Eduard Holzmair

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Eduard Holzmair (born October 4, 1902 in Vienna ; † December 23, 1971 there ) was an Austrian numismatist and money historian.

biography

After graduating from high school in 1924, Eduard Holzmair studied German language and literature, history, historical auxiliary sciences and art and economic history at the University of Vienna . From 1929 to 1931 he was a member of the Austrian Institute for Historical Research . In 1931 he was at the University of Vienna with the work Eckehart and Tauler. A comparison promotes. From 1931 he worked at the Münzkabinett of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, the federal collection for medals, coins and coins , initially as an assistant, since 1949 as director, since 1952 as director. In 1967 he was also briefly first director of the entire museum before he retired. Holzmair has taught as a private lecturer since 1949, and since 1959 as an associate professor in numismatics and the history of money in the middle and more recent times at the University of Vienna. He was buried at the Dornbacher Friedhof .

literature

  • Eduard Holzmair: My work in the federal collection of medals, coins and money tokens in the years 1929–1967. In: Numismatic Journal. 87/88, 1972, ISSN  0250-7838 , pp. 8-15.
  • Bernhard Koch: Univ.-Prof. Councilor Dr. Eduard Holzmair. In: Numismatic Journal. 87/88, 1972, pp. 3-7 (with list of publications).
  • Fritz Fellner , Doris A. Corradini: Austrian History in the 20th Century. A biographical-bibliographical lexicon (= publications of the Commission for Modern History of Austria. 99). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2006, ISBN 3-205-77476-0 , p. 195.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eduard Holzmair grave site , Vienna, Dornbacher Friedhof, Group 34, No. 33.
personal data
SURNAME Holzmair, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian numismatist and money historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 23rd December 1971
Place of death Vienna