Josef Pilnáček

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Josef Pilnáček

Josef Pilnacek (* 9 February 1883 in Cerna Hora , † 21st February 1952 in Vienna ) was a from Moravia originating historian , heraldry and genealogist .

Life

Josef Pilnáček received training at the business school in Prerau and then studied at the Agricultural University in Vienna. Then he administered the father's property. In 1912 he became a member of the Heraldic-Genealogical Society Adler in Vienna. After the First World War, in which he served as an officer, he lived with his wife in Vienna. There he intensified his studies on heraldry and genealogy of the Moravian and Silesian families and their residences. The knowledge gained from this led to numerous publications in Czech and German. The scientific advice from the Heraldisch-Genealogische Gesellschaft, which also had a corresponding specialist library, was helpful to him.

Little is known about his origins and family. He is said to have been the youngest of four children of the same name Josef Pilnáček and his wife, a born Přibylová from Jestřebí . Before the outbreak of the First World War he is said to have married a German banker's widow (Mary Mediansky?) Who came from Budapest. He is said to have traveled extensively with her.

After his death in 1952, further publications appeared from his estate, which increased his reputation as a specialist in the historical auxiliary sciences of genealogy and heraldry. In his will, he bequeathed his fortune, an extensive specialist library and the literary estate with the right to license fees to the National Archives in Brno .

Works (selection)

  • Královéhradecké, chrudimské, pražské a jiné rodiny erbovní a měšťanské, 1919
  • Dějiny rodu Pilniaczků z Radostic a svobodnické rodiny Pilniaczků, 1920
  • The former family archive of Boskowitz. In: Adler 1924: pages 150–152, 155 f .; 1927: pages 247-249
  • Paměti městyse Černé Hory, 1926
  • Rodokmen a vývod Tomas Garrigue Masaryka, 1927
  • Genealogy Podstatských z Prusinovic, 1928
  • Dějiny města Blanska a okolních hradů, 1927 ( Monuments of the town of Blansko and the surrounding castles )
  • Novy hrad u Blanska, 1927
  • Stěžejní dílo je “Staromoravští rodové”, 1930
  • The oldest genealogy of the von Studnitz family, Vienna 1933
  • Family chronicle of the von der Dressel family with a contribution to early European heraldry, Vienna 1952
  • Genealogy of the Podstatzky von Prusinowitz family, Podstatzky-Prusinowitz-Thonsern, also counts (since 1714) Podstatzky-Lichtenstein, Baron von Prussinowitz, revised and expanded edition, 1936
  • The oldest genealogy of the Counts of Wilczek, 1936
  • Genealogy Lipovských z Lipovic, 1937
  • Genealogy of the Silesian aristocratic family of Donat von Gross-Polom, 1938
  • 250 let blanenskych zelezaren, 1949 ( 250 years of Blansko iron works )
  • Family history of the Pelka v. Family Borislawitz from Silesia, as well as other Pelka families in the Silesian-Moravian region, 1971
  • Staromoravští rodove, Kremsier 1926; 2nd edition Vienna 1927, reprint Brno 1972
  • Neznámé rody a znaky staré Moravy, 1983
  • Rody starého Slezska ( The families of ancient Silesia ), t. 1–5 (1991–1998, wyd. 1 niepelne 1969–1972), published by the Heraldic Section of the Museum for the Mining and Processing of Gold in Jilove u Prahy
  • Staromoravští rodové, 1996

literature

  • Biographical encyclopedia on the history of the Bohemian countries , edited on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum (Institute) by Ferdinand Seibt , Hans Lemberg , Helmut Slapnicka, Volume III, R. Oldenbourg Verlag Munich 2000, page 220, with further references
  • Adler, Journal of Genealogy and Heraldry 3 (17), I (1953)

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personal data
SURNAME Pilnáček, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Moravian historian, heraldist and genealogist
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Černá Hora
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1952
Place of death Vienna