Josef von Skribanek

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Josef von Skribaneck

Josef Freiherr von Skribanek , also Skribaneck , (* 1788 in Vienna ; † 29 May 1853 ibid) was an Imperial and Royal Field Marshal lieutenant , long-time director of the Military Geographic Institute , cartographer and copperplate engraver .

biography

Early years

Today's ruins of the Lienzer Klause

Skribanek began his military career on November 12, 1803 as an ex propriis cadet in the Imperial and Royal Navy Artillery. He was appointed ammunitionist in December 1804 and fought in this capacity in 1805 in the defense of Venice and in the naval battle of Rimini, where he was seriously wounded in the right foot. In 1806 he was assigned to the General Staff, partly in the war archives, partly in the geographical field and on February 16, 1809 promoted to lieutenant in the 9th Feldjäger Battalion. As such, he participated in the battles at Boca di Velo, Calliano , Volano , at Wörl and at Bergisel in Tyroltook part. After the end of the war he came to the "Topographical Bureau" and was promoted to first lieutenant in the general staff on July 16, 1813 .

During the campaigns of 1813 and 1814, Skribanek was entrusted with the leadership of the Adjutantur at the General Staff inside and on July 2, 1815, he advanced to the captain . During the campaign of 1815 he was used in the operations office under General Langenau, later he was given the supervision of the drawing office in the presidential office of the Court War Council. In 1820 he was at the reception of Parma , and in 1821 at the General Staff Department of the Occupation Army in Naples .

In the military geography institute

Former Military Geography Institute

The officer was assigned to the Military Geography Institute in Milan in 1822 . In 1821 he created a detailed memorandum on the subject of “Ideas about the establishment of a topographical-lythographical bureau”, in which he emphasized the advantages of lithography because of its low cost and referred to the benefits for the cadastre in Bavaria.

On May 1, 1828 he was appointed director of the topographical bureau and the lithographic institute in Vienna, he was promoted to major on December 4 of that year , and in 1831 received the Commander's Cross of the Constantinian Order of St. George .

On March 17, 1835, the major became lieutenant colonel in the Imperial and Royal General Quartermaster's staff and since 1836 director of the topographical and lithographic establishment in Vienna within the field of military mapping. In this capacity he was raised to the nobility on July 1, 1837, with a diploma dated October 15 of that year.

On July 10, 1838, Skribanek was promoted to colonel in the general quartermaster's staff, leaving his position in the same position. During this time he was honored with the papal order of Christ . In this capacity Skribanek was appointed major general on March 27, 1846 and on April 30, 1849 field marshal lieutenant. Thanks to his efforts, it was possible to unite the most excellent forces of the two institutions, Vienna and Milan, and to bring about the famous establishment of the military-geographic institute that had emerged from it, as well as the renewed establishment of a separate engineer-geographic corps. The institute under his direction received the great medal (Conseilsmedaille) at the great industrial exhibition in London on October 16, 1851, for its outstanding achievements in the field of military maps (recording and detailed maps of the surroundings of Vienna and Italy), with the main part of fame was probably due to its long-term leader.

On December 17, 1851, the director of the Military Geographic Institute became a unanimous member of the Royal Geographic Society of London , of which he had been a corresponding member since 1838. He was named an honorary member of the institute on May 24, 1852. In 1850 he was decorated with the Imperial Russian Order of St. Anne, 1st Class .

On May 12, 1853, Field Marshal Lieutenant Josef von Skribanek retired and on this occasion received the Commander's Cross of the Imperial Austrian Leopold Order as a result of his 50 years of impeccable service . With a diploma dated May 27 of that year, Emperor Franz Joseph I elevated him to the status of hereditary-Austrian baron in accordance with the statutes of the order.

After his death, the blessing took place on June 1st of that year in St. Stephen's Cathedral . The baron was buried in the Sankt Marxer Friedhof .

The general had achieved that the applied special topography achieved a top European reputation for its services.

family

He had two children with his wife Emma. His son August († February 20, 1869 near Lesina) joined the Navy and had a fatal accident as a lieutenant in the sinking of the frigate "Radetzky". His daughter Everidla Karolina married Leopold Maria Graf von Kaunitz in Vienna on July 5, 1884 (born October 11, 1839 in Vienna; † August 2, 1887 there).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Oskar Regele: "Contributions to the history of the state land survey and cartography in Austria up to 1918", Notring Verlag der Scientific Associations Austria, Vienna 1955, p. 68
  2. ↑ Military newspaper No. 45, from Saturday, June 4, 1853, p. 356 f.
  3. ↑ Constantin von Wurzbach: "Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich", 35th part, KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1877, p. 142
  4. ^ Yearbook of the Association for the History of the City of Vienna, volumes 23-27, Verlag des Verein für Geschichte der Stadt Wien, Vienna 1967, p. 237
  5. ↑ Joh. Baptist Schels (Red,): "Austrian military magazine", 1st issue, printed by Anton Strauss's Sel. Witwe, Vienna 1830, p. 104
  6. ^ Franz Sales Kandler: "Mirror of Honor of the Imperial and Royal Austrian Army", Verlag Carl Gerold, Vienna 1831, p. 240
  7. ↑ Military Schematism of the Austrian Empire, KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerey, Vienna 1838, p. 13
  8. ↑ Oesterreichischer Beobachter No. 80, from Saturday, March 21, 1835, p. 391
  9. ↑ Österreichischer Beobachter No. 289, from Monday, October 16, 1837, issue 4, p. 1384
  10. ^ Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: The kk or kuk Generalität 1816–1918, Austrian State Archives, 1907, p. 174
  11. ^ Oesterreichischer Militärfreund 6, No. 45, Vienna 1853, p. 356: In the Nekrolog
  12. ^ Austria: Tagblatt für Handel und Gewerbe, Public Buildings and Means of Transport No. 247, from Tuesday, October 21, 1851, p. 1820
  13. ^ Military Schematism of the Austrian Empire, KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1851, pp. 19, 52
  14. ↑ Military newspaper No. 151, of Thursday, December 18, 1851, p. 607
  15. ^ Communications from K. u. K. Military Geographic Institute, Volumes 1–4, Publishing House KuK Military Geographic Institute, 1881, p. 19
  16. ↑ Dr. Jaromir Hirtenfeld (Hrsg.): "Oesterreichischer Militärfreund: Zeitschrift für militaryische Demokratie", 2nd half of the year, No. 79 to No. 156 (here: No. 110 of September 12, 1850), Verlag Carl Gerold und Sohn, Vienna 1850, P. 498
  17. ↑ J. Hirtenfeld: “Oesterreichischer Militär-Kalender” No. 5, 8th year, Vienna 1854, p. 148 f.
  18. ↑ Kronstädter Zeitung No. 41, from Monday, May 23, 1853, p. 1
  19. ↑ Die Presse No. 138, dated Tuesday, June 14, 1853, p. 2
  20. ^ Baron Johann Franz Kempen von Fichtenstamm (Josef Karl Mayr, ed.): "Diary of the Police Minister Kempen from 1848 to 1859", Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1931, p. 291
  21. ↑ Dr. A. Petermann: "Communications from Justus Perthes' Geographical Institution about important new research in the total area of ​​geography", Volume 3, Verlag Julius Perthes, Gotha 1855, p. 57 f.
  22. ↑ http://dcodriscoll.pbworks.com/w/page/9956132/Kaunitz
personal data
SURNAME Skribanek, Josef von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Skribanek, Josef Freiherr von (full name); Skribaneck
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian officer and cartographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1853
Place of death Vienna