Theobald von Rizy

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Theobald von Rizy on a painting by Franz Rumpler (1878)

Franz Theobald Freiherr von Rizy (born February 11, 1807 in Vienna ; † May 18, 1882 there ; until 1866: Franz Theobald Rizy ) was an Austrian lawyer and politician .

Life

Theobald Rizy's parents were the lawyer Johann Sigmund Rizy and Franziska Rizy, née Sonnleithner. Franziska Rizy came from a family of lawyers and artists. Her father was the lawyer and composer Christoph Sonnleithner . Her many siblings include the lawyer and civil servant Christoph Heinrich Sonnleithner , the civil servant and writer Franz Xaver Sonnleithner , the lawyer and author Ignaz Sonnleithner , the pianist Johanna Sonnleithner and the librettist, theater director and archivist Joseph Sonnleithner . Her sister Anna married Wenzel Grillparzer and was the mother of the writer Franz Grillparzer , who was thus Theobald Rizy's cousin.

Rizy attended the Schottengymnasium in Vienna from 1816 to 1822 , followed by the philosophical classes in preparation for university studies. From 1824 to 1828 he studied Jus at the University of Vienna . There he was promoted to Dr. iur. PhD . During his student days he worked as an intern at the Vienna Coin and Antique Cabinet. He then worked as an educator for Franz Fürst Khevenhüller-Metsch , followed by a job with the censorship authority in their book revision office in Vienna. Rizy became a trainee at a Viennese law firm in 1835 . In 1838 he accepted a position as a supplement for civil law at the University of Vienna.

Theobald Rizy became an attorney in 1842 and also a notary in Vienna in 1848 . In 1844 he had married his cousin Maria Sonnleithner. There were no children from the marriage. In the revolutionary year of 1848 in Austria , Rizy's office was the meeting place for the Austrian Club , which sought moderate political reforms and maintained the legal order. In addition to Rizy himself, August Artaria , Ludwig von Köchel , Franz Grillparzer and Adalbert Stifter took part in the meeting. In the same year Rizy became a member of a ministry commission that studied the practice of the legal institutions in the German Rhineland . On his return he was called in as a consultant in legislative procedures. Since the end of the 1840s he has privately supported the publication of poems by his childhood friend Franz Stelzhamer financially, but fell out with him a few years later when Stelzhamer accused Rizy of the unannounced new edition of one of his works.

In 1849 Theobald Rizy was appointed General Procurator at the Higher Regional Court of Vienna . In 1850 he founded the magazine Allgemeine Österreichische Rechts-Zeitung , which he published until 1866. Also in 1850 he became a curator at the association of the First Austrian Spar-Casse in Vienna , of which he had been a member since 1848 and was its deputy chief curator from 1858 to 1865. Rizy became a senior public prosecutor in Vienna in 1854 . From 1857 he served as Vice President of the Higher Regional Court of Vienna and became its head in 1860. In the same year he received the Knight's Cross of the Leopold Order . In 1861 he was appointed provisional head of the legislative department of the Ministry of Justice and, together with Georg von Mitis, took over the management of the affairs of Justice Minister Adolf Pratobevera von Wiesborn , who was permanently ill. From 1862 to 1866 he was the representative of Austria and President of the Commission that worked out a general code of civil procedure for the states of the German Confederation in Hanover . In Austria he was awarded the Order of the Iron Crown II. Class in June 1866 and on December 1, 1866 he was raised to the Austrian nobility as a baron . For his work in the commission he also received a number of orders of German princes, for example he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of St. Michael and the Order of Merit of Philip the Magnanimous, as well as Commander First Class of the Albrecht Order and as Commander of the Guelph Order honored.

Theobald von Rizy worked again from 1866 as Vice President of the Higher Regional Court of Vienna. From 1869 to 1871 he was formally a member of the State Court, which was responsible for certain charges against ministers and never took action during its existence. Rizy was appointed to the manor house of the Austrian Imperial Council on December 22, 1871 as a member of parliament for life . He participated frequently in the debates in parliament and appeared several times as a rapporteur , for example for the Syndicate Act of July 12, 1872. He was an influential member of the legal commission of the manor house. In 1872, Rizy became the First Senate President of the Supreme Court and Real Privy Council . After his cousin Franz Grillparzer died in early 1872, Theobald von Rizy was responsible for the order of his estate. In the same year he achieved a complete edition of Grillparzer's works by Cotta-Verlag and published his cousin's poems as a Viennese Grillparzer album in 1877 .

Grave of Theobald von Rizy

Theobald von Rizy died in 1882 at the age of 75. He was buried in an honorary grave in the Hietzingen cemetery . Rizy's name has been on the honor roll of the law faculty of the University of Vienna since 1892/1893 . Rizygasse in Vienna- Untermeidling was named after him in 1918 .

Fonts

  • The proof by the main oath in the Austrian civil trial. According to the principles of the general and the West Galician judicial system, with constant consideration of general law . Ritter von Mösle's blessed Witwe & Braumüller, Vienna 1837 ( digitized ).
  • Hamlet . In: JP Kaltenbaeck (Ed.): Leaves for literature, art and criticism (supplement to the Oesterreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichts- und Staatskunde) . Third year, no. 81-86 . F. Beck, Vienna 1837, p. 321-322, 325-327, 329-330, 333-335, 337-338, 341-342 .
  • About the obligation to provide evidence in the civil trial. An attempt to put the doctrine of the burden of proof on a firm footing; with special consideration for the Austrian lawsuits . Braumüller and Seidel, Vienna 1841 ( digitized version ).
  • About interest taxes and usury laws . Wilhelm Braumüller, Vienna 1859 ( digitized version ).

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Rizy, Theobald Freiherr von (1866) Dr. iur. Austrian Parliament , accessed on March 15, 2020 .
  2. ^ Constantin von Wurzbach : Stammtafel of the Sonnleithner family . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 36th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1878, p. 15 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ a b c d e Johanna Bianchi:  Rizy, Theobald Frh. Von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 9, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-7001-1483-4 , p. 185.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Wurzbach: Rizy, Franz Theobald Freiherr von . In: Biographical Lexicon. 26th part. Vienna 1874, p. 203 f. ( Digitized version ).
  5. ^ Johanna Bianchi: Theobald Freiherr von Rizy and Franz Stelzhamer . In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets . Volume 18, No. 3/4 , 1964, p. 97–98 ( PDF on ZOBODAT [accessed March 15, 2020]).
  6. ↑ a b Baron v. Rizy † . In: Legal papers . XI. Year, no. 22 , May 28, 1882, pp. 264 ( digitized version [accessed March 15, 2020]).
  7. ^ History of the Constitutional Court. Constitutional Court of Austria , accessed on March 15, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Grave sites dedicated to honor or taken into custody in the Hietzing cemetery. (PDF) Friedhöfe Wien , April 2008, p. 4 , accessed on March 15, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Franz Theobald Freiherr von Rizy, Dr. In: 650 Years - History of the University of Vienna. February 18, 2017, accessed March 15, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Felix Czeike (Ed.): Rizygasse. In:  Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 4, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-218-00546-9 , p. 681 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Rizy, Theobald von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baron von Rizy, Franz Theobald (full name); Rizy, Franz Theobald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1882
Place of death Vienna