Theresius von Seckendorf-Aberdar

Theresius von Seckendorf-Aberdar (born October 18, 1758 in Obernzenn ; † August 5, 1825 in Nuremberg ) was a German biographer, Romance scholar , Hispanist and lexicographer.

life and work

Count Theresius von Seckendorf (or: Seckendorff ) from the Seckendorf-Aberdar line (whose rare first name can be explained from the sponsorship of Empress Maria Theresa , since his father was a councilor at the imperial court), grew up in Vienna, Chur and Stuttgart studied at the University of Erlangen from 1776 , but had to leave the university after two years due to misconduct. He joined a French infantry regiment in Strasbourg, commanded by the later King Maximilian I Joseph (Bavaria) , but resigned from service because of a chronic illness and from then on lived as a private scholar in Franconia, except from 1797 to 1808 (in Prussian times) in the post of District director of the Ansbach district .

Seckendorf published a biography in four volumes, a Spanish-German dictionary in three volumes, and a etiquette based on the model of Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield .

Works

• Attempt to write a biography of Field Marshal Count von Seckendorff , mostly edited from unprinted news, 4 volumes, [Leipzig] 1792–1794 ( Friedrich Heinrich von Seckendorff )
• Rules of life with experiences from life documented for young people who want to step into the bigger world , also now and then for adults who need or can tolerate rules, Erlangen 1810, 1816 (30 + 367 pages, in 62 alphabetically ordered chapters)
• Diccionario de las lenguas española y alemana. Dictionary of the German and Spanish language , 3 vol., Hamburg / Nuremberg 1823–1824–1828, 832 + 902 + 936 pages (Dedicated to the later King Ludwig I (Bavaria) . Draws for the completion of the - shorter - German-Spanish part Christian Martin Winterling , available online as a digital copy: http://reader.digitale-sammlungen.de/resolve/display/bsb10587878.html )

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Seckendorf-Aberdar, Theresius Graf . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 33. Part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1877, p. 269 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Rechter, Gerhard, "Seckendorff" in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 24 (2010), pp. 115–116 [online version]; URL: http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/ppn118830570.html
• Franz Josef Hausmann , 313. The bilingual lexicography Spanish-German, German-Spanish, in: dictionaries / Dictionaries / Dictionnaires. An international handbook on lexicography , ed. by Franz Josef Hausmann, Oskar Reichmann , Herbert Ernst Wiegand and Ladislav Zgusta , third volume, Berlin, New York 1991, pp. 2987–2991 (here p. 2988)

Web links

• http://thesaurus.cerl.org/record/cnp01174168 (entry in Consortium of European Research Libraries , CERL)