Maximilian Gritzner

Maximilian Gritzner ( born July 29, 1843 in Sorau; † July 10, 1902 in Berlin, full name Adolf Ferdinand Maximilian Gritzner ) was a German heraldry and connoisseur of faleristics, the Order customer. As a privy councilor in Berlin's Interior Ministry, he was responsible for genital and municipal coat of arms in Wilhelmine Prussia.

Bruno Bernhard home called Gritzner the person who set the " definitive terminology of German heraldry " in 1889. Gritzner published in 1893 a manual of Knights and Order of Merit and was a Prussian Herold for the unmasking of several impostors who had ennobled themselves responsible. too drew Gritzner responsible for the revision of several volumes of the Great Coat of Arms book by Johann sieve.

The Gritznerstraße in the Berlin district of Steglitz -Zehlendorf and a school was named after him.

Gritzner was Royal Prussian councilor and first lieutenant out of service. His son Erich Gritzner was a noted German heraldry, archivist and last Royal Saxon Herald Master. Both Gritzner Maximilian and his son Erich Gritzner were members of the fraternity Red Lion Leipzig.

Works (selection)

  • Letter aristocracy in Prussia. In 1873.
  • Chronological matriculation of Brandenburg-Prussian elevations of rank and clemency from 1600 to 1873. Berlin 1874.
  • Collected Bavarian nobility repertory of the last three centuries, according to official sources and compiled. Strong, Görlitz 1880.
  • Prior surveys and grace Acte German princes during the last three centuries. 2 vols, Görlitz 1880/1881.
  • Principles of heraldry, connected to a manual of heraldic terminology. Bauer & Raspe, Nuremberg 1889-1890. (Reprint, under the title Big and general armorial, Bremen, 2012. )
  • Amyntha. A Rhenish Sang. Elischer Nachf., Leipzig 1892.
  • Handbook of heraldic terminology in twelve ( Germanic and Romance ) tongues. Bauer & Raspe, Nuremberg 1890.
  • Manual of Military and Merit of all civilized countries of the world. Reprint Verlag, wood Minden 2000, ISBN 3-8262-0705- X. (Reprint of the edition Leipzig 1893. )
  • Handbook of existing in the German Empire, in Austria-Hungary, Denmark, Sweden and the Baltic provinces of Russia Ladies founder and the rank equal standing charitable institutions, in addition to the religious character of the former. Keller, Frankfurt am Main, 1893.
  • The old Prussian repealed Dom- Kollegiate whose internal constitution and their medals and decorations. Biblio, Osnabrück, 1987, ISBN 3-7648-1073-4.
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