Christoph Carl Pfeuffer

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Christoph Carl Pfeuffer (born October 29, 1801 in Suhl , Thuringia , † December 24, 1861 in Berlin ) was a German engraver and medalist .

Life

Christoph Carl Pfeuffer was the son of the master carpenter Johann Heinrich Pfeuffer and his wife Barbara Cadarina, née Kreißen.

He worked as a volunteer at the Saxon court engraver Johann Veit Döll , where he developed into a first-class die cutter .

In 1820 Pfeuffer moved to Berlin and started working for Gottfried Bernhard Loos' Berlin medal mint . In 1831 he married the 21-year-old Sabine Tugendreich Marggraff and lost her a year later to childbed fever after the birth of their daughter. Pfeuffer was often ill and remained loyal to Berlin until his death from a lung attack on December 24, 1861. He left two orphaned grandchildren. Pfeuffer was a member of the Berlin Freemasons' lodge at the golden plow . He was buried in the Sophien-Kirchhof in Berlin.

  • 1820: Engraver at the Berlin medal mint Loos
  • 1828: Chef d'atelier at the Berlin medal mint Loos. From 1822 to 1828 around 80,000 medals were made and sold here.
  • 1840: Medalist at the Royal Mint in Berlin .
  • 1842: Royal court and coin medalist.
  • 1845: 1st coin medalist at the Royal Mint in Berlin.

Works (selection)

During his 20 years at the Royal Mint, Pfeuffer also cut the mint dies for many other German states: For Hamburg , Hessen-Kassel , Hohenzollern , Lippe-Detmold , Mecklenburg-Schwerin , Reuss-Obergreiz , Saxony-Meiningen , Saxony-Weimar , Schwarzburg-Sondershausen , Waldeck and Pyrmont .

literature

  • Leonard Forrer : Biographical dictionary of medallists, coin-, gem-, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, etc. ancient and modern vol. 4, Spink & Son, London 1909, pp. 475–476 ( digitized version )
  • Ferdinand Dahl: Catalog for the exhibition Kunstmedals - Medaillenkunst , Part 2. ( Der Steckenreiter. Ancillary hours dedicated to the pleasure of coins. A coin post from the Numismatic Society of Bonner Münzfreunde eV , Volume 87). Numismatic Society Bonner Münzfreunde, Bonn 2013, p. 6 (with 4 images); as (PDF document)
  • Reinhold Zilch : The Berlin Reformation Medal from 1839 as a school prize. The use of the medal in the Kingdom of Prussia, the German Empire, the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. Part 1: The donation of a Reformation medal by the Berlin magistrate in 1839 and the competition between Christoph Carl Pfeuffer and Gottfried Bernhard Loos . Part 2: The distribution of the Berlin Reformation Medal from 1839 and the reallocation of the surplus copies to a school prize for the next 100 years. In: money trend. International magazine for coins and paper money 50 (2018), no. 5, pp. 90–97; H. 9, pp. 104-108.

Individual evidence

  1. Max Bernhart: Medals and Plaques . In: Library for art and antique collectors . tape 1 . Schmidt, Berlin 1920, p. 207 ( online ).
  2. a b Klaus Sommer: The medals of the royal Prussian court medalists Christoph Carl Pfeuffer and Friedrich Wilhelm Kullrich . 1st edition. Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1986, ISBN 3-7648-1721-6 , p. 3 ff .