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JOHANN GABRIEL SEIDL

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Poet, author of the present Austrian national hymn, b. at Vienna, 21 June 1804;
d. there, 17 July, 1875. The family of Seidl was of Swiss origin, Johann's
grandparents having settled in Austria. The poet's father is described as an
able lawyer, and his mother as a good housewife. After passing through the
gymnasium with the greatest success, their only son attended the university at
the age of fifteen to devote the then usual two years to philosophy. On the
completion of this period, he applied himself to the study of jurisprudence, but
the early death of his father compelled him to support himself and his mother by
acting as private tutor. Consequently he exchanged jurisprudence for pedagogy,
passed his qualifying examination in this faculty in 1827, and two years later
was appointed to the state gymnasium in Cilli. Before moving thither he married
Therese Schlesinger, who bore him two children. The laudatory necrologies which
a false report of his death evoked both at home and abroad, attracted the
attention of the authorities, so that after eleven happy years at Cilli he had
to return again to Vienna as custodian of the imperial cabinet of medals and
antiques. A little later he was appointed censor of books, an office which he
filled until 1848. He was then elected corresponding, and in 1851 regular,
member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. After his version of the Haschka
national anthem had been declared the authentic text, honors were heaped on the
poet: the knight's cross of the Order of Franz Joseph, medal for art and
science, the post of imperial treasurer (1856), and appointment as ministerial
counsel (1866). In 1871 he received a pension and was simultaneously invested
with the Order of the Iron Crown of the third class; on the occasion of his
seventieth birthday, he received the title and character of an aulic councillor.
The town of Cilli named him an honorary freeman. Shortly afterwards his health
began to fail. His death was characterized by the same piety which had marked
his life. In 1892 the municipal council of Vienna dedicated to him an honorary
grave in the Zentralfriedhof, and at the centenary of his birth a bust and
memorial tablet were unveiled at his former residence in Cilli. Seidl was a very
fruitful poet and author, and the enumeration of his works occupies twenty-five
pages in Godeke's "Grundriss". Only a few, however, have an interest for modern
readers. Of the numerous collections of poems the "Bifolien" are still of
interest, but his novels, sixty in number, are long forgotten. For drama he had
no talent, however much he strove after the palm of dramatic poetry. His best
compositions are his dialectic poems, "Flinserln", of which many have become
real folksongs of Austria. His name is immortally linked with his adaptation of
the Austrian national anthem. As a scholar Seidl was tirelessly active. Still
prized are his collections of legends, and also his contribution to the
"Stizungsberichten der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften", to scientific,
historical, and geographical journals and to the "Zeitschrift fur die
österreichischen Gymnasien", founded in 1850.




SOURCES

GODEKE, Grundriss, LX (1910), 102-30. The most important literature on Seidl are
the writings published on the occasion of the centenary of his birth in
Zeitschr. fur die osterreich, Gymnasien and Grillparzerjahrbuch. His complete
works have been edited by Max (6 vols. 1871-81), WURZBACH (4 vols., 1904), with
biographical introduction, pp. i-lxxx), REKLAM (2 vols., 1906).


ABOUT THIS PAGE

APA citation. Scheid, N. (1912). Johann Gabriel Seidl. In The Catholic
Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13687c.htm

MLA citation. Scheid, Nikolaus. "Johann Gabriel Seidl." The Catholic
Encyclopedia. Vol. 13. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912.
<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13687c.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Joseph E.
O'Connor.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. February 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, D.D.,
Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.

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