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Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich (English, Biographical Encyclopedia of the Austrian Empire) (abbreviated Wurzbach from the author's surname) is a 60-volume work, edited and published by Constantin von Wurzbach, containing about 24,254 critical biographies of notable personages in every walk of life and from all parts of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy who were born, lived or ...
By the end of the year, Wurzbach left the army and took up an appointment at the Lemberg University library. In 1849 he was appointed librarian in the Ministry of the Interior at Vienna, and subsequently secretary in the Ministry of State. Wurzbach died in Berchtesgaden, Bavaria. He was the father of Alfred von Wurzbach, an art critic.
He was the son of Constantin von Wurzbach. He studied jurisprudence in Vienna and entered the civil service , but resigned in 1876 and devoted himself entirely to the study of art history . [ 1 ] He was art critic for the Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung from 1881 to 1886.
Alfred Wolfgang Ritter Wurzbach von Tannenberg was the son of Alfred von Wurzbach and Eugenie v. Wurzbach, the daughter of the banker Joseph Lippmann von Lissingen.He was a great-grandson of the Ljubljana lawyer Maximilian von Wurzbach, who had been raised to the nobility, and the grandson of the biographical lexicographer Constantin von Wurzbach.
Charles Boehm wrote an unconventional obituary for his late 74-year-old dad Among Robert's quirks was his collection of harmonicas "to prompt his beloved dogs to howl continuously at odd hours of ...
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Her husband remarried within two years, while their son died childless aged 14. [2] [7] [11] She is buried in tomb 21 in the Imperial Crypt in Vienna. The writer Wolf Helmhardt, Baron von Hohberg, then at the beginning of his career, sent to Emperor Ferdinand III a poem written in honour of the late Empress, called "Poem of tears" (de: Klag ...
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