- Franz Ignaz von Streber
Franz Ignaz von Streber (
11 February ,1758 –26 April ,1841 ) was a Germannumismatist and theologian from Reisbach,Lower Bavaria .In 1770 he went to the "Kolleg der Bartholomäer" in
Ingolstadt where he began to study Philosophy and Theology, earning the titles Master of Philosophy (1776) and Master of Theology (1779). In 1780 he was appointed Private secretary to Johann Goswin von Widder (1734-1800) inMunich , remaining there for ten year. In 1783 he was made courtchaplain , in 1803 director of the Court chapel, in 1821 auxiliary bishop, in 1822 cathedral provost of Munich andFreising . In 1782 he was appointed curator of the cabinet of coins of the elector, as assistant to the diplomatJohann Casimir Häffelin . Supported by Häffelin and his successors, in 1785 he was appointed Director of the numismatic collection.His work was to unite the
Mannheim or Palatine collection with the Munich or Bavarian collection of theWittelsbach line, which had been in disorder since theThirty Years' War , and to arrange the combined collection in scientific order. On account of the disturbances caused by war he was obliged to carry off and conceal the cabinet of coins five times, each time re-arranging it anew. He wrote a history of the royal Bavarian cabinet of coins, and several treatises on Bavarian and Greek numismatics, most of which appeared in the transactions of theAcademy of Fine Arts Munich , of which institution he became a member in 1822.His nephew,
Franz Seraph Streber , followed him into the same field. Streber died in Munich.References
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