Theodor Inama from Sternegg

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Karl Theodor Inama von Sternegg, Portrait of Fanny Inama von Sternegg (1907)
Bust in the arcade courtyard of the University of Vienna

Karl Theodor Ferdinand Michael Inama von Sternegg (born January 20, 1843 in Augsburg , † November 28, 1908 in Innsbruck ; also von Inama-Sternegg ) was a German-Austrian political scientist , statistician and economic historian .

Life

Theodor Inama von Sternegg comes from the Inama family , whose roots lie in the Non Valley ( Welschtirol ). He studied history, law and economics at the University of Munich and received his doctorate there in 1865 with his award work The Economic Consequences of the Thirty Years' War (in: Historisches Taschenbuch , 1864) . He then completed his habilitation there in 1867.

In 1868 he went to the University of Innsbruck . In Innsbruck he became a member of the striking student union Akademischer Gesangsverein . In 1880 he was appointed to the Charles University in Prague . In the following year, 1881, he was appointed director of administrative statistics and, in 1884, head of section and president of the Central Statistical Commission .

He was also an honorary professor at the University of Vienna and in 1890 organized for the first time a central processing of the Austrian census with electrical machines.

Inama-Sternegg has been editing the monthly statistical journal since 1881 . He was the founder of the official publications of the Central Statistical Commission and thus editor of Austrian Statistics , Statistical Handbook and Austrian Town Book (9th year 1902). He was also co-editor of the magazine for economics, social policy and administration (Vienna, since 1892).

In 1869 he married Henriette Aigner von Aigenhofen (1849–1917) in Innsbruck. The couple had two sons and two daughters, including the painter Fanny Inama von Sternegg and the genealogist and heraldist Karl Inama von Sternegg .

Honors

Theodor Inama-Sternegg was a member of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna , a corresponding member of the Accademia dei Lincei , the Prussian and Bavarian Academy of Sciences , honorary doctorate from the Universities of Vienna, Cambridge, Krakow and Chernivtsi. He became a member of the Leopoldina in 1886. In 1891 he was appointed a lifelong member of the Austrian manor house . In 1901 he was appointed privy councilor.

Fonts

  • Administrative apprenticeship in outline , Innsbruck 1870
  • Investigations into the court system in the Middle Ages , Innsbruck 1872
  • Development of the German Alpine Villages , in: Historisches Taschenbuch , 1874
  • About the sources of German economic history , Vienna 1877
  • The formation of the great manors in Germany during the Carolingian era , Leipzig 1878
  • German economic history ; Volume 1: Until the end of the Carolingian period , Leipzig 1879; Volume 2: In the 10th – 12th Century , Leipzig 1891; Volume 3: In the last centuries of the Middle Ages , 2 parts, Leipzig 1899–1901
  • On the constitutional history of the German saltworks in the Middle Ages , Leipzig 1886
  • Salland studies , Tübingen 1889
  • Outline of German economic history , in: Hermann Paul : Grundriß der Germanischen Philologie , Strasbourg 1889
  • The personal circumstances of the Viennese poor , Vienna 1892 a. 1899
  • Political science treatises , Leipzig 1903
  • as editor with Ignaz Vinzenz Zingerle : Die Tirolischen Weistümer , 3 volumes, Vienna 1875–1880
  • All ADB articles from Karl Theodor von Inama-Sternegg

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Albin Kulhanek: Chronicle of the AGV Innsbruck 1863-1906 . Innsbruck 2003, p. 92 .
  2. ↑ see literature ÖBL Inama von Sternegg, Karl Theodor
personal data
SURNAME Inama von Sternegg, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Inama-Sternegg, Theodor von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian political scientist, statistician and economic historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Augsburg , Germany
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1908
Place of death Innsbruck , Austria