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Nuremberg diplomat and historian

Hieronymus Wilhelm Ebner von Eschenbach
Portrait engraved by Johann Wilhelm Windter [de]
Born(1673-06-22)22 June 1673
Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire
Died26 January 1752(1752-01-26) (aged 78)
Engelthal, Holy Roman Empire
Other namesHieronymus Guilielmus Ebner ab Eschenbach (Latinised)
Occupations
  • Diplomat
  • scholar
  • historian
  • librarian
Known forBibliotheca Ebneriana
Academic background
Alma materAltdorf University
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Hieronymus Wilhelm Ebner von Eschen­bach (born 22 June 1673, Nuremberg; died 26 January 1752, Engelthal) was a German diplomat, historian, scholar, and founder of the extensive private library Bibliotheca Ebneriana.

Family

The Ebners were one of the oldest patrician families of the imperial city of Nuremberg, first mentioned in a document in 1234. They held seats in the city council since the 14th century and named themselves Eschenbach in the 16th–17th century.

Career

After completing his studies at the University of Altdorf, Ebner embarked on a four-year educational journey across Europe in 1691, visiting the Netherlands, Italy, Austria, Bohemia, and northern Germany. Returning to Nuremberg in 1700, he began preparing for a political career, holding various positions before being appointed to the city council in 1708. In 1718, he assumed the role of Scholarchat, overseeing the schools of the imperial city, a position he held until 1744. Ebner contributed to the cataloging of Nuremberg's public library and imperial city archives, publishing selected documents he deemed of particular significance.

Bibliotheca Ebneriana was built on many smaller collections he had acquired, such as the private library of his uncle Christoph Jacob Imhoff, which he had inherited in 1726. Gottfried Christoph Ranner's five-volume catalogue of Bibliotheca Ebneriana, published in the early-19th century, lists 18,512 titles divided into 11 sections, showing the extensive range and eclectic nature of the collection: encyclopedias; books on the history of Nuremberg, of the Holy Roman Empire, and of Europe; books on Christianity, geography, war history, and fine arts; and literature of Greece and Rome in antiquity, to name a few.

Legacy

After Ebner's death, Wahre Abbildung der sämtlichen Reichskleinodien (transl. 'True Image of All Imperial Regalia'), a work on the imperial treasury with engravings by Johann Adam Delsenbach [de], was published in 1790 under his patronage. The Codex Ebnerianus, a Greek-language illuminated manuscript of the New Testament that is estimated to have been written around 1110, is named after him.

References

  1. ^ Classen, Albrecht (28 February 2004). "Bibliothekskultur Nürnbergs als Grundlage einer Weltkultur. (Rezension über: Renate Jürgensen: Bibliotheca norica. Patrizier und Gelehrtenbibliotheken in Nürnberg zwischen Mittelalter und Aufklärung. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2002.)". IASLonline (in German). ISSN 1612-0442. Archived from the original on 7 August 2019. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
  2. ^ Gieraths, Paul-Gundolf (1959). "Ebner (von Eschenbach): Nürnberger Patriziergeschlecht". Neue Deutsche Biographie 4, S. 263 (in German). OCLC 679380672. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 16 November 2022 – via Deutsche Biographie.
  3. ^ Gesellschaft für Familienforschung in Franken e. V. (2022). "Ebner von Eschenbach, Hieronymus Wilhelm". Album Academicum Altorphinum (in German). Archived from the original on 4 November 2022. Retrieved 5 November 2022.
  4. Ehrenpreis, Stefan (2015). "Empiricism and Image-building: The Creation and Dissemination of Knowledge on Dutch Brazil 1636—1750". In Friedrich, Susanne; Brendeck, Arndt; Ehrenpreis, Stefan (eds.). Transformations of Knowledge in Dutch Expansion. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. p. 88. doi:10.1515/9783110366174. ISBN 978-3-11-037096-6. OCLC 910512571.
  5. Dolezalek, Isabelle (2017). Arabic Script on Christian Kings: Textile Inscriptions on Royal Garments from Norman Sicily. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. p. 55. doi:10.1515/9783110533873. ISBN 9783110532128.
  6. Norman, Jeremy M. "The Codex Ebnerianus and Early Manuscript Scholarship". HistoryofInformation.com. Archived from the original on 28 October 2022. Retrieved 2 November 2022.

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