Adalbert Král from Dobrá Voda
Adalbert Král von Dobrá Voda ( Czech Vojtěch Král z Dobré Vody , born April 20, 1844 in Wichstadtl , † July 6, 1913 in Wawřinetz / Vavřinec near Melnik ) was a Bohemian heraldry .
Life
Adalbert came from an old Vladiken family inherited from Dobrá Voda near Hořitz . His father was a kk customs collector. He studied accounting at the secondary school in Prague . In 1869 he founded the Sokol gymnastics team in Beneschau . From 1871 he was an accountant at the Linz – Budweiser Railway in Prague and from 1878 a technical officer in the hydraulic engineering department of the state committee in the Kingdom of Bohemia .
plant
As an enthusiastic heraldist, he left a collection of around 60,000 coats of arms and 7,000 seals from the countries of the Bohemian crown . His heraldica , written in Czech , contains introductions to heraldry and the genealogies of the Bohemian nobility, as well as a catalog of coats of arms arranged according to the shield images.
- Heraldika, Souhrn pravidel, předpisů a zvyklostí znakových , 1900
- The nobility of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia , 1904
- various coat of arms publications in the journal Časopis přátel starožitností českých v Prize
literature
- Hunter: Král von Dobrá Voda, Adalbert. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1969, p. 197 f. (Direct links on p. 197 , p. 198 ).
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SURNAME | Král, Adalbert von Dobrá Voda |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Král z Dobré Vody, Vojtěch (Czech) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | bohemian heraldist |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 20, 1844 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Wichstadtl |
DATE OF DEATH | July 6, 1913 |
Place of death | Wawřinetz / Vavřinec near Melnik |