Vincent Maria Suess

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Photo of the missing painting by Vinzenz Maria Süß, painted by Sebastian Stief in the Salzburg Museum

Vinzenz Maria Süß (actually Maria Vinzenz Franz Alois Süß ; born January 15, 1802 in Weißenbach near Strobl , Prince Archbishopric Salzburg ; † May 5, 1868 in Salzburg , Austria-Hungary ) was a writer and founder of the Salzburg Museum Carolino Augusteum .

Life

Süss was born in 1802 as the son of the accountant Franz Maria Süss, who came from the Bohemian Gottesgab , and Maria Berchtold zu Sonnenburg in the then prince-archbishop's hammer factory in Weissenbach at 4:00 am and on the same day in the Vicariate Church Strobl by Vikar (1800–1806) Simon Winkler was baptized with four names at 10:00 a.m.: Maria , Vincentius Fererius (= Vinzenz Ferrer ), Franciscus Seraphicus and Aloysius . Nannerl Mozart , who married Johann Baptist Baron Berchtold von Sonnenburg, who died in 1801, was therefore his great-aunt.

From 1816 to 1818, Süß attended the school teachers' seminar in the city of Salzburg, which at that time was housed in the Kapellhaus in Sigmund-Haffner-Gasse , and after a brief teaching activity he hired himself as a clerk at the tax offices in Zell am See , Goldegg and from 1824 in Salzburg. There he joined the municipality in 1828, became a tax inspector in 1829 and was a pawnshop administrator from 1841 to 1863.

In 1833, Süß founded the Salzburg Museum , thus preventing Salzburg art treasures from migrating to the provincial capital Linz , to which Salzburg was subordinate to the district town of the Salzach district until 1850 . The museum, which Suss was director until his death, was officially opened in 1835. With a municipal council resolution of March 5, 1849, it was taken over into the ownership of the city under its founder and director Vinzenz Maria Süß. On November 11 of the same year, Karoline Auguste von Bayern , the widow of Emperor Franz I , was able to win a patroness for this institution, which since then has become known far beyond the borders of Salzburg as the Museum Carolinum Augusteum.

Süss fell seriously ill in 1859 and was confined to bed for 14 months; he did not recover from his illness. In 1863 he applied for his retirement. After his death as a result of a heart condition on May 5, 1868, he was buried in the Sebastian Cemetery in Salzburg .

Epitaph of Maria Vincenz Süss in the Sebastian Cemetery in Salzburg

Literary activity

Suss's literary activity was limited to writing locally-related essays and works on the history of his Salzburg homeland. His contributions to the history of typography in the Archdiocese of Salzburg (1845) and Salzburg folk songs with their ways of singing (1865) are well known. The work published in 1848 received great attention: The Mayors of Salzburg from 1433 to 1840 . In the manner customary at the time, Suss blended the passage of time into the life of the individual city leaders and particularly emphasized those events that seemed important and worth recording to him at the time.

  • Salzburg folk songs with their ways of singing. Mayrische Buchhandlung, Salzburg 1865 ( digitized in the Google book search).

Honors

On August 2, 1852, the municipal council of the crown region capital Salzburg named Vinzenz Maria Süß an honorary citizen of Salzburg "in grateful recognition of his services" for the establishment of the museum . In 1854 he worked as a state conservator and was awarded the Golden Cross of Merit with the Crown . From King Otto I of Greece , who was one of the first honorary members of the museum, he was awarded the Silver Knight's Cross of the Royal Greek Order of Savior in 1855 (both medals can be seen in the painting above).

In memory of his work for the city of Salzburg, he was given a further honor in 1926 with the naming of Vinzenz-Maria-Süß-Strasse in the Elisabeth-Vorstadt district, which runs between Bergheimerstrasse and Plainstrasse .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Markus Weiglein: Maria Vincenz Süss. Salzburg Museum - The work of art of the month , 31st year, sheet 361, May 2018.
  2. ^ Joseph Bergmann: The Municipal Museum Carolino-Augusteum in Salzburg. In: Mittheilungen der KK Central Commission for Research and Preservation of Architectural Monuments , Volume 7, 1862, pp. 329–331, here p. 329, Col. 2 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  3. ↑ See: [1] , accessed on March 25, 2017.
  4. ^ AES , Strobl, Taufbuch (TFBI) 1761-1830. See: [2] , picture number 05-Taufe_0084, accessed on March 25, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Sweet, Vincent Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sweet, Maria Vinzenz (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Writer and founder of the Salzburg Museum Carolino Augusteum
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Weißenbach near Strobl , Prince Archdiocese of Salzburg
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1868
Place of death Salzburg , Austria-Hungary