Georg Meisenbach
Georg Meisenbach (born May 27, 1841 in Nuremberg , † September 24, 1912 in Emmering ) was a German engraver , graphic artist and entrepreneur . He is considered to be the inventor of the glass engraving grid and the autotype . In 1883 the first screened photo appeared in a German newspaper, the Illustrirten Zeitung .
Live and act
Georg Meisenbach was born in Nuremberg on May 27, 1841. At the age of 14 he learned the trade of steel and copper engraver. Around 1876 he founded a Chemigraphische Kunstanstalt in Munich and worked there on the development of a printing process for zinc plates, which was later called autotype . On May 9, 1882, he invented Autotypie with the German was Reich patent no. 22244 protected. This process made it possible for the first time to reproduce printed photographs in the press.
To evaluate the patent, Meisenbach founded the Autotype Company in Munich in 1883 together with the architect Joseph von Schmaedel . In 1891 Meisenbach retired due to illness. In 1892, under the leadership of von Schmaedel, the merger of Meisenbach & Co. in Munich and Heinrich Riffarth & Co. in Berlin resulted in the new company Meisenbach, Riffarth and Co. , which around 1900 with branches in Berlin, Munich and Leipzig became the most important in Europe graphic art institute rise.
Georg Meisenbach had the widow Johanna Pillmann born in Nuremberg in 1871. Room married. From 1891 he lived on his country estate in Emmering near Ebersberg in Bavaria. There he died on September 24, 1912 at the age of 71. His grave is in the old south cemetery in the Isarvorstadt in Munich.
literature
- Ernst H. Berninger: Meisenbach, Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , pp. 684 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Dorothea Peters: The world in a grid. Georg Meisenbach and the long road to printed photography. In: Alexander Gall (Ed.): Constructing, Communicating, Presenting. Images of science and technology. Wallstein, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8353-0180-1 , pp. 181–244. ( limited preview in Google Book search)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Georg Meisenbach (1841–1912), accessed on July 6, 2009 ( memento of the original from February 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Fränkischer Kurier dated November 20, 1871, page 7, accessed on June 6, 2020
- ^ Georg Meisenbach , accessed on July 6, 2009
- ↑ grave site 14-02-42, quoted by findagrave.com , accessed on June 6, 2020
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meisenbach, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German engraver, graphic artist and entrepreneur, inventor of the autotype |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 27, 1841 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 24, 1912 |
| Place of death | Emmering |