Johann Riedl

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Johann Riedl (born May 4, 1817 in Kaiserebersdorf ; † September 6, 1870 in Salzburg ) was an officer in the Imperial Army and after retiring as captain 1st class from 1868 to 1870 director of the Carolino Augusteum Municipal Museum or - as it was called at the time - Curator of the Salzburg City Museum.

Life

As the son of a kk artillery officer , Johann Riedl also turned to the officer career . In 1837 he became an ensign in the kuk infantry regiment “Crown Prince Ferdinand of Romania” No. 96 and in 1838 a lieutenant . In 1840 he had to be temporarily decommissioned for the first time due to a brain problem . In the same year he was reactivated, became first lieutenant in 1849 , captain 2nd class in 1859 and shortly afterwards captain 1st class. After his final retirement on September 1, 1866, he lived in Salzburg. During his military career he took part in the campaign to Italy in 1859 and to South Tyrol in 1866 .

Worked at the Carolino Augusteum Municipal Museum

Even during his military service, he showed historical interests, for example by saving files that were rejected from being destroyed. He joined the Society for Regional Studies in Salzburg in 1861. In Salzburg he began to set up a collection of autographs and to collect documents for a Salzburg house chronicle. After his predecessor in office, the museum director Vinzenz Maria Süß , died in May 1868, Riedl was appointed curator of the Salzburg municipal museum by the Salzburg municipal council with effect from September 1, 1868. In this function, he began, together with Messrs. Von Kraus, von Esebek and Schläger, to compile a catalog of the museum's library, which contains more than 20,000 volumes (including copperplate engravings and music), and also changed the arrangement of the exhibits according to cultural and historical aspects and wrote one Museum guide. He also initiated the purchase of Count Ueberacker's weapons collection in Sieghartstein . At the age of 53 and after only two years as a curator, he died of a stroke.

Works

  • Johann Riedl: About the lordly picture galleries of the Archbishopric Salzburg. Communications from the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies , Vol. 2, 1861/62, pp. 191-254.
  • Johann Riedl: Salzburg's newspaper system. Communications from the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies , Vol. 3, 1863, pp. 289–461.
  • Johann Riedl: Marcus Sitticus, Archbishop of Salzburg and his nephew Jakob Hanibal Count von Hohenems. Communications from the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies , Vol. 4, 1864, pp. 250–288.
  • Johann Riedl: Blasius Höfel. Biographical sketch. Communications from the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies , Vol. 4, 1864, pp. 289–304.
  • Johann Riedl: Salzburg's canons. From 1514-1806. Communications from the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies , Vol. 7, 1867, pp. 122–278.
  • Johann Riedl: Brief History of the State of Salzburg (Classic Reprint). Forgotten Books 2018, ISBN 978-1334635823 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museum directors of the Salzburg Museum since 1834
  2. ^ Johann Svoboda: The pupils of the Wiener Neustädter Military Academy from the establishment of the institute to our day. Geitler, Vienna 1870, p. 631.
personal data
SURNAME Riedl, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Director of the Salzburg Museum
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaiserebersdorf
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1870
Place of death Salzburg