Gottfried Pabst von Ohain

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Gottfried Pabst von Ohain (baptized March 30, 1656 in Mohorn ; † July 19, 1729 in Gottfriedsburg ) was an electoral saxon upper tithe and Bergrat . Together with Johann Friedrich Böttger and Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, he is considered to be the inventor of Meissen porcelain .

biography

Pabst von Ohain came from a Belgian noble family whose ancestral seat was in Ohain near Brussels and in 1470 settled in Saxony. His great-grandfather was the Rochlitz pastor and cantor Michael Bapst , his father the Mohorner schoolmaster Gottfried Pabst von Ohain. His son Carl Eugenius Pabst von Ohain became a well-known mineralogist and Saxon mining captain.

In 1669 Pabst von Ohain was admitted to the Freiberg Latin School and subsequently received instruction in the art of tasting and marrowing .

After completing his studies in law, mathematics, physics, experimentation, architecture and drawing at the University of Wittenberg , he traveled to Europe. In addition to stays in England, Holland, Italy and Switzerland, Pabst worked as a metallurgical chemist for the French King Louis XIV.

At first he practiced the profession of wardein . In 1698 he joined the state service of the Electorate of Saxony as senior tenth in Freiberg. By order of August the Strong , Pabst von Ohain was called to Dresden on November 24th, 1701 to examine the unsuccessful attempts of the alchemist Johann Friedrich Böttger to produce gold. After Pabst von Ohain had described the impossibility of success, attempts were made to manufacture European porcelain under the direction of Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus and Abraham von Schönberg . 1702 Pabst was from Ohains appointment to Bergrat the Mining Office . From 1704 Pabst von Ohain was the owner of the Prager Vorwerk of the Freiberg Kreuztor.

In Dresden an alchemist's laboratory was created in the Freiberg directed Pabst of Ohains Steel Institute together with Böttger attempts at porcelain production took in their continuation on the Albrechtsburg in 1706, first the red Boettger stoneware created. After Ohain had suggested the use of white earth from Heidelsberg near Aue and alabaster and Tschirnhaus had succeeded in producing the first European porcelain in 1708, the process for making Meißner porcelain was improved by Böttger and in 1710 the Meißen porcelain factory was set up to start series production.

Pabst von Ohain had farms built on his property near Freiberg and the Gottfriedsburg settlement was built on the Prager Vorwerk, for which the name Friedeburg became naturalized from 1732 .

One street each in Freiberg-Friedeburg and Mohorn and a school in Freiberg were named after Pabst von Ohain.

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SURNAME Pope of Ohain, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saxon mountain ridge
DATE OF BIRTH baptized March 30, 1656
PLACE OF BIRTH Mohorn
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1729
Place of death Gottfriedsburg