Alfred Nagl

Alfred Nagl (born May 21, 1841 in Krems an der Donau ; † October 5, 1921 in Vienna ) was an Austrian numismatist , historian and lawyer.

Alfred Nagl studied law at the University of Vienna and was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD . From 1872 until his retirement in 1909 he worked as court and judge lawyer in Vienna.

In addition to his professional activity, Nagl stood out through numerous publications on monetary and currency history, metrology and arithmetic in antiquity and the Middle Ages. He was Vice President of the Association for Regional Studies of Lower Austria and an honorary member of the Austrian Numismatic Society .

Fonts (selection)

• The Kremser Guldenfund and the beginnings of the gold standard in Austria. In: Leaves of the Association for Regional Studies of Lower Austria. New series Vol. 26, 1892, ZDB -ID 501693-9 , pp. 298–339, ( digital version (PDF; 35.27 MB) ).
• The gold standard and the commercial money calculation in the Middle Ages. Study on the history of the medieval monetary system. In: Numismatic Journal. Vol. 26, 1994, ISSN  0250-7838 , pp. 41-258 .
• The calculation table of the ancients (= meeting reports of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. Philosophical-Historical Class. 177, 5, ZDB -ID 211453-7 ). Hölder (in comm.), Vienna 1914.

literature

• August Loehr : Dr. Alfred Nagl's numismatic life's work. In: Numismatic Journal. Vol. 55 = New Series Vol. 15, 1922, pp. 150–156.
• Bernhard Koch:  Nagl, Alfred. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 7, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 20.

Web links

Wikisource: Alfred Nagl  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Alfred Nagl in the catalog of the German National Library