Biographical lexicon of the Austrian Empire
The Biographical Lexicon of the Kaiserthums Oesterreich (Abbreviation Wurzbach after the author) is an Austrian national biography in 60 volumes, which was written and published by Constant von Wurzbach between 1856 and 1891 .
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This life's work by Constant von Wurzbach-Tannenberg contains 24,254 biographies of memorable people who were born between 1750 and 1850 in the Austrian crown lands or who lived and worked there. It is therefore a unique collection of biographical data from the Habsburg Empire . According to Wurzbach's own statements, around two thirds of these are said to have been lexically recorded for the first time. Wurzbach stuck to the unified state of 1855 and considered countries that had long since ceased to belong to the Danube Monarchy until the end . Extensive literature references, references to portraits, reproduction of inscriptions on monuments and epitaphs , numerous detailed descriptive and tabular genealogies and blazon of coats of arms among members of the nobility constantly went beyond the given framework. The project, originally conceived in six, then twelve, grew to 60 volumes due to the extensive material. Several different and detailed registers of persons are appended to each volume. Regardless of some shortcomings, the "Wurzbach" still has its place in many well-known libraries at home and abroad as a standard biographical work, mainly because for many of the people it contains no more recent adaptations are available and its author was able to use sources that are no longer available or .are accessible.
Author's closing note
Despite illness and many other difficulties, the work was finally completed on July 3, 1891. So far, no one has managed to complete a comparable work - despite the unstoppable technical progress since then. At the end of the 60th volume, Wurzbach added the following quatrain:
- Thank God, the great work is now over
- It was because I didn't finish it -
- I wrote these sixty volumes all by myself!
- Lexicon-weary rest your hands.
Updates
In 1916, preparatory work began on an expanded new edition of Wurzbach's work, which began as the New Austrian Biography . Were planned as a "Division 1" text volumes with detailed biographies, as "Division 2" a bibliography (published in one volume in 1925) and "Division 3" Biographical land register with short biographies (never released). Nine volumes of "Department 1" appeared as New Austrian Biography, from volume 10 the volumes of this series were then published under the title Great Austrians . The last volume 22 appeared in 1987.
After 1945 the Austrian Academy of Sciences took over the processing of the basic work with short biographies and publishes it continuously as the " Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 " (BLÖ).
See also
Web links
- fully digitized: " ws "
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Biographical lexicon of the Austrian Empire at Austrian Literature Online = “ alo ”;
- ws alo 1st part (1856): A - Blumenthal
- ws alo 2nd part (1857): Bninski - Cordova
- ws alo 3rd part (1858): Coremans - Eger
- ws alo 4th part (1858): Egervári - Foxes
- ws alo 5th part (1859): Füger - Gsellhofer
- ws alo 6th part (1860): Guadagni - Habsburg (Agnes - Ludwig)
- ws alo 7th part (1861): Habsburg (Magdalena - Wilhelmine) - Hartlieb
- ws alo 8th part (1862): Hartmann - Heyser
- ws alo 9th part (1863): Hibler - Hysel
- ws alo 10th part (1863): Jablonowski - Karolina
- ws alo 11th part (1864): Károlyi - Kiwisch and supplements (I. episode)
- ws alo 12th part (1864): Klácel - Korzistka
- ws alo 13th part (1865): Kosarek - Lagkner
- ws alo 14th part (1865): Laicharding - Lenzi and supplements (II. episode)
- ws alo 15th part (1866): Leon - Lomeni
- ws alo 16th part (1867): Londonia - Marlow
- ws alo 17th part (1867): Maroevic - Meszlény
- ws alo 18th part (1868): Metastasio - Molitor
- ws alo 19th part (1868): Moll - Mysliveczek
- ws alo 20th part (1869): Nabielak - Odelga
- ws alo 21st part (1870): O'Donell - Perényi
- ws alo 22nd part (1870): Pergen - Podhradszky and supplements (III. episode)
- ws alo 23rd part (1872): Podlaha - Prokesch-Osten and supplements (IV. episode)
- ws alo 24th part (1872): Prokop - Raschdorf and supplements (5th episode)
- ws alo 25th part (1873): Rasner - Rhederer
- ws alo 26th part (1874): Rhedey - Rosenauer and supplements (VI. episode)
- ws alo 27th part (1874): Rosenberg - Rzikowsky
- ws alo 28th part (1874): Hall - Sawiczewski and supplements (VII. episode)
- ws alo 29th part (1875): Sax - Schimpf
- ws alo 30th part (1875): Schindler - Schmuzer
- ws alo 31st part (1876): Schnabel - Schröter
- ws alo 32nd part (1876): Schrötter - Schwicker
- ws alo 33rd part (1877): Schwarzenberg - Seidl
- ws alo 34th part (1877): Seidl - Sina
- ws alo 35th part (1877): Sinacher - Sonnenthal
- ws alo 36th part (1878): Sonnklar - Stadelmann
- ws alo 37th part (1878): Stadium - Stegmayer
- ws alo 38th part (1879): Stehlik - Stietka
- ws alo 39th part (1879): Stifft - Streel
- ws alo 40th part (1880): Streeruwitz - Suszycki
- ws alo 41st part (1880): Susil - Szeder
- ws alo 42nd part (1881): Szedler - Taaffe
- ws alo 43rd part (1881): Tabacchi - Terklau
- ws alo 44th part (1882): Terlago - Thürmer
- ws alo 45th part (1882): Thugut - Török
- ws alo 46th part (1882): Toffoli - Traubenburg
- ws alo 47th part (1883): Grape field - Trzeschtik
- ws alo 48th part (1883): Trzetrzewinsky - Ullepitsch
- ws alo 49th part (1884): Ullik - Vassimon
- ws alo 50th part (1884): Vastag - Villani
- ws alo 51st part (1885): Villata - Vrbna
- ws alo 52nd part (1885): Vrčevic - Wallner
- ws alo 53rd part (1886): Wallnöfer - Weigelsperg
- ws alo 54th part (1886): Weil - Weninger
- ws alo 55th part (1887): Weninger - Wied
- ws alo 56th part (1888): Wiedemann - Windisch
- ws alo 57th part (1889): Windisch-Grätz - Wolf
- ws alo 58th part (1889): Wolf - Wurmbrand
- ws alo 59th part (1890): Wurmser - Zhuber
- ws alo 60th part (1891): Zichy - Zyka
- Biographical Lexicon of the Austrian Empire, 1856–1891, all volumes, online