Theodor Unger (numismatist)

Theodor Unger (born October 11, 1840 in Graz , † October 27, 1896 ibid) was an Austrian archivist , numismatist and dialectologist .

Life

Unger, son of botany professor Franz Unger (born November 30, 1800 - † February 13, 1870) and his wife Maria Josepha b. Sand (t), received part of his school education (1855–1857) at the Theresianum in Vienna and completed it at the “kk high school in Graz” . He then began studying law at the University of Graz , which he broke off to the displeasure of his father. Instead, he joined the archives in 1864 as a volunteer at the Joanneum in Graz, which was elevated to the rank of "kk technical college" in the same year . A comprehensive cabinet of coins and antiques belonged to the archive, where Unger found his calling. He was appointed or promoted to an aspirant in 1866, an official at the Styrian Provincial Archives in 1869 and an adjunct in 1874 , and was promoted to first curator .

Unger, who also owned an important private coin collection, devoted himself to numismatic research, but appeared to the public relatively late with his own contributions: "Small contributions to the coinage of the Crown Land of Styria" (1890); “Numismatic forays into archival areas” (1892); “On the history of the Viennese Raths- and Salvator-Pfennige” (1897, posthumously). In addition, he cultivated his keen interest in dialects and put together an extensive collection of Styrian dialect vocabulary , which was posthumously edited and published at the request of his heirs by the Germanist and literary historian Ferdinand Khull (1854–1942), then a teacher at Graz's second state high school: Styrian vocabulary as a supplement to Schmeller's Bavarian dictionary , 1903.

Unger remained unmarried throughout his life. He died at the age of only 56. His estate is kept in the Styrian State Archives in Graz.

Footnotes

1. ^ Ferdinand Franz Josef Johann Alois Khull, * December 3, 1854 in Klagenfurt, † September 25, 1942 in Graz; from 2007 Khull-Kholwald.
2. ^ Journal of the General German Language Association , XVIII. Volume, No. 9, 1903, p. 278
3. ↑ Reprint: Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, Graz, 2009, ISBN 978-3-201-01898-2

Web links

• Unger, Theodor, in the Austrian Biographical Lexicon (on-line)
• Styrian vocabulary as a supplement to Schmeller's Bavarian dictionary, collected by Theodor Unger, edited for print and edited by Ferdinand Khull. Leuschner & Lubensky, Graz, 1903