Very rare medal of Carolus z Brzezie Count Lanckoroński.
Designed by Ludwik Hujer, signed on the obverse.
Obverse: bust facing right, signature L HUJER below
CAROLUS COMES DE BRZEZIE LANKORONSKI
Reverse: inscription in seven lines
LITTERARVM / ET ARTIVM / FAVTORI PRAECLARO / SEDECIM LVSTRIS / PERACTIS / MDCCCXLVIII / MCMXXVIII
Diameter 74 mm, weight 167.93 g
On the website fundacjalanckoronskich.org about Karol z Brzezie, Count Lanckoroński, we can read : " Karol z Brzezie, Count Lanckoroński, born on November 4, 1848 in Vienna, died there on July 15, 1933 (buried in the family tomb at the Hietzing cemetery in Vienna).
He came from a Polish aristocratic family of the Zadora coat of arms, whose roots date back to the 12th century. His father, Count Kazimierz Wincenty (1802-1874), born in Vienna, the son of Count Antoni Józef (1763-1830) and Ludwika née Rzewuska (1776-1839), was a privy court councilor and chamberlain. In 1843 he married Leonia Wanda Potocka (1821-1893), daughter of Leon (1790-1860) and Elżbieta née Gołowinów (1801-1867). After the death of Kazimierz Lanckoroński, Karol's mother married Count Karol Vitzthum von Eckstädt (1819-1895) in Paris in 1875, and settled in the French capital.
In 1857-1858 he attended the Main School (Hauptschule) of Michael Zoller and Franz Aloys Bernard in Vienna. From 1858 he also took drawing lessons from the Viennese orientalist painter Carl Leopold Müller (1834-1892). In 1859-1866 he was a student at the Schottengymnasium, an elite school with a classical profile. On 12 July 1866 he obtained his matriculation certificate there, and on 13 December of that year he enrolled in the Faculty of Law at the University of Vienna. He graduated with a doctorate in both laws, obtained in 1873. He spent "several years of his studies" - as he himself recalled in 1928 - in Paris and London. His intellectual development was significantly influenced by Wilhelm von Hartel (1839-1907), a classical philologist, later Minister of Education in the Austro-Hungarian government. The second personality who undoubtedly influenced Lanckoroński's educational profile and interests was Adolf Exner (1841-1894), a professor of Roman law. His interest in theatre was probably instilled in him by his uncle Count Karol Michał (1799-1863), in the years 1856-1863 the Grand Chamberlain, supervising the imperial art collections, an outstanding connoisseur and lover of theatre, and for many years the director of the Viennese court theatres.
