Elias and Heinrich van Lennep
Elias van Lennep (* 1637/38 in Borculo , Netherlands; † January 15, 1692 in Vienna ) and his brother Johann Heinrich van Lennep (* around 1635 in Borculo, Netherlands; † March 1, 1720 in Kassel ) from the Van Lennep family were engravers , mathematicians and engineers .
Elias worked as a war engineer in Hungary from 1664/65 and from 1686 to 1688 ( Turkish wars ), in between as a copper engraver in Detmold , Kassel and in Brandenburg services. In Vienna he wrote a mathematical work on the “Regula proportionis” and made an astrolabe . Heinrich worked in Münster , Detmold, Wiedenbrück and Kassel, where he completed, among other things, the large celestial globe by Jost Bürgi .
Works
- Elias van Lennep: Alverdissen , copper engraving around 1663
- Elias van Lennep: City and Castle Detmold , copper engraving around 1663
- Elias van Lennep: The Externsteine with the sovereign hunting lodge , copper engraving from 1663
- Elias van Lennep: Sternberg Castle , copper engraving around 1663
- Elias and Heinrich van Lennep: View of Brake Castle , copper engraving around 1663/1665
- Heinrich van Lennep: The city of Jever , etching around 1671
- Elias van Lennep: Problemata mathematica per regulam proportionis , Frankfurt 1690 ( digitized version )
literature
- Bettina Rinke and Joachim Kleinmanns: Elias and Heinrich van Lennep. Engravers and engineers of the 17th century (Volume 4 of the catalogs of the Lippisches Landesmuseum Detmold ), Detmold 2001
Web links
Commons : Elias van Lennep - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Works by Elias and Heinrich van Lennep at Zeno.org .