Tobias Balthasar Hold
Tobias Balthasar Hold (* around 1660 in Frankenhausen , Holy Roman Empire ; † April 17, 1721 in Timişoara , Habsburg Monarchy ) was the first German mayor of the city of Timișoara, which now belongs to Romania , between 1717 and 1721 .
Life
origin
Tobias Balthasar Hold was born in Frankenhausen around 1660 - the exact date of birth is unknown. it is also unknown in which Frankenhausen. Anton Petri vacillates between Frankenhausen in Hesse, Saxony, or Thuringia, while William O'Reilly speaks of Frankenhausen in Bavaria and Alex Leeb points out that a place called Frankenhausen in Bavaria does not exist.
First German mayor of Timisoara
On January 1, 1718, the first German magistrate was founded in Temeschburg; a “Raizian” magistrate already existed in the building where the Nikolaus Lenau Lyceum is located today .
Tobias Balthasar Hold, a former military doctor , came to Temeschburg in 1717 and was elected the city's first German mayor in October of the same year. On January 1, 1718 the ecclesiastical and shortly after the secular inauguration took place.
The rebuilding of the Temeschburg fortress, which had been destroyed by the war, began under Tobias Balthasar Hold . In 1720 he was elected mayor of the city a second time and held the office until his death.
See also
literature
- Anton Peter Petri : Biographical Lexicon of the Banater Deutschtums , Marquartstein, 1992, ISBN 3-922046-76-2
Web links
- Jetscha in the Banat , history of the Banat
- The First Settlers Arriving in Timisoara
- William O'Reilly: Divide et impera: Race, Ethnicity and Administration in Early 18 th -Century Habsburg Hungary (PDF; 433 kB) National University of Ireland, Galway.
- Zsolt K. Lengyel: Hungary Yearbook (PDF; 2.1 MB) Verlag Ungarisches Institut, Munich 2004
Individual evidence
- ^ Anton Peter Petri: Biographical Lexicon of the Banater Deutschtums . Marquartstein 1992, ISBN 3-922046-76-2
- ↑ William O'Reilly ( Memento of the original from April 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 433 kB)
- ^ The First Settlers Arriving in Timisoara
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hold, Tobias Balthasar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mayor of Timisoara |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1660 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankenhausen, Holy Roman Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 17, 1721 |
| Place of death | Timișoara |