Carl-Alexander von Volborth
Carl-Alexander von Volborth was a German-born American heraldic artist and heraldist.
Born in Berlin-Charlottenburg, Volborth received the Gustaf von Numers Prize 1984 in the XVIth International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences in Helsinki. He was a member of HEROLD, Verein für Heraldik, Genealogie und verwandte Wissenschaften zu Berlin e. V. from 1990 and a member of Académie Internationale d'Héraldique.
Volborth lived and worked in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s. He was a teacher at the Cincinnati art school. Volborth married twice; firstly, in 1942, to Rose Ottilie and a Belgian diplomat, Dr Diana Danys.
Volborth was admitted to the Johanniterorden in 1977. Four years later, he received the accolade as a Knight of Justice in the Order. In 1962, Volborth illustrated and published a roll of arms of the knights of the Order living in North America.Works
- Roll of Arms of Knights of the Bailiwick of Brandenburg of the Chivalric Order of St. John of the Hospital of Jerusalem Called "Johanniter-Orden" Who live in the United States and Canada, 1962
- 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 Poole, Dorset, Blandford Press, 1973, 251 pp.
- Little Manual of Heraldry: A Synoptical Approach
- The Very Dubious Codex Senilski, Homunculus, Wijnegem, 2004
- The Very Peculiar Codex of Pluckingham Court, Homunculus, Wijnegem, 2006
