Benedict Drechsler

Benedict Drechsler (born August 1, 1651 in Platten ; † February 16, 1690 in Johanngeorgenstadt ) was a Saxon mountain expert and chemist .

Life

The wood turner from the Erzgebirge was the son of the evangelical schoolmaster and organist Georg Conrad Drechsler (1612–1683) and his wife Susanna geb. Schreyer, the daughter of councilor Hans Schreyer in the Bohemian mountain town of Platten. When he was young, he and his parents were expelled from Catholic Bohemia as an exile . His family settled in Johanngeorgenstadt and was one of the city's founders.

From 1680 to 1684 Drechsler ran the treasure trove along with the Stolln Unexpected luck not far from today's ice rink near Johanngeorgenstadt. At the same time he assumed the Chursachsen treasure trove . The latter mine, however, did not produce any profit at all, but required considerable additional penalties . After his father's death in 1683, he took over the family home at Kärnergasse 218 in Johanngeorgenstadt.

Drechsler not only operated several mines in Johanngeorgenstadt, but also on the Schneeberger Strasse leading from there via the Jägerhaus on Ochsenkopf . Between Ochsenkopf and Morgenleithe he imagined the Erzbaum-Christi mine . There he discovered the Saxon emery , which from then on was preferred to the Spanish, Swedish and English.

Johann Georg Krünitz writes about this in his Economic Encyclopedia : “The loach found in Saxony on the Ochsenkupferwalde near the hunter's house is also used for grinding. One must crush the loach on a thick and smooth plate of cast iron, and with a well-steeled hammer, crush it very finely and rub it finely, sieve it through a pile sieve, and divide it into three sorts by silting it in water, which are sufficient for all kinds of grinding. " ()

His son of the same name became a gold worker and took over the sulfur hut in Lehmergrund .

Individual evidence

^ Johann Christian Engelschall: Description of the Exulanten- and Bergstadt Johann Georgen Stadt, in four parts introducing, I. The Exulanten condition and where it turns. II. The city's cultivation, growth and events that have occurred in it. III. The local mining industry, its origins, finding metals and all the mines. IV. The parish Hammerwerck Wittichsthal, as well as the Upper and Lower Jugel . Pending, Friedrich Lanckischens Erben, 1723 ( google.de [accessed on April 5, 2019]).
↑ Vol. 146, 1827

personal data
SURNAME	Wood turner, Benedict
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Saxon mountain expert and chemist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 1, 1651
PLACE OF BIRTH	plates
DATE OF DEATH	February 16, 1690
Place of death	Johanngeorgenstadt

[1] Johann Christian Engelschall: Description of the Exulanten- and Bergstadt Johann Georgen Stadt, in four parts introducing, I. The Exulanten condition and where it turns. II. The city's cultivation, growth and events that have occurred in it. III. The local mining industry, its origins, finding metals and all the mines. IV. The parish Hammerwerck Wittichsthal, as well as the Upper and Lower Jugel . Pending, Friedrich Lanckischens Erben, 1723 ( google.de [accessed on April 5, 2019]).

[2] Vol. 146, 1827