Konrad Tyroff

Example of a Tyroff coat of arms graphic: Kretschmann coat of arms

Konrad Tyroff (* 30th January 1771 in Nuremberg ; † 30th May 1826 ibid ) was a heraldist , engraver and publisher .

Life

The male Tyroff's and family crests

Tyroff was a member of a family of engravers working in Nuremberg. His father was Hermann Jakob Tyroff (1742–1798). His grandfather Martin Tyroff (1705–1758) had come into the possession of the Weigel'schen Kunsthandlung , the later Tyroff'schen Kunstverlagshandlung, through marriage , in which Konrad Tyroff published various heraldic books. He was married to Margarethe Tyroff (1774-1836). In addition, at the time of his death, Tyroff was director of the coat of arms office and royal Bavarian court agent. In his work he was significantly supported by his brother, probably Ludwig Christof Tyroff (* 1774), who worked in Nuremberg around 1799.

Works

• The four seasons in Stichen , Nuremberg
• Gender and coat of arms descriptions for the Tyroffian new aristocratic coat of arms. 4 volumes, Nuremberg 1791–1805, volume 1 ( books.google.de ).
• Book of arms of the entire nobility of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Volumes 1–9, Verlag des Wappen-, Kunst- und Kommissions-Bureau, Nuremberg (digitized version of the Bavarian State Library).
  • Volume 1, 1818 ( Digitale-sammlungen.de ).
  • Volume 2, 1819 ( Digitale-sammlungen.de ).
  • Volume 3, 1820 ( Digitale-sammlungen.de ).
  • Volume 4, 1821 ( Digitale-sammlungen.de ).
  • Volume 5, 1822 ( Digitale-sammlungen.de ).
  • Volume 6, 1823 ( Digitale-sammlungen.de ).
  • Volume 7, 1824 ( Digitale-sammlungen.de ).
  • Volume 8, 1825 ( Digitale-sammlungen.de ).
  • Volume 9, 1826 ( Digitale-sammlungen.de ).
  • Volumes 10–27 appeared after his death, from 1827 to 1872, in the publishing house founded by Konrad Tyroff.
• Book of arms of the cities in the Kingdom of Bavaria. Volume 1 ( books.google.de ).
• New aristocratic coat of arms book. 3 volumes, Nuremberg 1823.
• Book of Arms of the Prussian Monarchy . 3 volumes, Nuremberg 1826–1836 (volumes 2 and 3 were published posthumously ) volume 2 ( books.google.de ), volume 6 ( books.google.de ), volume 7 ( books.google.de ), volume 9 ( books .google.de ).

literature

• Erika Bosl: Tyroff, Konrad. In: Karl Bosl : Bosls Bavarian Biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, p. 792 ( uni-regensburg.de ).
• Georg Christoph Hamberger , Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland. 5th edition, Volume 21, Meyer, Lemgo 1827.
• Georg Kaspar Nagler : Tyroff, Conrad . In: New General Artist Lexicon ... Volume 19 : Torre, G.-Veiss, R . EA Fleischmann, Munich 1849, p. 178 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Paul Johannes Rée :  Tyroff . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, p. 56.
• Fritz Traugott Schulz : Tyroff . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 33 : Theodotos vacation . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1939, p. 514-515 .

Web links

Commons : Konrad Tyroff  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Tyroff, Konrad on CERL Thesaurus
• Literature by and about Konrad Tyroff in the catalog of the German National Library
• Konrad Tyroff half-length portrait in profile of Christoph Wilhelm Bock on portrait index
• Tyroff's heraldic books with Bernhard Peter