Gabriel Bodenehr the Elder

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Gabriel Bodenehr the Elder

Gabriel Bodenehr the Elder (* 1664 in Augsburg ; † 1758 there or * 1673 ; † 1765 ) was a German publisher , cartographer and engraver who created cityscapes of numerous German cities. His best-known work is the Atlas Curieux, first published in 1704 . Around 1710, Bodenehr published the first engraved floor plan of the city ​​of Passau with the title Floor plan of the Passau, Innstatt and Ilzstatt sites by Johann Stridbeck the Younger .

He came from the Bodenehr family of engravers . His father Johann Georg Bodenehr (1631–1704) was a copper engraver and publisher; his brothers Moritz (1665–1749) and Georg Conrad (1673–1710) as well as his son Gabriel Bodenehr the Younger (1705–1792) were engravers.

literature

  • Franz Mader : Tausend Passauer - Biographical Lexicon on Passau's city history . 1st edition. Neue-Presse-Verlags-GmbH, Passau 1995, ISBN 3-924484-98-8 (co-editor: Stadtarchiv Passau).

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mader: Tausend Passauer - Biographical Lexicon on Passau's city history . 1995, p. 32 .