Medal for Art and Science (Mecklenburg-Schwerin)
The medal for art and science was donated in gold and silver by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin on February 28, 1859 . The medal could be awarded to all persons for special merits and achievements in the field of art or science.
The medal is a medal with the portrait of the reigning duke looking to the left on the obverse. The words FRIEDRICH FRANZ GROSSHERZOG VON MECKLENBURG SCHWERIN all around . On the back is a closed oak wreath, in the middle of which is written SCIENCE AND ARTS .
The ribbon is light blue with narrow stripes on the inside and red on the outside. The gold medal was worn around the neck and the silver medal on the left breast or through the buttonhole.
According to a decree of the Duke Regent Johann Albrecht on December 8, 1900, the silver medal could also be awarded on the broad red, blue and yellow border of the medal of merit. This type of award was indicated by the additional addition ar B. (on the red ribbon).
carrier
- Friedrich Crull (1822–1911), doctor in Wismar, historian, archivist and historian
- Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch (1801–1883), Grand Ducal Mecklenburg-Schwerin Secret Archives Councilor, founder of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology , Mecklenburg's first monument conservationist
- Paul Mönnich (1855–1943), physicist, painter and photographer, associate professor at the University of Rostock
- Ernst Wachter , actually Wächter, royal court opera singer at the Kgl. Court theater in Dresden
- Alfred von Wolhaben , theater director
literature
- Maximilian Gritzner : Handbook of the knight and merit orders of all civilized states in the world. Leipzig 1893.
- Jörg Nimmergut : Orders and decorations from 1800 to 1945. Munich 1979.
