Alois Primisser

Alois Primisser (also Aloys Primisser ; born March 4, 1796 in Innsbruck , † July 25, 1827 in Vienna ) was an Austrian numismatist and museum specialist .

Life

Primisser came from the Primisser family from South Tyrol , attended the Academic Gymnasium in Vienna from 1807 to 1813 before completing his philosophical studies at the University of Vienna from 1814 to 1816 . Through his father, Johann Baptist Primisser , the captain of Ambras Castle , he became familiar with the local collection at an early age and developed an interest in the history. He supported his father in working with the collection, not least in the installation of the collection in 1813 in the Lower Belvedere , where the Ambras collection was transferred as imperial private property in 1806 after the loss of Tyrol in the Napoleonic wars (1805-1814). Therefore, with effect from July 14, 1814, Emperor Franz hired him as an intern at the collection.

After completing his studies on March 12, 1818, Primisser became the third curator at the Imperial and Royal Coin and Antiquities Cabinet , to which the Ambras collection had been incorporated after the death of his father. In the period that followed, he moved the valuable parts of the collection that had remained at Ambras Castle to Vienna and then planned a Tyrol-related collection in the castle from Viennese holdings. In 1818 he gave twice a week lectures on numismatics and archeology in the kk Münz- und Antikenkabinett. With Georg Heinrich Pertz he toured Upper Austria and Carinthia in 1820 , which resulted in a travel report that was printed several times.

Primisser married the painter Julie Mihes, ten years his senior , in Weinhaus near Vienna on September 2, 1822 . After only a few years of marriage, he died of pulmonary consumption , after suffering from a weak constitution since an illness at the age of 18. Together with his father, he rendered outstanding services to the academic preparation of the imperial collections.

A friend and pastor of Primisser was the later Auxiliary Bishop Franz Xaver Zenner , Cassian Primisser his uncle.

meaning

Thanks to Primisser's merit, part of the Ambras collection was returned to Ambras Castle. In 1880, the museum complex of Archduke Ferdinand II , which was already known as a "museum" in the 16th century, was returned to its original purpose, which today makes Ambras Castle Innsbruck the oldest museum in the world. However, not all objects came back to the Museum of the Imperial and Royal Ambras Castle in Tyrol because another part of the collection was brought to the Imperial and Royal Kunsthistorisches Hofmuseum (today: Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien ) on the Ring, which opened in 1891 .

Works (selection)

Primisser published a large number of articles in his short career. He also published:

with Friedrich Heinrich von der Hagen and Johann Gustav Gottlieb Büsching : German Poems of the Middle Ages , 3 volumes, Berlin 1808–1825.
The Imperial and Royal Ambraser Collection , Heubner, Vienna 1819 ( online ).
Travel news about monuments of art and antiquity in the Austrian abbeys and in some other churches in Austria and Carinthia , Vienna 1822.
Overview of the Imperial and Royal Ambraser Collection: With an appendix about the ethnographic collections of clothes and equipment from the South Sea Islands and from Greenland , Wallishauser, Vienna 1825 ( online ).
Peter suchtwirt's works from the 14th centuries in the original language from manuscripts, with an introduction, historical remarks and a dictionary , Wallishauser, Vienna 1827.

literature

Primisser, Aloys . In: Oesterreichische National-Encyklopaedie , Volume 4, Beck, Vienna 1836, p. 292 f.
Joseph Bergmann : The five learned Primissers , Pichler, Vienna 1861, pp. 44–59 ( digitized version ).
Constantin von Wurzbach : Primisser, Alois . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 23rd part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1872, pp. 298–302 ( digitized version ).
Karl Weiß: Primisser, Alois . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 590 f.
E. Scheicher: Primisser, Alois. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 281 f. (Direct links on p. 281 , p. 282 ).

Web links

Alois Primisser in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
Works by and about Alois Primisser in the German Digital Library
Alois Primisser in the digital portrait index

Individual evidence

↑ Constantin von Wurzbach : Mihes, Julie . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 18th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1868, pp. 259–262 ( digitized version ).
↑ An overview can be found in Joseph Bergmann : Die five schehrten Primisser , Pichler, Vienna 1861, pp. 55–59 ( digitized version ). A larger selection at Constantin von Wurzbach : Primisser, Alois . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 23rd part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1872, pp. 299–302 ( digitized version ).

personal data
SURNAME	Primisser, Alois
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Primisser, Aloys
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian numismatist and museum specialist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 4, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH	innsbruck
DATE OF DEATH	July 25, 1827
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Constantin von Wurzbach : Mihes, Julie . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 18th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1868, pp. 259–262 ( digitized version ).

[2] An overview can be found in Joseph Bergmann : Die five schehrten Primisser , Pichler, Vienna 1861, pp. 55–59 ( digitized version ). A larger selection at Constantin von Wurzbach : Primisser, Alois . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 23rd part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1872, pp. 299–302 ( digitized version ).