August Wilhelm Gruneberg

August Wilhelm Grüneberg (born September 30, 1787 in Stettin ; † February 15, 1837 there ) was a German organ builder .

Life

August Wilhelm Grüneberg was the son of the instrument maker George Friedrich Grüneberg (1752–1827). His mother Dorothea (Dora) Christiane, née von Neander, was the widow of the Szczecin food dealer Schommer. The father had moved from Magdeburg to Stettin in 1782 to build an organ there on behalf of Frederick II , and had opened an instrument-making workshop at Domstrasse 24 in Stettin. August Wilhelm Grüneberg, who continued his father's workshop from 1824, received citizenship of the city of Szczecin in 1811.

He was born with Henriette Breslich (1800–1883) married and had three sons and three daughters with her. The two older sons were the chemist and entrepreneur Hermann Grüneberg (1827-1894) and Barnim Grüneberg (1828-1907), who took over his father's workshop and re-established it in 1854 as an organ building company.

Works (selection)

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1824	Pasewalk	Nikolaikirche		2
1832	Ahlbeck	Ev. church				Refurbished by Wilhelm Sauer

literature

• Andreas Dornheim: spirit of research and entrepreneurship. The Cologne chemist and industrialist Hermann Julius Grüneberg (1827–1894). Böhlau, Cologne 2006, ISBN 978-3-412-03006-3 , pp. 19-23.
• Karl Richter: The Green Mountain Organ Building Institute in Stettin. In: Ernst-Otto Denk (Ed.): Viadrus. Homeland book for Bad Freienwalde (Oder) and the surrounding area et Terra Transoderana. Volume 5, Viadrus press, Bad Freienwalde 2013, pp. 75–80.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Carl Friedrich Ferdinand Buckow : The doublet system is not a new invention. In: Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung. No. 42, October 18, 1843, col. 745-747 ( Google Books ).
2. ^ W. Sauer Orgelbau Frankfurt (Oder): Ahlbeck ( Memento from March 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ).