Ignaz and Ferdinand followed their father's calling, and inherited with it the integrity, frugality, and modesty, which had gained him such respect.
Josefa (+ 1861), Andreas, an accountant in one of the public offices, and Anton, a Benedictine priest, 'Father Hermann'-the last two still living (1881). Soon after her death her husband was married again, to Anna Klayenbök, a Viennese, and had a second family of 5 children, of whom 3 grew up, viz. The hard-worked mother of these 14 children lived till 1812. 19, 1794, another boy, Ferdinand then in 96, Karl, then Franz, and lastly, a daughter, Theresia, Sept. Then came a long gap, possibly filled by children who died in infancy-of which they lost nine in all then, Oct. Their first child, Ignaz, was born in 1784. He married early, while still helping his brother, probably in 1783, Elisabeth Vitz, or Fitz, a Silesian, who was in service in Vienna, and was, like Beethoven's mother, a cook. His ability and integrity raised him in 1786 to be parish schoolmaster in the parish of the 'Twelve holy helpers' in the Lichtenthal, a post which he kept till 1817 or 18, when he was appointed to the parish school in the adjoining district of the Rossau, and there he remained till his death, July 9, 1830. His father, Franz, the son of a peasant at Neudorf in Moravia, was born about 1764, studied in Vienna, and in 1784 became assistant to his brother, who kept a school in the Leopoldstadt. There is now a gray marble tablet over the door, with the words 'Franz Schuberts Geburtshaus' in the centre on the left side a lyre crowned with a star, and on the right a chaplet of leaves containing the words, '31 Jänner 1797.' He came of a country stock, originally belonging to Zukmantel in Austrian Silesia. 31, 1797, in the district called Lichtenthal, at the house which is now numbered 54 of the Nussdorfer Strasse, on the right, going out from Vienna. SCHUBERT, FRANZ PETER, the one great composer native to Vienna, was born Jan.
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