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- I have no proof that Gabriel Ursenthaler is a member of this family. I fully believe that Ursenthaler is another variation for Rosenthaler and that Gabriel is somehow related to this family either by son or nephew. I do know that Gabriel was a younger brother of Ulrich Ursenthaler. - Jim Thoma
URSCHENTHALER ( or URSENTALER ) , GABRIEL ( Austr. ) Medallist of Hall ( Tyrol ), worked principally at Salzburg , 1521 – 1560 ; died about 1580. He was a brother of the Engraver of Hall, Ulrich Urschenthaler. A document of 1521 reads, “1521, Montag vor St. Margarethen. Ulrich Ursenthaler, Wardein und Münzeisenschneider zu Hall, übernahm durch Contract die Lieferung der Eisen für die Salzburger Münzstätte gegen strickweise Entlohnung und verpflichtet sich, auch seinen Bruder Gabriel Urschenthaler in seiner Kunst zu unterrichten [ 1521, ( 11 July ) Monday before ( the Feast Day of ) St. Margaret ( of Antioch, the traditional first day of harvest for German, Austrian and Swiss farmers ). Ulrich Ursenthaler, Inspector and Mint Engraver at Hall, takes over the delivery of iron for the Salzburger Mint in exchange for a knightly wage and is obliged to teach his brother Gabriel Urschenthaler in his art as well ].” Gabriel U. entered active service at the Salzburg mint in 1526.
Coin dies by G. Urschenthaler for the Salzburg currency of 1551 of Archbishop Ernest, Prince of Bavaria, Count Palatine of the Rhine, are preserved in the Vienna Mint Museum ( Katalog der Münzen- und Medaillen-Stempel-Sammlung des K. K.. Hauptmünzamtes in Wien [ Catalog of the Coin, Medal and Stamp Collection of the Central Office of the Imperial and Royal Mint in Vienna ], 1901 , p. 44, nos. 99-100 )
The Guldengroschen of Matthäus Lang [ Matthäus Cardinal Lang von Wellenburg, 1469 – 1540, the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg, son of a burgher from Augsburg, enemy of the Reformation, and one of the chief ministers of Emperor Charles V ] 1526, which exhibit different workmanship to Ulrich Urschentaler’s dies, may be by Gabriel U., who at the time was still inexperienced. It is almost certain that Gabriel U. cut the dies for the coinage of the Archbishop Ernest of Bavaria, amongst these : Double and Single Ducats, Thalers and Half Thalers, etc.
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