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Roth, Johann Baptist (22.01.1802 - 17.02.1870) |
Medalist and die-engraver. Roth was born in Vienna in 1802 and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts. From 1838 he worked as an engraver's assistant at the k.k. Hauptmünzamt (Imperial an Royal Central Mint) in Vienna. In 1839 he produced medals for the coronation of Ferdinand I in Milan. In 1844 Roth was awarded the "Nischan-el-Iftikhar" Order in diamonds with ribbon and eye for the production of a medal for the return of Syria to the Ottoman Empire. He becomes the first coin engraver in 1858 and receives the Golden Cross of Merit with Crown on his retirement in 1866. His medals include those for the coronation of Emperor Ferdinand I as King of Lombardo-Venetia in Milan in 1838, for the construction of the Emperor Ferdinand's water pipeline in 1840, for the return of Syria to the Ottoman Empire (1841), for the restoration of the spire of St Stephen's in 1843 or for the opening of sections of the railway network (Emperor Ferdinand's Northern Railway, Southern Railway line) in the mid-1840s. Roth died in Vienna in 1870. Lit.: A. Mayr, Kaiser Ferdinand I. (1793-1875) und die Medaille. Die Medaillenproduktion am Hauptmünzamt in Wien zwischen 1835 und 1848 in kunsthistorischem und historischem Kontext, unpubl. phil. Diss. Vienna (2020) pp. 536, 557, 565; E. Fiala - J. Müller - J. Raudnitz, Katalog der Münz- und Medaillenstempelsammlung im Münzkabinett des Kunsthistorischen Museum Wien IV (1906) p. 1325; L. Forrer, Biographical Dictionary of Medallists V (1912) p. 223; B. Koch, Biographische Beiträge zur Geschichte der Wiener Münzstempelschneider und Medailleure, Numismatische Zeitschrift 82, 1967, pp. 53-85. |
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https://d-nb.info/gnd/1028560028 |
VIAF |
http://viaf.org/viaf/284324076 |
Wikidata |
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4398594 |
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