KYSELAK

Joseph Kyselak (1798 - 1831) "was an Austrian civil servant, mountaineer and travel writer. He became famous for his habit to tag his name onto prominent places during his hikes across the Austrian Empire"* and is considered the forerunner of today's taggers.**

 

This tag is placed on one of the two obelisks in Schwarzenbergpark in Neuwaldegg, a part of Hernals, the 17th district of Vienna. However, since Kysalek otherwise never engraved his name, but only painted it, this seems to be a forgery from more recent times.***

 

* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kyselak

** de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kyselak

*** de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzenbergpark

 

 

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