Josef Meyr

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Josef Meyr (* 1739 in Bründl near Gratzen ; † 1829 in Winterberg ), also known as Joseph Meyr, was a glass manufacturer in Bohemia , which at the time of his birth belonged to the Holy Roman Empire and in the 19th century to the Austrian Empire . According to other sources, namely according to information from his later heir Wilhelm Kralik von Meyrswalden , Josef Meyr was born in 1731, which would mean that he died at the age of 97, a very old age for the time.

Life

Josef Meyr worked his way up from a simple glass worker to a smelter. From 1765 he worked in the Schwarzthal glassworks at Buchers , which he then leased and the Silberberg glassworks in 1771 and the Sklenené Hute (Bonaventura) glassworks in 1795. In 1801 Josef Meyr and his son Johann Meyr (1775–1841), who had studied in Vienna , eleven kilometers from Winterberg in the Bohemian Forest , founded a sheet glass works around which the Nové Hutě (Kaltenbach) settlement later developed. In 1809 he succeeded for the first time in the production of qualitatively unique crystal glass, which was superior to English goods in terms of hardness and purity. Johannes Jetschgo paid tribute to the art glass manufacturer in 2001 in one of his industrial history works: "Joseph Meyr owes Bohemia its rise to the coveted glassland."

When Count Georg Franz August von Buquoy , who ruled Bucher, no longer extended the lease contract in 1815 in order to run the flourishing glassworks himself, Meyr went to Winterberg and built the Adolfshütte glass factory in the Adolf (Adolfov) district in 1816 , which was later under the Name Meyr's Neffe rose to become the most renowned glass manufacturer in Europe. His son Johann Meyr inherited the glassworks operations at Wilhelm Kralik, the husband of his niece, later known as the Knights of Meyrswalden later ennobled was.

He was married to Anna Maria, nee Reindl, who had nine children.

Web links

Wikisource: BLKÖ: Meyr, Johann (Meyr's Neffe)  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Nekrolog der Deutschen, Volume 19, BF ​​Voigt, 1843, p. 128
  2. ↑ Josef Meyr ( Memento of the original from July 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. in the database of Genealogy Liko-Kralik. Retrieved June 19, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.liko-kralik.at
  3. ↑ Dr. Popper: Johann Meyr . Allgemeine Zeitung München, No. 48, p. 390, of February 18, 1841.
  4. ↑ Johannes Jetschgo: Skoda, Gablonz, Budweiser & Co: new shine on old brands. Austria's industrial neighborhood. Böhlau, 2001. p. 270.
  5. ↑ Constantin von Wurzbach : Biographical Lexicon of the Austrian Empire. Volume: 18, 1868, p. 136
personal data
SURNAME Meyr, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyr, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bohemian glass manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH 1739
PLACE OF BIRTH Bründl near Gratzen
DATE OF DEATH 1829
Place of death Winterberg