Wilczek, Johann Nepomuk, Graf von

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Art--Collectors and collecting
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Discoveries in geography

found: Burg Kreuzenstein an der Donau, 1914, via digitalesammlungen.uni-weimar.de, February 11, 2020:title page (herausgegeben von Alfred Ritter von Walcher, Direktor der Kunstsammlungen des Grafen Wilczek) page 5 (caption of portrait: Graf Hans Wilczek, Burgherr von Kreuzenstein) page 16 (Dr. Johann Nepomuk Graf von Wilczek; restored the ruined castle in the spirit of the Romanesque and Gothic architecture of the structure's origin, beginning in 1879)

found: Wanderungen durch österreichische Ex Libris-Sammlungen, 1920?title page (seltene Ex Libris aus der Sammlung Sr. Exzellenz Graf Wilczek)

found: German Wikipedia, viewed April 21, 2014(Johann Nepomuk Wilczek; Johann Nepomuk Graf Wilczek; Hans Graf Wilczek; born December 7, 1837, in Vienna; died January 27, 1922 in Vienna)

found: Wikipedia, January 24, 2020("Count Johann (Hans) Nepomuk Wilczek (German: Hans Graf Wilczek; 7 December 1837-27 January 1922) was an Austrian Arctic explorer and patron of the arts. He was the main sponsor of the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition in 1872-74 ... From 1875 onwards, Count Wilczek held the title of President of the Austrian Geographical Society in order to promote the construction of weather stations in the Arctic. The Austrian polar station on Jan Mayen Island was built and equipped in 1882 fully at his own costs"; also: member of the Austrian House of Lords, 1861-1918; founder of Gesellschaft der Wiener Kunstfreunde)