Albrecht Krafft
Albrecht Krafft (born February 25, 1816 in Vienna ; † May 23, 1847 there ) was an Austrian orientalist and art writer.
His father was the painter Johann Peter Krafft and his sister the painter Marie Krafft .
Albrecht attended the Schottengymnasium , studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna , at the Kk Academy for Oriental Languages and the University of Vienna Oriental languages and literature. In 1845 he went to the Imperial and Royal Court Library as a scriptor . His work on the catalog of oriental manuscripts and the catalog of the gallery in the Belvedere remained unfinished due to his early death. He was a member of the Asian Society in Paris and the Archaeological Society of Athens .
He married Karoline († 1893; the daughter of the court art and music dealer Heinrich Friedrich Müller († 1847) in Vienna). Her son, Guido Krafft , became an agronomist.
Publications
- with Simon Deutsch and Stephan Endlicher : Codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Palatinae Vindobonensis ; 1836
- with Simon Deutsch: The handwritten Hebrew works of the Imperial and Royal Court Library in Vienna ; 1847
- Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Palatinae Vindobonensis: Codices hebraici ; Beck, 1847
- L'école modern de la Galerie de Tableaux Impériale et Royale ; Pichler, 1853
- Catalog de la galerie de tableaux impériale et royale au Belvédère à Vienne ; 1850 ( online )
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Krafft, Albrecht . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 13th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1865, pp. 99–101 ( digitized version ).
- Mazal: Krafft Albrecht. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1969, p. 187.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Krafft, Albrecht |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian orientalist and art writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 25, 1816 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 23, 1847 |
| Place of death | Vienna |