Spaun (noble family)
Spaun is the name of an originally Swabian family whose lineage begins with the farmer and Garnsieder Bartholomäus Spaun , documented 1583–1599, in Deisenhausen ( district of Günzburg ) and which later became prosperous in Linz ( Austria ).
Nobility uprisings
In the kingdom of knighthood called leadership " Edler von Spaun " was on March 13, 1721 Vienna of the Lower Austrian State Counsel Dr. jur. utr. Franz Anton Spaun charged. His son, the Imperial and Royal Hofrat Simon Thaddäus Ritter von Spaun , was elevated to the Upper Austrian knighthood on April 23, 1776 .
The Bohemian Inkolat received on May 15, 1844 in Vienna the canon Heinrich Ritter von Spaun in Olomouc ( Moravia ).
Joseph Ritter von Spaun , Imperial Councilor and Lottery Director, was elevated to the status of Austrian baron on August 25, 1859 with a diploma from November 2, 1859 . His son, the kuk Admiral Hermann Freiherr von Spaun , transferred his membership of the Austrian baron to the industrialist Max Ritter von Spaun on November 15, 1902 in Schönbrunn with a diploma from December 6, 1902 in Vienna .
Name bearer (chronological)
- Franz von Spaun (1753–1826), writer, publicist and mathematician, held in solitary confinement for ten years in 1788 because of a writing that was dangerous to the state.
- Joseph von Spaun (1788–1865), baron, Austrian lottery director, honorary citizen of Vienna and Teschen, patron of Franz Schubert
- Anton von Spaun (1790–1849), Austrian literary historian and folklorist
- Maximilian von Spaun (1827–1897), Austrian notary and liberal politician
- Hermann von Spaun (1833–1919), baron, Austrian admiral and fleet commander
- Paul von Spaun (1876–1932), Austrian painter and disciple of Karl-Wilhelm Diefenbach
- Fridolin von Spaun (1901–2004), German political activist, founder of archives and family researcher
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Spaun, the family, genealogy . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 36th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1878, pp. 84–86 ( digitized version ).
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume XIII, Volume 128 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2002, ISSN 0435-2408
