Johann Mathias von Koller

Baron Johann Mathias von Koller (* 1727/28; † July 25, 1805) was a St. Veit iron merchant and industrialist and builder of the Kulnighof on Christofberg .

Johann Matthias Koller probably settled as an iron merchant in St. Veit at the beginning of the 1840s. In 1749 he received citizenship there. Within a few years he built up a trading company that exported Carinthian iron and steel on a large scale abroad. The later banker and industrialist Thaddäus Reyer worked for him as a traveling salesman and established trade connections in continental Europe, England, America, the Antilles and Mexico. Koller also built a white lead factory in St. Veit - and also a salnite factory . He took on various honorary posts in St. Veit and was mayor several times.

For his achievements and commitment he was raised to the hereditary-Austrian nobility in 1769 with the predicate Edler von Koller and in 1780 appointed to the Imperial and Royal Council . In 1792 he received the title of baron .

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Koller, Johann Mathias Freiherr von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 12th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1864, p. 343 f. ( Digitized version ).

Martin Stermitz: The four main trades in Hüttenberg. Between tradition and innovation . In: Rudolfinum. Yearbook of the State Museum for Carinthia . Klagenfurt 2007, p. 143–159 , 147f ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).

Individual evidence

^ Monthly sheet of the heraldic-genealogical association "Adler" . tape 1-5 . Carl Gerold's Sohn, 1885, p. 190 ( google.de - age at death is given as 78 years. The grave in the St. Veiter cemetery was abandoned in 1881). According to the entry in the death register of the parish St. Veit from Feldkirchen, born and 72 years old, there is no suitable birth entry in Feldkirchen.
↑ Constantin von Wurzbach : Koller, Johann Mathias Freiherr von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 12th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1864, p. 343 ( digitized version ).
^ Martin Stermitz: The four Hüttenberger main trades. Between tradition and innovation . In: Rudolfinum. Yearbook of the State Museum for Carinthia . Klagenfurt 2007, p. 143–159 , 147f ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).

personal data
SURNAME	Koller, Johann Mathias von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Koller, Johann Mathias Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH	1727 or 1728
DATE OF DEATH	July 25, 1805

[1] Monthly sheet of the heraldic-genealogical association "Adler" . tape 1-5 . Carl Gerold's Sohn, 1885, p. 190 ( google.de - age at death is given as 78 years. The grave in the St. Veiter cemetery was abandoned in 1881). According to the entry in the death register of the parish St. Veit from Feldkirchen, born and 72 years old, there is no suitable birth entry in Feldkirchen.

[2] Constantin von Wurzbach : Koller, Johann Mathias Freiherr von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 12th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1864, p. 343 ( digitized version ).

[3] Martin Stermitz: The four Hüttenberger main trades. Between tradition and innovation . In: Rudolfinum. Yearbook of the State Museum for Carinthia . Klagenfurt 2007, p. 143–159 , 147f ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).