Hugo Gerard Ströhl

Hugo Gerard Ströhl, portrait on a graphic advertisement for his studio

H. Ströhl
signature from Heraldic Atlas. Stuttgart 1899.

Hugo Gerard Ströhl (born September 24, 1851 in Wels , † December 7, 1919 in Mödling ) was an Austrian heraldist .

Life

Hugo Gerard Ströhl was born in the Upper Austrian city of Wels in 1851 . As a boy he showed a lot of talent for drawing and was a student at the arts and crafts school of the Austrian Museum for Art and Industry, which later became the University of Applied Arts in Vienna . After graduating from this school, he worked for the satirical weekly newspaper Die Bombe until 1876 . He became a teacher and opened a studio for cabaret and graphics.

In 1890 he published an Austro-Hungarian coat of arms with hundreds of state and municipal coats of arms . Nine years later, in 1899, he published a heraldic atlas, a model book of coats of arms.

Ströhl also became known through his interest in Japan and his publications on the Mon , the ancient Japanese heraldry.

Fonts

• Austro-Hungarian coat of arms roll. Great title after his Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty . Publisher of Anton Schroll & Co., Vienna 1890.
• Freshly brocked Schworzkerschäln. Black and white pictures of funny Schnadahüpfeln from the Austrian Alpine countries . Publishing house Perles, Vienna 1891.
• The coats of arms of the printing industry . Anton Schroll & Co., Vienna 1891.
• Coat of arms and seals of the places in Vorarlberg . In: Adler (ed.): Yearbook of the Heraldic Society "Adler" . NF 3. Vienna 1893, p. 97-114 .
• Coat of arms and flag of Korea . In: Adler (ed.): Yearbook of the Heraldic Society "Adler" . 10, XXIV. Vienna 1893.
• Austro-Hungarian coat of arms roll. The coat of arms of their imperial majesties, the arms of the most illustrious men archduke, the national emblem of Austria and Hungary, the arms of the Crown Lands and the Hungarian Comitate, flags, banners and cockades of both halves of the empire, as well as the emblem of the sovereign Fürstenthumes Liechtenstein . Anton Schroll, Vienna 1890 (1895, 2nd edition 1900).
• The coats of arms of the abbots of the Premonstratensian monasteries Geras and Pernegg . Self-published, Vienna 1895.
• German coat of arms roll. Contains all coats of arms, standards, flags, national colors and cockades of the German Empire, its federal states and ruling dynasties . Julius Hoffmann, Stuttgart 1897 ( digitized [ DjVu ]). Panels shown again: Jürgen Arndt: Coats of arms and flags of the German Empire and its federal states (1871–1918) . 1st edition. Harenberg Kommunikation, Dortmund 1979, ISBN 978-3-921846-81-0 .
• The development of the Austro-Hungarian war and trade flag . In: Adler (ed.): Yearbook of the Heraldic Society "Adler" . IV.14 = 194. Vienna 1897, p. 129-136 .
• The national colors and cocards in Austria and Germany . In: Adler (ed.): Yearbook of the Heraldic Society "Adler" . IV.17 = 197. Vienna 1897, p. 165-172 .
• Heraldic Atlas. A collection of heraldic pattern sheets for artists, traders and friends of heraldry . Stuttgart. Heraldic Atlas . In: Heraldic Series . tape  IV . PHV Verlag, Offenbach 2000, ISBN 3-934743-08-0 (reprint). (reprint: Milano, Edizioni Orsini De Marzo, 2010, ISBN 978-88-7531-074-5 ).
• Contributions to the history of badges. Collected from the works of English heraldists . In: Adler (ed.): Yearbook of the Heraldic Society "Adler" . NF 12. Vienna 1902, p. 75-113 .
• Cities coat of arms of Austria-Hungary . 2nd Edition. Vienna 1904 (adaptation of the 1st edition by Karl Lind ). (reprint: Milano, Edizioni Orsini De Marzo, 2010, ISBN 978-88-7531-077-6 ).
• Nihon moncho. Japanese heraldic book. A handbook for craftspeople and collectors . Anton Schroll, Vienna 1906.
• Coat of arms of the popes. Album Pontificale . Mönchen-Gladbach 1909.
• National colors and cockades. A vademecum for painters, graphic artists, flag manufacturers and decorators . Ernst Morgenstern, Berlin 1910.
• The new Austrian, Hungarian and common coats of arms. Ed. On the basis of the d. highest handwriting from 10th and 11th October 11, 1915, resp. 2. u. March 5, 1916 was introduced . Vienna 1917.

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  Coat of arms of his majesty the emperor ( Franz Joseph I ) and coat of arms of her majesty the empress ( Elisabeth ). Facsimile of a sheet from the Austro-Hungarian coat of arms

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  Large imperial coat of arms of the German Empire , from the German coat of arms roll

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  Small coat of arms of the Austrian states of Austria-Hungary from 1915 , from The new Austrian, Hungarian and common coats of arms

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  Coat of arms of the Kingdom of Siam . Heraldic Atlas

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  Archduchy of Austria ob der Enns , from the Austro-Hungarian coat of arms

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  Maine Coat of Arms . Heraldic Atlas

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  Crown of King Henry IV of England . (1399–1413) from his tomb in St. Thomas Becket's Chapel. (Canterbury Cathedral). Heraldic Atlas. Crowns of rain Fig. 41

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  Imperial Crown . Heraldic Atlas. Crowns of rain Fig. 21

Work

In the St. Karl Borromäuskirche in the Geriatric Center Am Wienerwald , 130 coats of arms of the Viennese guilds were attached to sketches by Hugo Gerard (sic) Ströhl.

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  Alsergrund , design by Ströhl

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Ströhl, Hugo Gerard . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 40th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1880, pp. 68–73 ( digitized version ).
• Ströhl Hugo Gerard. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010,ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5, p. 417 f. (Direct links on p. 417 , p. 418 ).

Web links

Commons : Hugo Gerard Ströhl  - Collection of Images

• Heraldic Atlas v. 1899 (PDF) on Wikimedia Commons
• Literature by and about Hugo Gerard Ströhl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page with many pictures and bibliography by Ströhl

Individual evidence

• Bibliography. FOTW Flags Of The World, accessed May 23, 2009 . 

1. ↑ Dieter Steffmann: The coat of arms of the printing trade. (No longer available online.) Typographer media design, archived from the original on March 10, 2007 ; accessed on May 23, 2009 (selection, see works ). 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.  
2. ^ Austro-Hungarian coat of arms roll. The standard work on state heraldry of the Habsburg Empire. Archiv Verlag, accessed on May 23, 2009 (acquisition of the 2nd edition 1900). 
3. ^ Austro-Hungarian coat of arms roll by Hugo Gerard Ströhl. (No longer available online.) Hot.ee (Elion), archived from the original on April 12, 2009 ; accessed on May 23, 2009 (several images). 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.  
4. ↑ Territories of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire ... taken from the “Oesterreichisch-Ungarische Wappenrolle” by H. Ströhl. Heraldry of the World, accessed on May 23, 2009 (in English, sorted by country).