Bow & Bridge

Geissenhof, Franz

1754–1821

As printed

  1. An encyclopedia of the violin (1925)

    GEISSENHOF, FRANZ, Vienna, b. Vils, 1754, d. Vienna, 1821.

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    2. GEDLER, NORBERT, Wurzburg, 1715 to 1723.
    4. GEISSENHOF, FRANZ, Vienna, b. Vils, 1754, d. Vienna, 1821.
    6. GEMUNDER, GEORG, Astoria, Boston, New York, b. Ingelfingen, 1816, d. 1899.

  2. An encyclopedia of the violin (n.d.)

    GEISSENHOF, FRANZ, Vienna, b. Vils, 1754, d. Vienna, 1821.

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    2. GEDLER, NORBERT, Wurzburg, 1715 to 1723.
    4. GEISSENHOF, FRANZ, Vienna, b. Vils, 1754, d. Vienna, 1821.
    6. GEMUNDER, GEORG, Astoria, Boston, New York, b. Ingelfingen, 1816, d. 1899.

Named in 2 books, all printed 1925. Read by software from scans of those pages, not yet checked by a person against the page. Entries from 2 books stand under this name, and the software judged them near-certain the same person. Tell us if that is wrong and we will split the record.

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Record note

Printed in An encyclopedia of the violin (1925); An encyclopedia of the violin (1925); An Encyclopedia of the Violin (1926), and nowhere else on this site: that is the entire basis of this maker’s record. Entries from 2 books stand under this name, and the software judged them near-certain the same person. Tell us if that is wrong and we will split the record. No claim beyond the printed naming is invented here — not established is the accurate word for it, and we want to hear from you if that can change.

What the books say

Places and dates of work
GEISSENHOF, FRANZ, Vienna, b. Vils, 1754, d. Vienna, 1821. reported1
Places and dates of work
GEISSENHOF, FRANZ, Vienna, b. Vils, 1754, d. Vienna, 1821. reported1
Places and dates of work
GEISSENHOF, FRANZ, Vienna, b. Vils, 1754, d. Vienna, 1821. reported1
Born (date and place)
Born 1754. As printed in the cited source: “GEISSENHOF, FRANZ, Vienna, b. Vils, 1754” reported1
Died (date and place)
Died 1821. As printed in the cited source: “GEISSENHOF, FRANZ, Vienna, b. Vils, 1754, d. Vienna, 1821” reported1

How the pages were read

5 of the 5 lines here were read from machine text (software that turns a photo of a page into words), not by a person looking at the page image. 1 of them rests on a section heading above a list of names, not on a trade word printed on its own line: “VIOLIN MAKERS IN EUROPE”.

Notes

  1. Read from machine text (software that turns a photo of a page into words, or a typed transcription), not by a person looking at the page image. ↩

The books behind this record

This record draws on 2 sources, both read from machine text. The count weighs how well each source was read, not just how many are cited. A stack of half-read sources does not outweigh one page read properly.

  1. Alberto Bachmann, An encyclopedia of the violin (1925). archive.org, encyclopediaofvi0000albe_h3k7. https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofvi0000albe_h3k7.machine textcited for 3 linessource record

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  2. Bachmann, Alberto and Ysaye, Eugene, An encyclopedia of the violin (New York, Da Capo Press, n.d.). archive.org, encyclopediaofvi0000bach_r6r5. https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofvi0000bach_r6r5.machine textcited for 1 linesource record

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  3. Alberto Bachmann, An Encyclopedia of the Violin (1925). archive.org, encyclopediaofvi0000albe_u1d5. https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofvi0000albe_u1d5.machine textcited for 1 linesource record

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