ECKHEL, JOSEPH HILARIUS Austrian numismatist, born at Enzersfeld, lower Austria, was for over 20 years professor of antiquities and numismatics at the university of Vienna, and keeper of the imperial cabinet of coins. Eckhel's great work is the Doctrine numorum veterum (8 vols., 1792-98). Out of the mass of previously loose and confused facts Eckhel constituted a true science. A volume of Addenda, prepared by Steinbiichel from Eckhel's papers after his death, was published in 1826. He died at Vienna on May 16, 1798.