Johann Octavian Salver

Johann Salver Octavian ( born May 19, 1732 in Würzburg, † April 23, 1788 ) was a German genealogist.

Johann Salver Octavian came from his third marriage of the engraver Johann Salver. He attended high school and later the university. He studied law and history, his special interest was in heraldry. He was able to draw his talent due to lack of financial resources do not include in his studies, but he finished at a young age cards. Later he was responsible for the Würzburg history from significant coins and medals collection of the Prince-Bishop Franz Ludwig von Erthal and rose in 1773 to the royal archivist. His main work was published in 1775 with 300 engravings. For him it was not a financial success, but the work is due to their scale and accuracy for today's historical research is important, as it shows, for example, also art monuments that are now destroyed. He dealt, inter alia, to the genealogy and the arms of the Knights of the Canton of construction demand and the epitaphs of the Würzburg bishops and canons.

Bibliography

• Octavian Johann Salver: matriculation and Armorial of the thriving, extinct and pulled away high Ritter members of an immediate freyen Empire knighthood country francs Löbl. Town on the demand for construction. Würzburg in 1785.
• Octavian Johann Salver: samples of high Teütschen Empire nobility or collections of ancient monuments, grave stones, coat of arms, Inn and originals, ud After their true archetype taken, tried with below open Treüe, and Expound by Ancestry trees and other Nachricten and explains Würzburg 1775.