Wendelin Boeheim, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Wendelin Boeheim

Austrian military historian

Date of Birth: 17-Sep-1832

Place of Birth: Wiener Neustadt, Lower Austria, Austria

Date of Death: 01-Nov-1900

Profession: military historian, university teacher

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Wendelin Boeheim (also Böheim, 1832–1900) was an Austrian army officer and weapons historian. From 1859 to 1865 he was instructor at the Theresian Military Academy.
In 1866, he participated in the Bohemian campaign of the Austro-Prussian War in the rank of captain in the imperial infantry regiment Nr.
4 (Hoch- und Deutschmeister). He retired from military service in 1877 for health reasons. From 1878, he was curator at the imperial weapons collection, in which function he was involved in the establishment of the Kunsthistorisches Museum and Militärhistorisches Museum in Vienna. In 1897, he founded Zeitschrift für historische Waffenkunde, a journal dedicated to the study of historical weapons (now Waffen- und Kostümkunde). His magnum opus is the Handbuch der Waffenkunde, published in 1890, which became a standard work of reference for the arms and armour of the medieval period.

August Steininger (1873–1963)
Description	Austrian painter, watercolourist and printmaker
Date of birth/death	1 January 1873	1963
Location of birth	Vienna
Work location	Vienna, Sankt Veit im Mühlkreis
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