Michael Hermann Ambros

Michael Hermann Ambros was an Austrian publisher and Author of Cantastoria.

Michael Hermann Ambros
Born(1750-10-05)October 5, 1750
Burgeis (Vintschgau) (Südtirol)
DiedJuly 23, 1809(1809-07-23) (aged 58)
Innsbruck
Other namesPseudonym Hans Kaspar
Known forDampfnudel as a writer's reward
Children
  • son: Ferdinand Ambros, Officer, later in the Vienna Hofkriegsbuchhalterei;
  • daughter Aloisia Ludovika, singer at the Burgtheater.
Parents
  • Christian Ambros, Farmer (father)
  • Maria Mailender from Mals (mother)

Biography

Before becoming a journalist, in 1782, Ambros worked as an Italian language master in Vienna and began to edit Bänkellieder (Cantastoria) in Vienna. Until 1787, he edited 11 folios of Bänkellieder speaking of local events in Vienna and are satirizing the cultural struggle of the time, as well as the reforms of Emperor Joseph II.

In 1785 he founded the "Grätzer Zeitung" in Graz. One year later, Ambros set up the liberal "Bauernzeitung", which was shut down in 1795 by the authorities.

Since 1792 he was also a printer and published a variety of other magazines in 1795 and 1796 in Graz, until persecution forced him to retire to Innsbruck, where he ran a coffee house. In May 1798, he was deported from Vienna to his native country of Tyrol because of his highly political speeches made in public places.[1]

In 1799 and again from 1806 to 1809, he took up newspaper editing again.

He died completely impoverished.[2]

References
  1. Tiroler Landesarchiv, Jüngeres Gubernium (JG), Fasc. 3504 1799 Presidential Politica No. 99.Nota Police station at Tiroler Polizeidirektion, 24 May 1798
  2. Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, ; Ambros, Michael Hermann – Consortium of European Research Libraries Thesaurus,


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