Christian Philipp Spangenberg

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Christian Philipp Spangenberg ( baptized November 13, 1689 in Osterode am Harz ; † 1778 ) was a German mint official.

Life

Spangenberg worked at the Brunswick-Lüneburg mint in Clausthal . 1716 he was Münzwardein , 1725 Master of the Mint and mint director in 1729.

In 1747 he also worked as a mint master in Friedberg .

In 1751 Spangenberg was released and arrested. Until the beginning of 1753, the Clausthal Mint was operated by two commissaries, which is why the coins of this period bear a C. Subsequently, the previous Münzwardein Johann Wilhelm Schlemm , eldest son of the tithe Schlemm, took over the establishment as mint master.

literature

  • Leonard Forrer: Biographical dictionary of medallists . Vol. 5, London 1912, p. 580 ( digitized version ).
  • Herbert Lommatzsch: career and fall of the mint director Ch. Ph. Spangenberg . In: Heimatblätter for the south-western edge of the Harz 28/1972, pp. 29–36

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. o. V .: Christian Philipp Spangenberg in the family database of the Verein für Computergenealogie
  2. ^ Henning Calvör : Acta Historico-Chronologico-Mechanica circa metallurgiam in Hercynia superiori. Or historical-chronological information and theoretical and practical description of mechanical engineering, and the auxiliaries in mining on the Oberharze, in particular the machinery and auxiliaries by which mining is promoted, such as mine sheaths, shaft and pit construction, of Drilling and shooting, of the machines and devices to bring the mined ore to the surface, of the machines by which the ore is turned into sand, or of puching works and puching, of the machines in the smelter, of the ores, silver, Bley To smelt solder and copper, and from the entire smelter work one after the other, from the mint machines to burn the silver finely and to coin it into money. In the publishing house of the Princely Waysenhaus bookstore, Braunschweig 1763, p. 265; Digitized via Google books