Fruit knife (profession)

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Fruit knife ( Latin Mensor Frumentarii ), also cereal or grain diameter and Mitterer ( mhd. ), Described one to measure up to the 19th century grain and other fruits when buying and selling officially hired or appointed person.

Augsburg, for example, already had twelve fruit knives to check the grain supplies in 1276.

Fruit knives worked on behalf of the public and belonged to the city or state financial administration.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fruit knife. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 4 : Forschel – retainer - (IV, 1st section, part 1). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1878, Sp. 277 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
  2. ↑ Grain Knife. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 6 : Grain - Ordinary - (IV, 1st section, part 3). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1911, Sp. 4486 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
  3. ↑ Eberhard Ref: Mitterer . Technical terms and explanations for the Palatinate Mill Lexicon, accessed on May 2, 2020.
  4. ↑ Karl Friedrich Wernet: Competition and sales conditions of the craft in a historical perspective . Duncker and Humblot, 1967, Volume 1, p. 149.
  5. ↑ About great fruits - all about the blueberry . Bürstadt town hall , January 3, 2005
  6. ^ Walter KF Haas: A Sociology of Professions in Villingen in the 19th Century History and Local History Association Villingen, accessed on May 2, 2020.
  7. ↑ 1.7.1. Accounting Office Institute for City History in the Carmelite Monastery in Frankfurt am Main ; accessed on May 2, 2020.