Carl Mayer von Mayerfels
Carl Heinrich Otto Joseph Anton Ritter and Edler Mayer von Mayerfels (born November 18, 1825 in Munich ; † February 8, 1883 ibid) was a German heraldist, art historian and researcher. At the beginning of 1864, the royal chamberlain Carl Ritter und Edler von Mayer was granted permission to settle the von Mayerfels title of nobility . Since then, he and his descendants have been allowed to use the name Ritter und Edle Mayer von Mayerfels .
Life
Carl Mayer von Mayerfels was the son of the banker Joseph von Mayer (1779–1861) and Anna von Reichenbach , the daughter of Georg Friedrich von Reichenbach . Mayer von Mayerfels grew up in Munich, where he studied history after graduating from high school. As a student he was in 1844 Renonce and 1847 rezipiertes member of the Corps Suevia Munich . He also received the ribbon of the Grün-Helvetia Zurich (1880) and the Corps Suevia Freiburg (1882). As a lieutenant colonel in the Bavarian Landwehr , he was inspector of the Upper Bavarian 1st Landwehr district. In his main heraldic work in 1857 he wrote himself Carl “Ritter von Mayer” (like his father), but in the text already indicated the direct descent from the noble family of the “Mayer von Mayerfels”, as he later preferred to call himself.
Carl Mayer von Mayerfels was shaped by the need to add as many imaginative additions to his name as possible. For this purpose, he acquired a number of old aristocratic residences, after which he then named himself (for example as "Herr zu Prößels auf Völz", etc.). These included Prösels at Völz, karneid castle if Kardaun, Burgstein in Renon , Hocheppan Castle , the Old Castle on Lake Constance, Schwaneck on the Isar and Niederpöcking on Lake Starnberg. He combined this with an uncommon desire to build, which was reflected in the acquisitions of Schwaneck (1863) and Meersburg (1878) in particular after his father's death. His collections of medieval weapons and armor required a freight train with 30 wagons for the last move from Schwaneck to Meersburg, all of which were fully loaded. In Meersburg he represented the Grand Duchy of Baden on the board of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its surroundings .
He was connected through work with the heraldist Otto Titan von Hefner . He found it difficult to publish his works, which were then realized by Hefner. Often this Mayer tried to spend for his work, which led to violent arguments.
For his work, especially in the field of heraldry , he was awarded a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Freiburg . Orders from European rulers also honored the researcher. The city of Munich named a street after him. With the death of his last daughter Ida von Miller († 1939), the Meersburg, which he had acquired in 1877 from the daughters of Joseph von Laßberg and Jenny von Droste zu Hülshoff , was opened to the public as a museum by his granddaughter.
Honors
Mayer received the following medals:
- Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem , Grand Cross
- Donate first class of the Holy Hospital of St. John in Jerusalem, Rhodes and Malta
- Marians of the Teutonic Order
- Nishan el Iftikhar , Grand Officer
- Order of the Knights of San Marino , Grand Officer
- Order of Christ (Portugal) , commander
- Order of Saint Michael (Bavaria-Kurköln) , knight 1st class
- Golden Ludwig Medal
- Royal Crown Order (Prussia) , Knight
- Order of the Württemberg Crown , knight 1st class
- Grand Ducal Hessian Order of Merit , knight 1st class
- Duke of Saxony-Ernestine House Order , Knight
- Order of Saint Stanislaus , knight
- Gold Civil Merit Medal (San Marino)
- Württemberg gold medal for art and science
- Appointment to the Royal Bavarian Chamberlain
Fonts
- Heraldic ABC book. That is the essence and concept of scientific heraldry, its laws, literature, theory and practice . Leipzig 1857 - Hauptwerk ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- Double eagle and black-red-gold as the coat of arms and colors of the new German Empire. Dedicated to all Germans for the memorable year 1870 , Munich no year.
- The Wittelsbach parent company and coat of arms , Constance 1880.
- The stained glass in the former Hofen monastery, now the summer residence of His Majesty King Karl von Württemberg , in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 11th year 1882, pp. 43–70 ( digitized version ).
literature
- Wolfgang Gottwald: Carl Ritter and Edler Mayer von Mayerfels. Once and Now, yearbook of the Association for Corps Student History Research, special issue 1976, pp. 44–46.
- Hyacinth Holland : Mayer von Mayerfels, Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 132 f.
- Mayer, knights and nobles, Mayer von Mayerfels, knights and nobles . In: Ernst Heinrich Kneschke (Ed.): New general German nobility lexicon . tape 6 . Leipzig 1865, p. 187 ( digitized version in the Google book search).
- Dr. Karl Ritter and Edler Mayer von Mayerfels . Lecture. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings . 13th year 1884, p. 7–13 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Carl Mayer von Mayerfels in the catalog of the German National Library
- Silhouette Mayers (VfcG)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Personal News . In: Allgemeine Zeitung . No. 17 , January 17, 1864, ISSN 0340-1375 , p. 275 .
- ↑ Wolfhard Weber : Reichenbach, Georg Friedrich von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , pp. 302-304 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 178/323; 211/17; 48/387.
- ↑ Harald Derschka : The association for the history of Lake Constance and its surroundings. A look back at one hundred and fifty years of club history 1868–2018. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 136, 2018, pp. 1–303, here: p. 220.
- ↑ Lexikon der Heraldik, Gert Oswald, VEB Bibliografisches Institut Leipzig, 1984.
- ↑ Biography of Carl Mayer von Mayerfels ( Memento of the original from June 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in bodenseebibliotheken.de , accessed on March 21, 2014.
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SURNAME | Mayer von Mayerfels, Carl |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mayer von Mayerfels, Karl; Mayer von Mayerfels, Carl Heinrich Otto Joseph Anton Ritter and Edler (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German heraldist, antiquarian and art historian |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 18, 1825 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
DATE OF DEATH | February 8, 1883 |
Place of death | Munich |