Gotthelf Greiner

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Johann Gotthelf Greiner (born February 22, 1732 in Alsbach ; † August 12, 1797 in Limbach ) was a German glassmaker , co-inventor of porcelain and the founder of porcelain manufacture in Thuringia. He came from a long-established Thuringian glassmaker family and was a descendant of Hans Greiner, known as "Schwabenhans" .

Birthplace in Alsbach

Life's work

Johann Gotthelf Greiner invented porcelain together with his cousin and later brother-in-law Johann Gottfried Greiner and the Coburg master potter Johann Georg Dümmler, regardless of the achievements of Johann Friedrich Böttger and Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus in Meißen , and with a slightly different chemical composition . After years of research, they managed to produce real porcelain with a satisfactory glaze in early August 1761.

The foundations of the Thuringian porcelain manufacture were created through his entrepreneurial activities. His work and that of his sons are linked to the establishment of the following porcelain manufacturers:

Fonts

  • Gottfelf Greiner: Current prices of the Fürtsl. Saxony-Weimar Porcelain Fabrick in Illmenau in courranten Waaren , Weimar: Ettinger, (1787)

literature

  • Oscar Georgi: Porzellan-Fabrik Limbach AG Commemorative publication on the 150th anniversary of the Limbach porcelain factory 1772 - 1922. Gotthelf Greiner, 1792 to 1845 - the management of the sons and the heyday of the Greiner-Limbach family; 1845 - 1872 - among the grandchildren; 1872 , 64 pages with illustrations, Limbach Thuringia, Post Scheibe: Porzellanfabrik Limbach AG, 1922
  • Herbert Kühnert:  Greiner, Gotthelf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 38 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Gerhard Greiner: The Swabian Hans Greiner 1465–1532 - 4th and extended edition - May 1995 (family history of the Thuringian Greiner as a genealogical line over XI / XII generations)
  • Rudi Greiner-Adam: The Schwabenhans and his descendants - The founders of Lauscha and Limbach - 2nd extended edition 2003
  • Andrea Geldmacher: Porzellanland Thuringia. 250 years of porcelain from Thuringia. Jena, Verlag Städtische Museen, 2010

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Compare Oscar Georgi: Porzellan-Fabrik Limbach AG Commemorative publication on the 150th anniversary of the Limbach porcelain factory 1772 - 1922. Gotthelf Greiner, 1792 to 1845 - the management of the sons and the heyday of the Greiner-Limbach family; 1845 - 1872 - among the grandchildren; 1872 , 64 pages with illustrations, Limbach Thuringia, Post Scheibe: Porzellanfabrik Limbach AG, 1922
personal data
SURNAME Greiner, Gotthelf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Greiner, Johann Gotthelf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Glassmaker and co-inventor of Thuringian porcelain
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1732
PLACE OF BIRTH Alsbach
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1797
Place of death Limbach