Israel Hönig von Hönigsberg

Is your surname Hönig von Hönigsberg?

Connect to 19 Hönig von Hönigsberg profiles on Geni

Israel Hönig von Hönigsberg's Geni Profile

Share your family tree and photos with the people you know and love

  • Build your family tree online
  • Share photos and videos
  • Smart Matching™ technology
  • Free!

About Israel Hönig von Hönigsberg

https://books.google.com/books?id=IltZAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA117&lpg=PA117&d...

https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/BLK%C3%96:H%C3%B6nig_Edler_von_H%C3%...

Die Grabschriften des Alten Judenfriedhofes in Wien"

Band II- by Dr. Bernhard Wachstein pg. 525, 526 Hönig Kuttenplan

Brother of Adam Albert Hönig (bapt.) = Abraham? Ennobled in 1789. Tobacco trader Austrian tobacco-manufacturer; born at Kuttenplan, Bohemia, Oct., 1724; died at Vienna Jan. 19, 1808. He is noteworthy in the history of the Austrian Jews as the first among them to be ennobled. The son of a poor merchant, he received his early instruction in Bible and Talmud from his father. At the age of thirteen he went to Prague to continue his Talmudic studies, but two years later was obliged to join his father in business. During his business trips in company with his brother Moses he became acquainted with the tobacco industry, which at that time was almost unknown in Austria. In 1752 he was able, with his father and brother, to take over the lease of the tobacco trade of Prague, which lease, under contract with the government, he extended to several Austrian provinces. During the Seven Years' war his firm held the imperial army provision contracts. The empress Maria Theresa rewarded his services by twice granting him letters patent ("Freibriefe"). In conformity with the wish of Emperor Joseph II., Hönig surrendered his contract in 1783, before its expiration, and the emperor then appointed him councilor and "Tabak- und Siegelgefälldirektor," and in the following year "Bankaldirektor." In 1789 the emperor conferred uponhim the patent of hereditary nobility with the title "Edler von Hönigsberg."

Bibliography: Wurzbach, Biog. Lex. des Kaiserthums-Oesterreich, ix. 121 et seq.; Busch, Kalender und Jahrb. für Israeliten auf das Schaltjahr 1848 = 5608, pp. 117 et seq.S. B. Te. http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=880&letter=H

https://garystockbridge617.getarchive.net/media/israel-honig-von-ho...

view all 12

Israel Hönig von Hönigsberg's Timeline

1724
October 30, 1724
Chodová Planá, Tachov District, Plzeň Region, Czechia (Czech Republic)
1740
1740
1754
1754
Plzeňský, Česká republika (Czech Republic)
1756
1756
Kuttenplan, Böhmen
1760
1760
Prague, Czechia (Czech Republic)
1763
1763
Prague, Czech Republic
1808
January 19, 1808
Age 83
Vienna, Austria
????
????
????