavarian History . (1820)
  • A hundred memories . (1821)
  • A hundred oddities, or the new Munich in 1850 . (1824)
  • The new Munich and Bavaria in 1850 . (1828)
  • All works . (1831–1838, 29 volumes)
  • From the handwritten estate of L. v. Westenrieders . (1882, 2 vols., Ed. Kluckhohn)

literature

  • Maurus Gandershofer : Memories of Lorenz von Westenrieder. With the portrait of the Blessed . Fleischmann, Munich 1830.
  • Franz Maria Ferchl: History of the establishment of the first lithographic art institute at the holiday school for artists and technicians in Munich , Munich, 1862.
  • Karl Theodor von Heigel :  Westenrieder, Lorenz von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 42, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1897, pp. 173-181.
  • Anton Graßl: Westenrieder's correspondence with a representation of his inner development. Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 1934.
  • Wilhelm Haefs: Enlightenment in Old Bavaria. Life, work and impact of Lorenz Westenrieder . Ars Una, Neuried 1998, ISBN 3-89391-352-1 (also: Dissertation, Univ. Munich 1986).
  • Wilhelm Haefs: "Practical Christianity". Reform Catholicism in the writings of the old Bavarian enlightener Lorenz Westenrieder. In: Harm Klueting , Norbert Hinske , Karl Hengst (ed.): Catholic Enlightenment. Enlightenment in Catholic Germany. Meiner, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-7873-1107-6 , pp. 271-301 ( studies on the eighteenth century 15).
  • Alexander Langheiter: Lorenz von Westenrieder. In: Jürgen Wurst, Alexander Langheiter (Ed.): Monachia. Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-88645-156-9 , p. 72.
  • Alois Schmid : Lorenz von Westenrieder (1748–1829). Bavarian historian and writer, spiritual educator. In: Ulrike Leutheusser (Hrsg.): Munich shines for science. Famous researchers and scholars. Allitera Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-86520-257-4 , pp. 207-22 ( Edition Monacensia ).
  • Hans Pörnbacher: Lorenz von Westenrieder. In: Eberhard Dünninger , Dorothee Kiesselbach (Hrsg.): Bavarian literary history in selected examples. Volume 2: Modern Times. Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1967, pp. 153–167.
  • Michael Wittmann: Lorenz von Westenrieder as a textbook author. In: Journal for Bavarian State History. 37, 1974, ISSN  0044-2364 , pp. 917-930, online .
  • Margit Ksoll-Marcon :  Westenrieder, Lorenz von. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 13, Bautz, Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-072-7 , Sp. 990-991.

Web links

Commons : Lorenz von Westenrieder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Lorenz von Westenrieder  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vol., Munich 1970–1976; Vol. 3, p. 102.
  2. ↑ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Bavaria 1828, p. 18.
  3. ↑ Grave place cf. Old southern cemetery in Munich, Franz Schiermeier - Florian Scheungraber - overview plan of the tombs - ISBN 978-3-9811425-6-3 .
  4. ↑ Artists discover the Murnau landscape at the Murnau Castle Museum
  5. ↑ Homepage of the ferry operator: Foreword.
personal data
SURNAME Westenrieder, Lorenz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Westenrieder, Lorenz Ritter von (full name); Westenrieder, Lorenz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1748
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1829
Place of death Munich