Georg Matthias Burger
Georg Matthias Burger (born January 19, 1750 in Dittenheim near Gunzenhausen , † April 2, 1825 in Nuremberg ) was a German mystic and manufacturer of astronomical devices.
Life and horological achievement
Georg Matthias Burger came from Dittenheim, today a municipality in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district . Burger settled in Nuremberg as a trained baker . There he became known as a rose baker because of a rose attached to his house . Out of his interest in mathematics and mechanics, he also began making mechanical models and repairing clocks. Through this activity he came into contact with the pastor Philipp Matthäus Hahn (1739–1790) and his brothers, the clockmakers David (1747–1814) and Gottfried Hahn (1749–1827).
On October 25, 1790, Burger married Susanna Walburg Trinklein, with whom he had a son and a daughter. After his wife's death in 1799, he married her sister Margarete Barbara Trinklein, with whom he had three more sons and a daughter.
Burger made sundials and made mechanical earth and celestial globes powered by clockworks. In addition, he created a Copernican planetarium that showed the movements of the planets and their moons.
literature
- Manfred Grieb: Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon , Volume 1. Saur, Munich, 2007. P. 205
- Friedrich Hauck: Burger, Georg Matthias. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 45 ( digitized version ).
- Wilhelm Kunze: The rose baker Georg Matthias Burger, the "Nuremberg mystic" . Communications from the Association for the History of the City of Nuremberg 31 (1931), pp. 246–264
- Ernst Zinner : German and Dutch astronomical instruments of the 11th-18th centuries Century . Reprint of the 2nd edition, Beck, Munich 1979. pp. 276f.
- Württembergisches Landesmuseum (Ed.): Philipp Matthäus Hahn 1739 - 1790 pastor, astronomer. Engineer, Entrepreneur, Volume I: Catalog . Württembergisches Landesmuseum, Stuttgart 1989.
Web links
- Profile of Georg Matthias Burger , Astronomy in Nuremberg
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Burger, Georg Matthias |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German watchmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 19, 1750 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dittenheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 2, 1825 |
| Place of death | Nuremberg |