Schubert’s ancestors

On his father’s side
Caspar Schubert
(1593-1657), Waltersdorf near Mährisch-Altstadt (now Staré Město, Moravia)
           
His son:            Christoph Schubert (1632-1692), Neudorf near Mährisch-Altstadt
           
His son:            Hans Schubert (1678-1760), landlord
           
His son:            Karl Schubert (1723-1787), farmer and local justice, married to Susanne Möck
           
His son:            Franz Theodor Florian (1763-1830)

On his mother’s side
Christophorus Vietz
(* before 1699), blacksmith in Zuckmantel, Silesia
           
His son:            Valentin (1679-1754), locksmith
           
His son:            Franz Johann (1720-1768), gunsmith, married to Maria Elisabeth Riedel
           
His daughter:    Maria Elisabeth Catharina Vietz (1756-1812),
Engelberg, Silesia


Education and early career of Schubert’s father

Franz Theodor Schubert was born in Neudorf in
Moravia and after studying at the Jesuit Gymnasium in Brno (from 1770) he moved to Vienna at the age of 15 (in 1778). There he worked as an assistant in his brother Karl’s school in Leopoldstadt. Relatively soon he moved to an apartment in the suburb of Lichtental, where he was joined by his future wife, Elisabeth Vietzin, at the end of 1784 when she was five months pregnant with their son Ignaz. Their move was possibly motivated by the strict ‘moral’ regulations to which school assistants were subject (‘to be a paragon of good morals throughout his life’) and with which Schubert’s father had evidently not entirely complied.


Wedding of Schubert’s parents on
17 January 1785 (after the birth of their illegitimate son in April 1783)

His twelve older and two younger brothers and sisters:


Franz Ignaz
(* and † 1783, of whom nothing is known)
Ignaz Franz
(1785-1844)
Elisabeth
(1786-1788)
Karl
(1787-1788)
Franziska Magdalena
(* and † 1788)
Franziska Magdalena
(1789-1792)
Franz Karl
(* and † 1790)
Anna Karolina
(* and † 1791)
Petrus
(1792-1793)
Joseph
(1793-1798)
Ferdinand Lukas
(1794-1859)
Franz Karl
(1795-1855)
Franz Peter
Schubert (1797-1828)
Aloisia Magdalena
(* and † 1799)
Maria Theresia
(1801-1878)