Matthäus Klimesch

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Matthäus Klimesch (also Johann Matthäus Klimesch ; Czech Matyáš Klimesch , Matouš Klimeš ; born August 26, 1850 in Rossboden ( Rozpoutí ) near Kaplitz ; † April 13, 1940 in Vienna ) was a Bohemian historian and local researcher .

Life

Matthäus Klimesch first attended the German grammar school in Budweis and then from 1871 the Stiftsgymnasium Seitenstetten . In 1874 he passed the higher education entrance qualification at the First State High School in Graz and then studied at the Philosophical Faculty. In 1880 he passed the teaching examination for geography, history and German.

Even before the doctorate to Dr.-phil. 1885 was Klimesch 1884 a teaching assistant position at the State Trade School in Graz and in the school year 1888/89 there a teaching job at the Second State School. In 1891 he was appointed professor at the German teacher training institute in Prague and from 1895 professor at the state high school in Ljubljana , where he was also the editor of the Ljubljana school newspaper . In 1914 he was retired, first moved to Graz and later to live with his son in Vienna.

Klimesch became known through numerous historical researches and essays and works on the history of the homeland, which mainly deal with the settlement history of individual localities in his closer homeland in South Bohemia. While still a student he wrote the articles Die Burg Poreschin and On the history of Burg Weleschin for the Budweiser Kreisblatt . He also wrote numerous articles for the journals Der Böhmenwald and Waldheimat as well as for the communications of the Association for the History of Germans in Bohemia .

Matthäus Klimesch made particular contributions with the publication of the Rosenberg Chronicle, which was translated into German by Norbert Heermann and which was written in Czech after 1594 by the Rosenberg archivist Václav Březan . The translation was edited by Matthäus Klimesch using footnotes and printed in 1897 under the title Norbert Heermann's Rosenberg'sche Chronik by the publishing house of the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences in Prague.

Matthäus Klimesch was married three times. His marriages had five sons and one daughter. He died in Vienna and was buried in the family grave in Kaplitz. At his house in the XVI. In 1952 a memorial plaque was placed in the Vienna district at Grundsteingasse 7.

Works and essays (selection)

  • Document and register book of the former Poor Clare Monastery in Krummau , Prague 1904
  • The place names in southern and southwestern Bohemia , Prague 1909
  • Historian of the former Goldenkron Cistercian Abbey (1893/94)
  • About the oldest Czech document from Schlägl Abbey
  • On the older history of Kaplitz
  • The German localities of the Kaplitzer district authority according to their layout and the division of their corridors
  • The property of the Premonstratensian monasteries in Strahov , Mühlhausen and Schlägl in southern Bohemia
  • On the history of the Ljubljana grammar school , Ljubljana 1896 (Slovenian)
  • Heinrich the First von Rosenberg Relationship with the Habsburg Albrecht I , Laibach 1912 (Slovenian)

The history of the Kaplitz district , also written by Klimesch, was not printed. The manuscript is considered lost.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kaplice 15 1832-1899. Retrieved July 22, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Klimesch, Matthäus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klimesch, Johann Matthäus; Klimesch, Matyáš
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bohemian historian and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Rossboden b. Kaplitz
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1940
Place of death Vienna