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See also:JOSEPH See also:HILARIUS See also:ECKHEL (1737-1798) , See also:Austrian numismatist, was See also:born at Enzersfeld in See also:lower See also:Austria, 1737 . His See also:father was See also:farm-steward to See also:Count See also:Zinzendorf, and he received his See also:early See also:education at the See also:Jesuits' See also:College, See also:Vienna, where at the See also:age of fourteen he was admitted into the See also:order . He devoted himself to antiquities and See also:numismatics . After being engaged as See also:professor of See also:poetry and See also:rhetoric, first at Steyer and afterwards at Vienna, he was appointed in 1772 keeper of the See also:cabinet of coins at the Jesuits' College, and in the same See also:year he went to See also:Italy for the purpose of See also:personal inspection and study of antiquities and coins . At See also:Florence he was employed to arrange the collection of the See also:grand See also:duke of See also:Tuscany; and the first-fruits of his study of this and other collections appeared in his Numi veteres anecdoti, published in;1995 . On the See also:dissolution of the order of Jesuits in 1473, See also:Eckhel was appointed by the empress Maria See also:Theresa professor of antiquities and numismatics at the university of Vienna, and this See also:post he held for twenty-four years . He was in the following year made keeper of the imperial cabinet of coins, and in 1779 appeared his Catalogus Vindobonensis numorum veterum . Eckhel's See also:great See also:work is the Doctrina numorum veterum, in 8 vols., the first of which was published in 1792, and the last in 1798 . The author's See also:rich learning, comprehensive grasp of his subject, admirable order and precision of statement in this masterpiece See also:drew from See also:Heyne enthusiastic praise, and the See also:acknowledgment that Eckhel, as the See also:Coryphaeus of numismatists, had, out of the See also:mass of previously loose and confused facts, constituted a true See also:science . A See also:volume of Addenda, prepared by Steinbuchel from Eckhel's papers after his See also:death, was. published in 1826 . Among his other See also:works are—Choix:de pierres gravees du Cabinet Imperial See also:des Antiques (1788), a useful school-See also:book on coins entitled Kurzgefasste Anfangsgrunde zur See also:alien Numismatik (1787), of which a See also:French version enlarged by See also:Jacob appeared in 1825, &c . Eckhel died at Vienna on the 16th of May 1798 .
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