Wendelin Boeheim

Wendelin Boeheim (also Böheim, 1832–1900) was an Austrian army officer and weapons historian.

In 1866, he participated in the Bohemian campaign of the Austro-Prussian War in the rank of captain in the imperial infantry regiment Nr.

He retired from military service in 1877 for health reasons.

In 1897, he founded Zeitschrift für historische Waffenkunde, a journal dedicated to the study of historical weapons (now Waffen- und Kostümkunde).

His magnum opus is the Handbuch der Waffenkunde, published in 1890, which became a standard work of reference for the arms and armour of the medieval period.