Matthäus Stegmayer

Matthäus Stegmayer, also Matthias Stegmayer (29 April 1771 – 10 May 1820); the year of death is also given differently as 1810

Life and career

Born in Vienna, Stegmayer was the son of a master tailor and citizen of Vienna and the father of Karl Stegmayer (1800-1862), the author of several montanistic half-timbering but also of stage plays, as well as of the conductor, choirmaster of the Wiener Männergesang-Verein and founder of the Wiener Singakademie Ferdinand Stegmayer (1801-1863), and Wilhelm Stegmayer (* 1805), in his youth a child actor, whose trace was later lost as a first lieutenant in the k.k. Austrian infantry regiment "Herzog von Wellington" No 42.^[2]

Stegmayer was a member of the

Under the name Meyer auf der Stiege Stegmayer is said to have been a member of the literary society Ludlamshöhle founded by Ignaz Franz Castelli.

Further reading

• Wurzbach, Constantin von, ed. (1878). "Stegmayer, Matthäus" . Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich [Biographical Encyclopedia of the Austrian Empire] (in German). Vol. 37. pp. 327–330 – via Wikisource
  .

• ADB:Stegmayer, Matthias (1908), "Egon v. Komorzynski", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 54, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 456–Stegmayer, Matthias
• Ch. Fastl: "Stegmayer Matthäus". In:
  ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5
  , p. 140.