Christian Porschin
Christian Porschin (* before 1691 , † after 1745) was an amber turner master in Königsberg . He belonged to the local paternoster maker guild . Porschin has emerged with a number of technical innovations made from amber . This includes an amber burning mirror, with which, according to a contemporary chronicle, powder could be ignited significantly faster than with conventional glass mirrors, as well as glasses made of amber, which he had previously heated in linseed oil to make it more transparent. These lenses appear to have been commercially successful at times, as they were apparently still being made towards the end of the 18th century.
The small burning mirror (four centimeters in diameter) once kept in Königsberg was burned in the chaos of war in 1944. Another Porschin object, a gold box with an amber rosette, is kept in the Rosenborg Museum in Copenhagen.
literature
The information in this article is taken from the following sources:
- Otto Pelka: Amber. Berlin 1920.
- Karl Andrée: Amber and its importance in the natural sciences and humanities, arts and crafts, technology, industry and trade. Koenigsberg 1937.
- Amber Art Database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Friedrich Samuel Bock: Attempt of an economic natural history of the Kingdom of East and West Prussia. Second volume, Dessau 1783.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Porschin, Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Master amber turner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1691 |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1745 |