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- Title
AUGUST VON SPIESS -- UNDER THE SIGN OF THE DESTINY.
- Authors
ANTONIE, Iuliana
- Abstract
August von Spiess was bom on the 6th of August 1864. He spent his childhood on his mother's estate in the Fiume region, Poland. The mother inspired him with the first feelings of love for nature. He attended junior school in several garrisons, following, as all his family, his father's displacements as an active military officer. Irrespective of the place, the child August preferred to wander in nature, instead of acquiring school knowledge. At the age of eleven he was enrolled in the Military School in Saint Poelten. After leaving the school, he graduated the Theresianum Military Academy in Vienna and was given the rank of second lieutenant. A schoolmate described Transylvania to him as a dream world in terms of relief and abundance of fauna. From this moment on, he did his best to come to Transylvania. He succeeded in being appointed to a regiment in Orastie and then in Sibiu. Here he made it a duty to improve himself in the art of hunting. After the First World War, under favourable circumstances, he was named by the Romanian king Ferdinand I, on the first of July 1921, in the position of manager of the royal hunting. In this position he developed a fruitful activity to organize royal hunting parties, to protect the fauna and also to build roads, huts, shelters and refuges. He proved his literary talent by writing articles inspired by the world of cynegetics and also writing specialized works, which are authentic monographs of the most known hunting fields. During his lifelong efforts, he succeeded to collect a large number of trophies from the hunting areas in Romania and also in the Central and Eastern Europe. His collection of trophies and hunting guns comes to one thousand pieces and this is the base of the Hunting Museum in Sibiu, denominated after his name: August von Spiess.
- Subjects
TRANSYLVANIA (Romania); MILITARY officers; MILITARY education; HUNTING museums; HUNTING
- Publication
Oltenia, Studii si Comunicari Seria Stiintele Naturii, 2018, Vol 34, Issue 2, p233
- ISSN
1454-6914
- Publication type
Article