Rudolf Auspitz

Rudolf Auspitz

Palais Albrecht, residence of Karl and Rudolf Auspitz from 1853–1872

Palais Auspitz-Lieben, today Café Landtmann is located on the ground floor (Oppolzergasse 6 / Universitätsring 4)

Neue Freie Presse Wien, No. 14923, March 10, 1906

Auspitz family, grave at Döblinger Friedhof

Rudolf Auspitz (born July 7, 1837 in Vienna ; † March 8, 1906 there ) was an Austrian industrialist , economist , politician and banker .

Life

Rudolf Auspitz, born in 1837 as the son of the banker Samuel Auspitz (1795–1867) and Therese Lewinger (1800–1877), attended the polytechnic institute in Vienna , later he studied economics and natural sciences , especially chemistry, in Berlin and Paris . At the age of 26, he built a sugar factory in Rohatetz (Rohatce) in Moravia , and later a second in Bisenz (Bzenec) . In 1871, he was in the Moravian parliament elected in 1873, he was a liberal deputy member of the Austrian Empire Council . In parliamentary circles he was called Lycurg von Rohatetz .

After he 1872 Palais Albrecht at the kk privileged mutual Fire Damage Insurance Fund had sold, he bought together with his cousins and cousins Leopold, Adolf , Richard, Ida and Helene loved ones in 1874, the Palais Auspitz Loves in Oppolzergasse 6 in Vienna . Rudolf Auspitz's mother Therese, and the mother of his cousins, Elise Lewinger (1809–1877), were siblings. The house became the ancestral home of the two Jewish families, Leopold and Anna Lieben moved from the Palais Todesco to the first floor of the house in 1888 , and Rudolf's daughter Josefine also moved into her own apartment in the family seat as a married woman in 1896.

His wife and cousin Helene Lieben (1838-1896) was a student of the painter Georg Decker (1818-1894). She portrayed highly talented Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872), with whom she was on friendly terms until his death.

In 1879 Helene fell ill with depression . Because of this mental illness , she was transferred to the Préfargier psychiatric clinic near Neuchâtel (Neuchâtel) , Canton Neuchâtel in Switzerland . A governess , Marie Heidenhain († 1919) from Dresden came to the house for her daughter Josefine Rosalie Auspitz (1873–1943) and their only three-year-old brother . After the parents' marriage was dissolved on March 28, 1890, Rudolf Auspitz married this governess after the death of his wife in 1896, which led to serious disagreements with his brother-in-law Franz Brentano , who was married to Ida Lieben (1852-1894) . Marie Heidenhain came from an originally Jewish family, but her father had converted . The Heidenhains were related to the Auspitz in the paternal line.

Together with his brother-in-law Richard Lieben, a recognized economist, he ran the Auspitz, Lieben & Co. banking house . Their partner in the banking house founded in 1842 was Rudolf's brother Carl Auspitz (1824–1912). Richard and Rudolf wrote a major work of the mathematical school of economics in Austria: Investigations on the theory of price , which was translated into French and, after the First World War, into Japanese .

After his death, Rudolf Auspitz was buried in the Döblinger Friedhof in the 19th district of Vienna in department I1 / G1 / Crypt 13 in an honorary grave.

Fonts

• with Richard Lieben: Investigations into the theory of price. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889. Reprinted by Hohmann, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-9316-2002-6 .
• with Richard Lieben, Louis Suret: Recherches sur la théorie du prix. Giard, Paris 1914 ( Part 1 (PDF; 22.6 MB), Part 2 ; PDF; 2.0 MB).

Foundation, endowment

In memory of his deceased son Leopold (1877–1897), Rudolf Auspitz donated 400 Austrian crowns annually from 1897 , with which a popular physical and chemical university course bearing the name Leopold Auspitz was to be held. In his will he left 20,000 crowns to secure the course.

literature

• Jakob Baxa :  Auspitz, Rudolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 458 ( digitized version ).
• Auspitz Rudolf. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 38.
• M. Gross: Ilustrated Austrian Reichsrath album. Fein, Vienna 1876, p. 15.
• Franz Maciejewski: The Moses of Sigmund Freud, a sinister brother. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-5254-5374-4 , p. 162.
• Kohut, Famous Israelite Men and Women in the Cultural History of Mankind: Life and Character Images from the Past and the Present; a handbook for the home and family. With numerous portraits and other illustrations, Volume 2, AH Payne 1901, p. 373ff

Web links

Commons : Rudolf Auspitz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Auspitz, Rudolf . Short biography on the website of the Austrian Parliament
• Literature by and about Rudolf Auspitz in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Auspitz, Rudolf . Short biography on the website of the Austrian Parliament
2. ^ The Jewish Encyclopedia
3. ↑ Theodor Gomperz: A learned life in the middle class of the Franz-Josefs-time. Selection of his letters and notes, 1869–1912, explained and linked to a representation of his life. Austrian Academy of Sciences, 1974, p. 78 (Vienna June 18, 1875)
4. ^ Karl-Heinz Rossbacher: Literature and bourgeoisie. Böhlau, 2003, ISBN 3-2059-9497-3 , p. 291.
5. ^ Karl-Heinz Rossbacher: Literature and bourgeoisie. Böhlau, 2003, ISBN 3-2059-9497-3 , p. 326.
6. ^ Karl-Heinz Rossbacher: Literature and bourgeoisie. Böhlau, 2003, ISBN 3-2059-9497-3 , p. 291.
7. ^ University of Vienna: The ceremonial inauguration of the rector of the Vienna University. Self-published by the kk University, Vienna 1901, p. 11.