Carl-Alexander von Volborth (February 21, 1919, Berlin

Berlin

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 - February 25, 2009, Antwerp) was a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

-born American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 heraldic artist

Heraldry

Heraldry is the profession, study, or art of creating, granting, and blazoning arms and ruling on questions of rank or protocol, as exercised by an officer of arms. Heraldry comes from Anglo-Norman herald, from the Germanic compound harja-waldaz, "army commander"...

 and heraldist.

Born in Berlin-Charlottenburg, von Volborth received the Gustaf von Numers Prize 1984 in the XVIth International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences in Helsinki

Helsinki

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. He was a member of HEROLD, Verein für Heraldik, Genealogie und verwandte Wissenschaften zu Berlin e. V. since 1990 and a member of Académie Internationale d'Héraldique

Académie Internationale d'Héraldique

L'Académie Internationale d'Héraldique is a prestigious body that was founded in Paris in 1949 to bring together experts in heraldry representing the various areas of the world. Admission is by election, and the number of active academicians is limited to 75. There is no limit to the number of...

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Works

• Heraldry: Customs, Rules, and Styles Poole, Dorset, New Orchard Editions, 1981, 229 pp.
• The Art of Heraldry Poole, Dorset, Blandford Press, 1984, 224 pp.
• Heraldry of the World (edited by Hubert Chesshyre
  Hubert Chesshyre
  David Hubert Boothby Chesshyre, CVO served for more than forty years as an officer of arms to Queen Elizabeth II.-Family background:...
  
  ) Poole, Dorset, Blandford Press, 1973, 251 pp.
• Little Manual of Heraldry: A Synoptical Approach
• The Very Dubious Codex Senilski (with Marc Van de Cruys), Homunculus, Wijnegem, 2004
• The Very Peculiar Codex of Pluckingham Court, Homunculus, Wijnegem, 2006