Friedrich Wilhelm von Eisenberg

Friedrich Wilhelm von Eisenberg (1685–1764), also called Friedrich Wilhelm Baron Reis de 'Eisenberg, was a German riding and stable master who wrote important specialist literature and created remarkable illustrations for it.

Life

He spent his youth as a rider in the service of Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach . Then he lived for six years in Naples , where he was temporarily riding and stable master at the court of the viceroy of Naples , Wirich Philipp von und zu Daun . He then went to Vienna , where he under the stable master of the Riding School , Johann Christoph Regner, Edler von Regenthal , learned and was decisively influenced by this, and where he riding teacher of the future Emperor Franz I was. Von Eisenberg then went to England for a few years, where he published the book The Art of Riding a Horse in 1727 , which became a standard work and appeared in several languages over the decades. Also in England, he made 55 gouaches showing lessons of the high school carried out by Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke . These gouaches are still part of the Wilton House collection today .

Von Eisenberg then returned to the Habsburg lands and headed the Pisa riding school in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany . In 1753 he published in Florence a bilingual (Italian, French) book against the deception of the Roses , which was published posthumously in 1780 by the Saxon riding and stable master Johann Friedrich Rosenzweig in German and with his additions.

Fonts

Description du Manége Moderne, dans sa perfection, expliqué par des leçons necessaires, et representé par des figures exactes, depuis l'assiette de l'homme à cheval jusqu'à l'arrest accompagné aussi de divers mords pour bien brider les chevaux, ecrit et dessiné par le baron d'Eisenberg, et gravé par B. Picart. London, 1727.
Dictionnaire des Termes du manége Moderne, Pour servir de Supplément à l'Art de Monter a Cheval. 1747.
La perfezione ei difetti del cavallo / Antimaquignonage, pour éviter la surprise dans l'emplette des chevaux. Florence, 1753.
- German translation: The Baron von Eisenberg discovered the horse-maker arts to avoid fraud when buying horses, with comments, explanations and additions by Johann Friedrich Rosenzweig . Leipzig 1780.

literature

Georg Wilhelm Schrader : Biographical-literary lexicon of the veterinarians of all times and countries , 1864, p. 117.
Johann Christoph Adelung: Continuation and additions to Christian Gottlieb Joecher's general scholarly lexico, in which the writers of all classes are described according to their most distinguished living conditions and writings. Volume 2, Leipzig, 1787. p. 854.

Individual evidence

↑ Oesterreichisches Nobility Lexicon of the 18th and 19th centuries (supplementary volume) ..., Volume 2, Vienna 1824, p. 418. [1]
^ ADAC travel guide for southern England. Munich, 2007. p. 64.
↑ Dorin Williams: The Classic Riding Master: The Eisenberg Collection in Wilton House, presented and explained by Dorian Williams. Berlin-Hamburg 1980. ISBN 3-489-62232-4
^ Giovanni Battista Tomassini, in the preface to The Art of Riding a Horse, Or Description of Modern Manege: In Its Perfection , Xenophon Press, 2015.

personal data
SURNAME	Eisenberg, Friedrich Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German riding and stable master
DATE OF BIRTH	1685
DATE OF DEATH	1764

[1] Oesterreichisches Nobility Lexicon of the 18th and 19th centuries (supplementary volume) ..., Volume 2, Vienna 1824, p. 418. [1]

[2] ADAC travel guide for southern England. Munich, 2007. p. 64.

[3] Dorin Williams: The Classic Riding Master: The Eisenberg Collection in Wilton House, presented and explained by Dorian Williams. Berlin-Hamburg 1980. ISBN 3-489-62232-4

[4] Giovanni Battista Tomassini, in the preface to The Art of Riding a Horse, Or Description of Modern Manege: In Its Perfection , Xenophon Press, 2015.