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other Catholic parishes; those of St. Martin and of Our Lady.

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Klemens Loffler.

Worndle, Philip von, of Adelsfried and Weier- burg, major of a Tyrole^e rifle-corps, commandant in the mihtia reserve, b. at Hotting-Innsbruck, 9 July, 17,').t; d. at Linz, Austria, 2 August, 1818. He belonged to an old noble family of the Tyrol and was the son of Joseph Anthony Worndle, justice of the peace of Sonnenburg, who was remstated in the nobility in 1763 by Empress Maria Theresa as a reward for liis military and patriotic services. PhiUp von Worndle received the degiee of Doctor of Law at the University of Innsbruck in 1779. At first he was judge of the manor court of the Premonstratensian Abbey of Wilten, then became an advocate. In 1787 he married Elisabeth von Lemnien, by whom he had seven children; in 1800 he married a second wife, Johanna von Lemmen. In 1796 he was the captain of the company raised among those connected with the university which served in the campaign against Lecourbe on the boundary of the Tyrol towards Switzerland and also at Lake Garda. In 1797 he was commander of the reserve of northern Tyrol under General Kerpen in the campaign against Joubert, and as such shared in the victorious but bloody encounter at Springes in which the Tyrolese took part (2 April, 1797). In 1800 he was district military commissioner under Generals Hiller and Jallachich for the upper valley of the Inn. In 1809, under Andreas Hofer, he was T>Tolese under-commissary and head of the national defence for the valley of the Puster. In return for his services he received the TjTolese com- memorative medal and the gold imperial medal. On account of the occupation of the province in 1810 he emigi'ated to .\u.stria; in 1811 he was a member of the district council at Linz in Upper Austria. In 1813 he accompanied, .is provincial commissioner, the imperial troops under General Ismer on the campaign for the Uberation of southern Tyrol from the French. On account of accusations lodged against him by com- missani" Roschmann, Worndle remained in exile from his native country and died in Upper Austria.

Edmunt), grandson of the preceding and son of Johann von Worndle, clerk of the works for the im- perial palace at Vienna, b. 28 July, 1827 ; d. 3 August, 1906. After attending the high-school at Scho.ssen Abbey, he entered the academy of fine arts at Vienna. In 1846 he began the study of landscape painting at the art-school under Profes.sors Thom.as Euder and Franz .Steinfeld and continued under them until 18,53, frequently receiving .academic prizes. At the same time he al.so attended Flihrich's lectures on com- position and the theorj- of style; from this sprang his firm adherence, like that of Joseph Anton Koch, to "historic landscape". In 18.5.5 he went on a journey for study to Egypt and Palestine: this was followed by a residence for two years wHth an imperial pension in Rome and Italy. While in Italy he made large chalk cartoons from his sketches in the Holy Land; the.se were bought by the picture gallery of the city of Hamburg, while a few of his sketches were fini.shed as oil paintings which were bought by Emperor Francis .Joseph I, Cardinal Simor-Grau, the papal nuncio Viale PrelJl, and others. Some of the car- toons were engraved by the arti.st on copper; in 1904 the cartoons were published at Munich as chromos. From 18.58 he lived at Castle Weierburg, and from 1864 at Muhlau near Innsbruck; from 1874 his permanent residence was at Innsbruck. He produced large numbers of ea.sel pictures and others containing large figures, as: "Christ at Jacob's

Well ", owned by the Grand Duke of Weimar; "Sam- son as the Lion-Killer", in the Ferdinandeum at Innsbruck; "Hunting-Scenes" owned by Emperor Francis Joseph. In 1877 he painted a series of Tyro- lean landscapes for the city savings-bank of Inns- bruck; he also painted decorative historical wall- pictures of scenes in the Tyrolese war of liberation in the Hofer-room at Innsbruck, as well as others for the Heart of Jesus chapel completed by his efforts in 1899, in the Ilofer-house called "Sand in Passcier", and landscapes for the corridor of the Kurhaus at Meran. He showed himself to be particularly repre- sentative of the Romantic School in the great series of "Parzival" paintings, in which his brother August had some share, which he was commissioned by the Austrian minister of worship and education to execute for the episcopal seminary for boys called the Vinzen- tinum at Brixen, and which were based on thorough preparatory study of Wolfram von Eschenbach. Lithograpliic copies of this series have been published at Vienna. A second series of paintings, "Walter von der Vogelweide", in the Ferdinandeum at Inns- bruck, was published by himself in Mthograph in 1894. He was the founder and honorary president of the "Society of Ecclesiastical Art of the Tyrol", for many years a member of the board of directors of the art association of the TjtoI, honorary member of the Veterans' Union of Innsbruck, and in 1904 was made a knight of the Francis Jo.seph Order. In 1858 he married Sophie von Attlmayr (d. 1898), by whom he had three sons, Hermann, Heinrich, and Wilhelni.

August, brother of Edmund and son of Johann, b. 22 June, 1829; d. at Vienna, 26 April, 1902. Heat- tended first the school of design of Professor Klieber, then in 1844 the preparatory school of the academy of fine arts, the led ores of Professor Joseph von Fiihrich, and from 1819 Flihrich's classes for advanced pupils. Later he became Flihrich's son-in-law. Through the St. Severinus Artists' Association August sold his first easel picture, "The Little Daughter of Jairus", to Empress Caroline Augusta, his "Three Magi" to the imperial picture-gallery at Vienna. In 1853 he went to Venice and Florence, in 1854 to Rome, where he studied under Cornelius and Overbeck and where he remained until 18.59. While at Rome he painted numerous religious-historical pictures, collaborated on the cartoons executed by Cornelius for the Campo Santo at Berlin, painted a portrait of Pope Pius IX for Emperor Maximihan of Mexico, and made a co])y of Raphael's "Coronation of the Virgin" for the chapel in the house of the Prince Archbishop Cardinal Rau,s- cher in Vienna. After his return to the Tyrol he worked (1861-1868) at Weierburg and Muhlau with his brother on the frescoes of the "Stations of the Cross" for the cemetery of Innsbruck and frescoes for the parish church at Worgl. Under commission of the Archduke Karl Ludwig, Governor of the T\to1, he painted the frescoes in the chapel of the castle of Ambras. He now settled at Vienna, where in 1868 he produced pamtings for the new cathedral of the Vir- gin, and for the Jesuit college on the Freienberg at Linz. In 1869, at the order of the emperor, he exe- cuted a large oil painting, "The Libeialion of Vienna from the Turks"; he al.so in this period painted altar- pictures for Vienna and Slyria, and paintings of the stations of the Cro.ss that were sent to Bohemia and Moravia. In 1S72 he was appointed teacher of free- h.and drawing in the Maria Theresa academy for young noblemen .at Vienna, a position he held until 1898. While here he executed a number of altar paintings that wen) particularly to Bohemia. In 1874 he painted frescoes in the cathedral of Salzburg, in 187.5-76 he pre[)ared the cartoons for the frescoes in mosaic of the newly erected Votive Church at Vienna, and the easel picture. "Battle of Springes", for the Ferdinandeum at Innsbruck; in 1882 he exe- cuted the fresco-painting in the presbytery of the