Friedrich Heyer von Rosenfeld

Friedrich Heyer von Rosenfeld (born April 13, 1828 in Gießen ; † December 21, 1896 in Vienna ) was an Austrian captain and heraldist and as such was one of the founders of the Heraldic-Genealogical Society Adler .

Life

He belonged to the old Hessian and important noble family, whose origin lies in the 15th century. Friedrich (father) worked as a university bookseller in Giessen. Friedrich Wilhelm (father) was married to Auguste Freiin von Breidenbach zu Breidenstein (mother).

The coat of arms of Friedrich Heyer (son) was: in silver in the foot of the shield a transverse branch with three green leaf stalks and red-seeded and green flared roses grow up on it, the middle one towering over the others. The coat of arms is borrowed from the nobility Heyer (Hayer) von Rosenfeld.

Rosenfeld became known through his collaboration on the coat of arms of the New Johann Siebmacher from 1873 and the design of the crown for King Ferdinand I of Bulgaria .

Fonts

• Small works were Goethe's coat of arms , 1871 and sea flags, 1883
• The national coats of arms of the most famous countries in the world, together with their national flags and cockades, Frankfurt / M., 1895
• The medals and decorations of the k. and k. Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Vienna 1888
• The sea flags, national and provincial flags as well as cockades of all countries, publishing house of the imperial-royal court and state printing company, Vienna, 1883
• The nobility of the Kingdom of Dalmatia, Vienna

estate

• The Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage has owned around 550 titles in the form of 19th century Chinese and Japanese prints from the estate of Friedrich Heyer von Rosenfeld since 1965.
• The heraldic-genealogical library of Friedrich Heyer von Rosenfeld was added to the library of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum as a foundation in 1897 and has since comprised around 2200 volumes.

literature

• Heyer von Rosenfeld Friedrich. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 310.
• Gert Oswald : Lexicon of Heraldry. VEB Bibliographic Institute, Leipzig 1984.
• Biographical lexicon of heraldists as well as sphragistics, vexillologists and insignologists. Edited by von Herold, Association for Heraldry, Genealogy and Allied Sciences . Bauer & Raspe, Neustadt an der Aisch 1992.

Individual evidence

1. ^ New general German nobility lexicon , by Ernst Heinrich Kneschke , published in Leipzig 1861, Verlag Friedrich Voigt.
2. ^ Elisabeth Rücker: The library . In: Bernward Deneke, Rainer Kahsnitz (Ed.): The Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg 1852-1977 . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich; Berlin 1978, p. 566 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Heyer von Rosenfeld in the catalog of the German National Library