Wenzel Edler von Ankerberg

Wenzel Edler von Ankerberg (* 1757 ; † June 27, 1824 in Vienna ) was a chess player , civil servant and numismatist .

Life

Wenzel Edler von Ankerberg was born as Wenzel Epstein. His father was a poor Jew . In 1771 he went to Vienna to study. There he found supporters in some Jews and in the banker Adalbert von Henikstein who enabled him to study medicine . He converted to the Catholic faith and changed his name to Wenzel Ankerberg. He later became the presidential secretary in Innsbruck and then secretary at the Bohemian court chancellery in Vienna. There he distinguished himself by being witty, humorous and knowledgeable. He also showed himself to be a good chess player. He also devoted himself to numismatics: he collected coins and wrote articles for specialist journals, according to Graffer's Conversationsblatt . Because he proved himself as a civil servant, he was appointed to the nobility . He died in Vienna in 1824.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Ankerberg, Wenzel Edler von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 1st part. University book printer L. C. Zamarski (formerly JP Sollinger), Vienna 1856, p. 43 ( digitized version ).
• Ankerberg, Wenzel Edler von. In: Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe (Red.): Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century . Volume 1: A - I. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 34, no. 252.