Christoph Schürer

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Christoph Schürer (* around 1500; † around 1560) was a German scientist and glassmaker .

Life

Christoph Schürer was a son of Asmus Schürer, the 1517-1524 one of the free goods in Burkhardtsgruen in the Barony of Schwarzenberg aufließ. In 1524 Christoph bought an estate in neighboring Albernau to build a glassworks. But since there had been a dispute with the widow of the previous owner of Tettau, he left the place, crossed the border into neighboring Bohemia in 1536 and bought the owl hut near Neudek . It was here that around 1540 he first used cobalt safflor blue in glass production. The "cobalt glass" produced using his method was produced permanently in the Eulenhütte from now on until the beginning of the Thirty Years' War . As a result, this glassworks experienced a significant boom. However, in 1651 it had to give way to the Neuhammer hammer mill built there . From the Eulenhütte, Christoph Schürer and his descendants founded several other glassworks, for example in Schwanenbrückl in the Bohemian Forest , in Reiditz in the Jizera Mountains and in Broumy near Krivoklát.

Christoph Schürer should not be confused with:

  • Christoph Schürer , who took over the glassworks in Crottendorf from 1559 , but had to be discontinued in favor of the new glassworks in Oberjugel in accordance with the decree of the wood regulations of the Elector August von Sachsen . Schürer owned the building of the Crottendorfer Glashütte until his death in 1585. He was also the tester.
  • Christoph Schürer (junior), who took over his father's Crottendorfer glassworks in 1585.

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SURNAME Schürer, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German scientist and glassmaker
DATE OF BIRTH around 1500
DATE OF DEATH around 1560
  1. ↑ Albrecht Kirsche, Gunter Bayerl: Cistercians, glassmakers and wood turner . Waxmann Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8309-6544-2 ( google.de [accessed on April 3, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Friedrich Christoph Jonathan Fischer: History of the German trade, the Schiffarth, fishing, inventions, arts, trade, manufactories, agriculture, police, serfdom, the customs-coin mining, the exchange law, the city economy and luxury . 1792 ( google.de [accessed on April 3, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Gabriel Christoph Benjamin Busch: Handbook of Inventions: ¬Zweyten ¬Theils ¬zweyte ¬Abtheilung . Wittekindt, 1804 ( google.de [accessed on April 3, 2020]).