Vexillology

Vexillology (lat. vexillum = flag -logy of ancient Greek λόγος lógos = teaching), also flag flags customer or client, is the study of flags and flag beings. The vexillology is a very young science; the term was coined in 1959 by Whitney Smith, founder of the Flag Research Center and publisher of the Flag Bulletin.

Basis

It arose from a branch of Heraldry ( heraldry ) and deals with the history of the flag system, the design and production of flags, with their meaning, statements and associated emotions and their use. But you also reaches over and over again into areas of sociology, mass communication, political science, art history, symbolism, aesthetics, and others. This is the Vexillology as an auxiliary science. It uses mainly the scientific methodology of history and political science.

Flag or banner

In the use and meaning there are significant differences between the two terms. The Vexillologe describes a flag as a single piece, which is fixed to a pole for carrying troops and acts as a flag. A flag can be replaced as often, and is hoisted on a flagpole.

History

Already in the 14th century flags are described, as in travelogues, such as the Libro do Conoscimiento ( about 1350 ), or coat of arms banner roles and on maps. In the 17th century published reference books with pictures and tables since the 19th century Admiralty flag books. Le Grass wrote in 1858 the first major flag book, the album of the pavilions, guidons et de toutes les flammes Puissances maritimes. Appeared in 1939, the flag book, published by the High Command of the German Navy and edited by Ottfried Neubecker.

Around 1880 they began in the Anglo- Saxon world to deal with the backgrounds of flags, so A. Macgeorge in Flagstaff, Some Accounts of Their History and Uses. As a science, Flag customer finally established Ottfried Neubecker. His scientific work is distributed to different journals.

There are several national flaggenkundliche companies that gather under the umbrella organization FIAV ( Fédération Internationale des Associations Vexillologiques ). The German Society for flag customer has existed since 1995. FIAV is also a member of the Flags of the World, an international association of vexillologists on the Internet that corresponds via a mailing list and operates the largest website on the subject. Every two years the FIAV an international congress for customer flag ( International Congress of Vexillology ICV ). In 2007, he was held in Berlin.

Vexillologists

  • Graham Bartram, chief Vexillologe the Flag Institute
  • William Crampton, founder of the Flag Institute
  • Marc Leepson, author of Flag: An American Biography
  • Lupant Michel, President of the FIAV ( Fédération internationale des associations vexillologiques )
  • Ottfried Neubecker, founder of the German Vexillologe, including Author of banners and flags, in Staackmann fibulae, Leipzig 1939
  • George H. Preble, author of History of the American Flag, 1872
  • Jürgen Rimann, specialist for car flags
  • Rudolf Siegel, author of The Flag, Reimer, Berlin 1912
  • Whitney Smith, founder of the Flag Research Center, coined in 1959 the term " vexillology "
  • Derkwillem Visser, Founder (11 November 1978) and Director of the former Vlaggen Documentatie Centrum Nederland ( VCDN ) (Flag Documentation Center Netherlands) in Amsterdam, Member of the FIAV until his death in 2001.

Vexillographen

  • Emilio Aguinaldo, designer of the flag of the Philippines
  • Luis and Sabino Arana, the designer Ikurriña ( the flag of the Basque Country )
  • Graham Bartram, designer of the flag of Tristan da Cunha and others
  • Manuel Belgrano, designer of the flag of Argentina
  • John Eisemann, designer of the flag of Ohio
  • Robert G. Heft, designer of the 50 -star flag of the United States
  • Francis Hopkinson, alleged designer of the flag of the United States
  • Friedensreich Hundertwasser, the designer Koruflagge
  • Sharif Hussein, designer of the flag of the Arab Revolt
  • Lu Hao -tion, designer of the flag of the Republic of China
  • Fredrik Meltzer, designer of the flag of Norway
  • Raimundo Teixeira Mendes, designer of the flag of Brazil
  • William Porcher Miles, designer of the flag of the Confederate States of America
  • Francisco de Miranda, designer of the flag of Venezuela
  • Theodosia Salome Okoh, the designer of the flag of Ghana
  • Christopher Pratt, designer of the flag of Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Betsy Ross, alleged manufacturer of the first flag of the United States
  • Gerard Slevin, probably European flag
  • Whitney Smith, designer of the flag of Guyana and other flags
  • George Stanley, designer of the flag of Canada
  • Harold Thomas, designer of the flag of the Aboriginal
  • Robert Watt, designer of the flag of Vancouver
  • Zeng Liansong, designer of the flag of the People's Republic of China
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