Siebmachers Wappenbuch

Siebmachers Wappenbuch refers to two heraldic multivolume book series of armorial bearings or coats of arms of the nobility within the Holy Roman Empire including Germany, Austria, Switzerland, etc.).

;The Old Siebmacher The "Alte Siebmacher" was compiled 1605-1806. First two volumes were started by Johann Sibmacher, engraver from Nuremberg. His work was continued to six volumes with additional supplements by Paul Fürst, Wolfgang Gottlieb Fürst, Rudolf Johann Helmers, Christoph Weigel the Elder and Gabriel Nikolaus Raspe. It has also been called "Fürstsches Wappenbuch" or "Weigelsches Wappenbuch".

;The New Siebmacher The "Neuer Siebmacher", "Siebmachers großes und allgemeines Wappenbuch" was compiled 1854-1967 [113 years? Is that a typo?] by Adolf Matthias Hildebrandt, Maximilian Gritzner, and Gustav A Seyler. The "General-Index" of the whole work has been edited by Hanns Jäger-Sunstenau. Later Ottfried Neubecker has published all burgher arms of the Siebmacher without the text as a sort of illustrated glossary according to the charges.

References

*cite book | last=Siebmacher| first=Johann | coauthors=Appuhn, Horst | title=Johann Siebmachers Wappenbuch von 1605 | location=München | edition=Johann Siebmachers Wappenbuch von 1605 | pages=191-192 | publisher=Orbis | year=1999 | isbn=357210050X
*cite book | last=Siebmacher| first=Johann | title=Handbuch der Heraldik: Wappenfibel | location=Neustadt an der Aisch | edition=Nineteenth Edition | publisher=Degener & Co | year=1998 | isbn=3768670147
*cite book | last=Siebmacher | first=Johann | title=Johann Siebmachers Wappen-Buch: Alle 6 Teile mit Anhang, Register und allen Erweiterungen bis zum Abschluss der Stammausgabe von 1772| edition=Faksimile-Nachdruck der 1701/05 bei Rudolph Helmers in Nürnberg erschienenen Ausgabe. | location=München | publisher=Battenberg-Verlag| year=1975 | isbn=3870450983
*cite book | last=Jäger-Sunstenau | first=Hanns | title=General-Index zu den Siebmacherschen Wappenbüchern 1605-1967 | location=Graz | publisher=Akademische Druck und Verlagsanst.| year=1984 | isbn=3201000094
*cite book | last=Neubecker | first=Ottfried | title=Grosses Wappen-Bilder-Lexikon der bürgerlichen Geschlechter Deutschlands, Österreichs und der Schweiz | location=München | publisher=Battenberg | year=1985 | isbn=3870459069

External links

* [http://www.wappenbuch.de On line version of "Johann Siebmachers Wappenbuch von 1605"]
* [http://www.literature.at/webinterface/library/ALO-BOOK_V01?objid=13133 Supplement volume to the New Siebmacher] - "Gründsätze der Wappenkunst verbunden mit einem Handbuch der heraldischen Terminologie" by Maximilian Gritzner
* [http://www.heraldica.org/biblio/annotate.htm#siebmacher Annotated Heraldry Bibliography] by François Velde about Siebmacher
* [http://www.wappenbuch.com Original XVIIth Century B&W version "Johann Siebmachers Wappenbuch". Contains six volumes, 1,200 pages, 15,000 names, completely cross-referenced; thousands of corrections to the original Index.]
* [http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=GermanWappenbuch&so=2&gsfn=&gspl=5028%2CAustria&submit=Search&prox=1&ti=0&gss=angs-g&sx=&offerid=0%3A7858%3A0&gsln= Siebmacher's Wappenbuch at Ancestry.com]