Education
Philipp Sarlay studied at the high school in Klattau and at the Technical School of Prague.
Philipp Sarlay studied at the high school in Klattau and at the Technical School of Prague.
He was a follower of naturopathy, abstainer and vegetarian. Furthermore, he was occupied by studying mathematical phenomena During one year all four children died. One year later Marie died because of scarlatina.
Sarlay married Aloisia Josefa Aicher (* 9 July 1847 in Innsbruck.
† 4 January 1882 in Innsbruck, Tirol). With Aloisia he had three sons, Anton, Ferdinand, Emerich und Leo (* 27 June 1879 in Innsbruck.
† 18 December 1967 in Innsbruck). Emerich and Ferdinand were passionate alpinists and the first ones to reach the peaks of Gamezkogel (30 August 1900), Steinkogel (19 August 1901) and Zuragkogel (21 August 1901) in the Oetz Valley Alps.
As an enthusiastic student he lived the eventful year of 1848.
In 1849 the first experiments on telegraphy started in Austria and in 1849 the Emperor decided to erect a telegraph network covering the whole monarchy. In 1850 Sarlay joined civil service as a telegrapher and served in Oderberg, Gloggnitz and Vienna. In 1856 he was sent to Innsbruck as a telegraph commissar by the Emperor’s request.
In 1870 he took over the position as inspector in Reichenberg and in 1872 the position as principal in Czernowitz.
Among the constructions led by him there are the telegraph lines Lugos to Hermannstadt (1855), Oderberg to Dembica, Dziedzice to Bielitz and Schönbrunn to Troppau (1856). Between 1880 and 1890 Philipp Sarlay managed the agency Fohnsdorfer Kohle.
He lived up to the motto: “Fresh, docile, happy, free” The magazine "Tiroler Technik" ("Tyrolian Technology") by the Tiroler Heimatblätter newspaper publisher named Philipp Sarlay as the first biker of Tyrol when he used his bike on April 24, 1869. One day later he drove the road to Wattens where the vehicle was admired.
In 1885 he was portrayed in the paper of the Dutch Union of Velocipedists as the oldest biker of Austria.
Sarlay also appears under the pseudonym of Yalras, F. Philipp Sarlay received the Order of Franz Joseph Golden Cross of Merit with Crown on 1st.December 1866. The Golden Cross of Merit with Crown is the highest order of all Order of Franz Joseph.
In 1877 member of the Scientific-Medical Club in Innsbruck.