Martin von Hochmeister

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Martin Hochmeister , von Hochmeister since 1813 (born April 19, 1767 in Sibiu ; † January 9, 1837 ibid), was mayor of Sibiu from 1818.

Father Martin Hochmeister

His father, Martin Hochmeister (1740–1789), who lived in Sibiu, was the first printer and publisher of mainly periodicals in Transylvania. In 1784 he founded the Transylvanian Messenger . In 1787, the city gave him the thick tower of the Sibiu bastion, in which he set up the first rococo-style theater there the following year (today the Thalia Philharmonic Hall ).

Life

Martin attended the “Theresianum” in Waitzen at the age of twelve and studied law at the Lyceum in Cluj-Napoca . He then entered the Gubernium (provincial government) and in 1786 the Sibiu magistrate .

He was a member of the Masonic lodge St. Andreas to the three sea leaves in the Orient in Sibiu, which existed from 1767 to 1790 and kept the lodge's papers.

Joseph Benkös Imago Inclytæ In Transsylvania ... , published in 1791 by Martin von Hochmeister

Martin had also learned his father's trade and ran his printing shop in his house on Wintergasse (today Strada Timotei Popovici No. 9). Like Johann Gött , he became a pioneer of Transylvanian journalism. From 1790 to 1801 he published the Transylvania quarterly (the first scientific journal in Transylvania) and from 1805 to 1824 the Transylvanian Provincial Papers, in which the research and regional studies of Transylvania were concentrated. He carried on the Transylvanian messenger all his life. In 1790 he founded a bookstore and printing company in Cluj-Napoca, which he donated to the royal Lyceum in 1809. Here he published the magazine Erdély-Magyar Hir-Vivő , later Hiradó , since 1790 . He renovated the burnt-out theater.

In 1811 he became a judge (in Hungary the head of a judicial district). He enjoyed the personal confidence of the Emperor I. Franz , was in Vienna on July 9, 1813 ennobled and on 10 October 1817 Sibiu proconsul and Senator. He was mayor of Sibiu from 1818 to 1829 and, according to the constitution, held the dignity of Saxon Count (Comes der Nationsuniversität ) during a vacancy from 1825 to 1827 .

On January 7, 1819 he married Maria Elisabeth "Elise" Leonhardt (born January 18, 1784 in Rothberg ; † April 22, 1830), who had grown up with her step-grandmother Frau von Baußern (née von Hermannsfeld). Their daughter Julie Elisabeth († 1902) and their son Adolf were born on July 29, 1820, and their son Adolf was born in 1823, and were baptized on January 27, 1823. A son, Eduard, was baptized on January 17, 1826.

When he retired in 1829, he was appointed to the royal council.

Publications

  • The Saxon Nation in Transylvania Statuta or Eigen Land-Recht ( Stephanus König ). after 1813
  • Instruction to prevent weeds in gardens and to exterminate them in the most infallible way. 1826
  • The infallible caterpillar, insect and worm-killer: the newest and most proven means to drive away harmful insects and worms in gardens, plantations, forests and fields and to destroy them completely. Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg and Leipzig 1826

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Magyar Katolikus Lexicon: Grand Master.
  2. ↑ Harald Meschendörfer: Martin Hochmeister dJ In: Lexikon der Siebenbürger Sachsen. Wort und Welt Verlag, ISBN 3-85373-140-6 , p. 195
  3. ↑ Harald Meschendörfer: Press and Journalism In: Lexikon der Siebenbürger Sachsen. Pp. 391-395
  4. ^ Zeno.org: Judges.
  5. ↑ adz.ro: History in Life Pictures: Chronicle of the families of Hochmeister and Krafft. ( Memento from September 26, 2012 on WebCite )
personal data
SURNAME Hochmeister, Martin von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Printer and Mayor of Sibiu
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1767
PLACE OF BIRTH Sibiu
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1837
Place of death Sibiu