Quirin from Leitner

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Quirin Knight von Leitner

Quirin Ritter von Leitner (born June 4, 1834 in Klaj near Niepolomitz, Galicia , † July 23, 1893 in Vienna ) was an Austrian historian and weapons expert .

Life

Quirin von Leitner was born into an Imperial and Royal family of officers and pursued this soldier career himself. In 1848 he came from the Graz cadet company to the Edler von Pokorny Infantry Regiment No. 25, where he was promoted to first lieutenant in 1859 . In the same year he took part in the Austrian campaign against Italy . Subsequently, Leitner was used militarily in many ways, so from 1857 to 1859 with the General Quartermaster's staff , with the border regulation command of the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia , 1859 with the Military Geography Institute , 1861 with the State Description and War History Bureau; In 1866 he was transferred to Boroevic Infantry Regiment No. 51, where he was also promoted to captain .

In the years from 1861 to 1864 Leitner worked on his pictures of memorial sheets from the history of the Imperial and Royal Army from the beginning of the Thirty Years' War to our day , which aroused the emperor's special interest. In 1865 Leitner was awarded the Austrian Decoration for Art and Science ( literis et artibus ) for this work .

In 1865 Quirin von Leitner was commissioned by Emperor Franz Joseph I to work out the fresco program for the hall of fame of the newly built Imperial and Royal Court Weapons Museum (today: Army History Museum ), which was then to be carried out by the history painter Karl von Blaas . After he had presented the program to the imperial satisfaction on September 6, 1865, he began to scientifically rearrange and catalog the collections of the Court Weapons Museum. In the course of this, he separated the collection objects into property of the court (formerly imperial armory and armory or treasury) and property of the military arsenal (commission weapons, loot and gifts) based on the corresponding provenances . This separation into court and state property was subsequently examined by a commission of the War Ministry and recognized as correct. Not least because of these services, Quirin von Leitner was taken over from military service to court service; Furthermore, in 1869 he was given the management of the court weapons museum.

From 1870, Leitner began active journalism: using archival material and comparative studies in other collections, he began to research the attributions and names of the masters. In the winter months of 1872/73 he carried out a reorganization of the arms collection of the civil armory at Am Hof , for which he was awarded the golden Salvator medal. At this time, Leitner also made a contribution to the scientific redesign of the collection in the treasury . From 1873 to 1875 he managed to coordinate all art historical collections, including the holdings at Ambras Castle in Tyrol , into a scientific and administrative whole. This considerable task was completed with a general inventory and reorganization in 1875.

Subsequently, Leitner devoted himself to the publication of the yearbook of the art historical collections of the very highest imperial house , which he founded in 1881. In 1885 he was appointed court advisor, in the same year he also became a member of a committee chaired by Crown Prince Rudolf and Archduke Wilhelm , which was responsible for the formation and further development of the court weapons museum.

In the summer of 1893, the Qurin von Leitner died in Vienna.

Publications (selection)

  • Commemorative sheets from the history of the Imperial and Royal Army from the beginning of the Thirty Years War to our days , 1861–1864
  • The weapons collection of the Austrian imperial family in the KK Artillerie-Arsenal-Museum in Vienna , Vienna, 1866–1870
  • Notes on the memorial sheets from the history of the Imperial and Royal Army , Vienna and Pest, 1868
  • Catalog of the collections of the treasury of the very highest imperial house in the KK Hofburg zu Vienna , Vienna, around 1869
  • The most outstanding works of art in the treasury of the Austrian imperial family , Vienna, Holzhausen, 1870–1873
  • The treasury of the highest imperial family described by Quirin von Leitner. Catalog of the collections of the treasury of the very highest imperial house in the KK Hofburg zu Vienna , Vienna 1878
  • Freydal. Emperor Maximilian I's tournaments and mummings published with the utmost approval of His Majesty the Emperor Franz Joseph I under the direction of the Imperial Chamberlain, Feldzeugmeister Franz Count Folliot de Crenneville , Vienna, Holzhausen, 1880–1882
  • Yearbook of the art historical collections of the highest imperial family , from 1881

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heeresgeschichtliches Museum (Ed.): 100 Years of the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum. Known and unknown about its history . Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna 1991, p. 8 f.
  2. ↑ Permalink German National Library .

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Leitner, Quirin from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leitner, Quirin Ritter von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian officer and historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Klaj , Galicia
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1893
Place of death Vienna