Biographical dictionary of medallists: coin, gem, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, &c., ancient and modern, with references to their works B. C. 500-A. D. 1900; compiled by L. Forrer ...

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the Austrian court; - Joh. Jakob Geymtiller, banker. From I835
B6hm was engaged at the Vienna Mint, and had to prepare in that
year many dies for the new currency of Ferdinand I. In competition
with other artists he obtained the first Prize for a Two Gulden
piece. In 1836 he was appointed Director of the ' MunzgraveurAkademie' at the Mint. In 1839 his wife died, whose memory
he commemorated by a very pretty medal. Until near his death he
remained Director of the ' Graveurakademie'. In May I865 he
retired on a pension, but died on 15. August of the same year.
LIST OF BOEHM'S MEDALS.
I. Undated (1817). Siegfried Gotthilf Eckhardt, surnamed Koch,
actor (I754-I83I); uniface medallion; - 2. I8I7. Nikolaus Josef
Freiherr v. Jacquin, botanist and chemist (I727-I817); memorial
medal; - 3. I823. Prize Medal of the Agricultural Society of
Vienna; - 4. Prize medal for the Encouragement of the culture
of fruit trees in Styria; - 5. Undated (I824). Prize medal for distinguished Progress, founded by the President of the Academy of
Fine Arts; - 6. I824. Prize medal of the medico-chirurgical Academy in the Josefinum at Vienna; -7. I825. Giovanni Davides,
public singer (1789-185 );- 8. Josefine Fodor (Mainville-Donadio), public singer; - 9. Luigi Lablache, public singer (I794 -1858); - Io. Undated (ab. I825). Angelica Catalani, public
singer (I780-1849); - I. Undated (ab. I825). Thomas Gargallo,
marquis, Italian poet (1760-1843); - I2. Undated (about I825).
Charles Philip Prince Schwarzenberg, field marshal, victor of
Leipzig (I77I-1820); - I3. 1830. Coronation of Crown Prince
Ferdinand as King of Hungary at Pressburg; - 14. o5 years'
Jubilee of the University of Pest; - 15. 183 i. Anton Freiherr von
Baldacci; 50 years' Jubilee; - I6. Giuseppe de' Acerbi, Austrian
consul general in Egypt; uniface cast medallion; - 17. 1832.
Congress of Naturalists in Vienna; - I8. Count Ferdinand Maria
Chotek von Chotkowa and Wognin; - 19. 1833. Restoration or
the Constitution of the State of Krakau; - 20. 1834. Johann
Jakob Freiherr von Geymtiller, banker in Vienna (I760-I834);
21. AndreasJosef Freiherr von Stifft, 50 years' Jubilee ot doctorate
(I760-I836); - 22. I835. Ferdinand I., Homage of the Lower
Austrian States; - 23. Jeton, issued on the same occasion; -
24. Prize medal of the first Austrian Industrial Exhibition; - 25.
Undated (I836). Prize medal of the Academy of decorative Arts;
- 26. 836. Ferdinand I., Coronation as King of Bohemia,
Prague; 27. Jeton, issued on the same occasion; - 28. Maria
Anna, Empress, Coronation at Prague; - 29. Franz Hugo Altgraf
zu Salm-Reifferscheid, naturalist (I776-I836); memorial medal;
-30. I837. Ferdinand I., Transsylvanian Proclamation medal;