Franz Seraph Streber

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Franz Seraph Streber (26 February 1805 – 21 November 1864) was a German numismatist.

Streber was born in

In 1834 he published the work Numismata nonnulla græca, which corrected false and inexact designations of coins; this was crowned with a prize by the Academy of Paris as was also his important investigation concerning what are called the rainbow patina, which he was the first to recognize as Celtic.^[1] Further papers on Celtic, Greek, and medieval coins, also on archæology, mythology, and the history of art, appeared chiefly in the publications of the Munich Academy. He also drew up a Promemoria that is preserved among the records of the royal cabinet of coins, as to the expenses and the plan of a monumental work covering the entire field of Greek numismatics that was to take the place of the old work by Eckhel and be about one-half larger. Streber was also prominent in politics as a strong supporter of the ecclesiastico-conservative party. He founded the association for a constitutional monarchy and religious freedom, and wrote many political memorials at its request. He died in Munich.

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•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Franz Seraph Streber". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
  • Transactions of the Academy of Munich, I (1865), 2661 sq.;
  • Histor.-politische Blátter, LV (1865), 85 sq.