Ferdinand Hrdliczka

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Ferdinand Hrdliczka (born October 24, 1860 in Morawetz , Moravia ; † November 23, 1942 in Vienna ) was an Austrian chemist and photo-industrialist, founder and partner of the Herlango and Lainer & Hrdliczka companies.

Career

Ferdinand Hrdliczka learned when Jakub Husník in Prague to light pressure , which was crucial for his later life. In 1883 he established the first collotype printing facility in Vienna. Soon after the establishment of the kk Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt , the director Josef Maria Eder hired him to work there for several years.

In 1893 Hrdliczka founded a factory for celloidin paper and later for other photographic papers, which in 1913 merged with the photographic wholesaler Langer & Co to form the Vereinigte Photographische Industrien Langer & Comp - F.Hrdliczka and in 1915 with the Goldmann camera factory in Vienna under the title Herlango, Aktiengesellschaft für Photographic industry, was united. In 1926, Hrdliczka merged Herlango with the drying board and paper factory Alexander Lainers to form Lainer & Hrdliczka in Vienna. Ferdinand Spinnler, Hrdliczka's grandson, managed the company until his untimely death in 1951. In 1968 the company Lainer & Hrdliczka went out, in 1992 the continued subsidiary Herlango was sold to Niedermeyer AG .

Hrdliczka was a member of the Photographische Gesellschaft in Vienna for 48 years . Ferdinand Hrdliczka was related by marriage to the chemist Victor Alder , Vienna , through his brother, the timber industrialist Max Hrdliczka (founder of Impregna AG, Bystrice pod Hostynem / Moravia) .

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  • The Photographische Gesellschaft in Wien, Photographische Korrenspondenz, 79th Volume No. 1–2, Jan./Febr. 1943
  • "Membership status 1910/11", in: Photographische Korrespondenz, 1911, 57–170; appeared as a separate publication: Die kk Photographische Gesellschaft in Wien. 1861 - 1911, Vienna: Verlag der kk Photographische Gesellschaft, 1911, 95–112, 96
  • Photographic correspondence. Founded in 1864 by Government Councilor Cabinet. Organ of the kk Photographische Gesellschaft in Vienna, […]. Journal for photography and photomechanical processes, with the special assistance of the Hofrat Prof. Dr. JM Eder, […] and other outstanding experts, published by the kk Photographische Gesellschaft in Vienna. Edited by Imperial Council WJ Burger. Fiftieth year. (Nos. 628 - 639 of the whole episode.) […] Vienna
  • Notarial act no. 20 of December 7, 1934 of the notary's office Manfred Kühn, Vienna 7, Schottenfeldg 87/23
  • Festschrift Lainer & Hrdliczka, 120 years of photography
  • Extract from the commercial register Lainer & Hrdliczka, HRA 8488
  • Festschrift 80 years of Herlango, 1858–1938, Dr Ferdinand Kallab
  • Salzburger Nachrichten, 392nd episode, March 24, 1978, Austria's economy in the picture: 120 years of Photo Herlango
  • The above and other documents are in the private archive of Dr Klaus Bernhard, Düsseldorf

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SURNAME Hrdliczka, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian chemist and photo-industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Morawetz , Moravia
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1942
Place of death Vienna