!!!Böheim, Wendelin

b. Wiener Neustadt (Lower Austria), Sept. 17, 1832, 
d. Vienna, Nov. 1, 1900, ordnance engineer, officer, journalist, 
museum official. 1859-1865 taught at the Theresianische 
Militaerakademie ( Military Academy.), 1878 curator of the imperial 
collection of arms; in 1880 transferred the Ambras collection to 
Vienna and helped set up the Kunsthistorisches Museum and the Museum 
of Military History; founder of the historical and methodical study of 
arms in Austria.

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Work: Handbuch der Waffenkunde, 1890.

!Literature
G. Buttlar, Wr. Neustadt, %%sup 2/%1993.



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