Hans Bünting

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Hans Bünting (also: Johann Bünting and Hans Buntinck ; * before 1538 in Langenhagen , † after 1555 ) was a German goldsmith .

Life

Hans Bünting was the son of a freeman in Langenhagen. He settled in Hanover in 1538 as a goldsmith and silver worker.

Bünting married Helena, daughter of the land rent master Heinrich Lorleberg . The couple became parents of the later Protestant clergyman and historian Heinrich Bünting, who was born in Hanover in 1545, and his brother and later Hanoverian syndic Konrad Bünting .

Famous works

Sundial from 1555 on the market church St. Jacobi et Georgii with the initials HB and AS

For the Duchess Elisabeth , born Marchioness of Brandenburg , created Bünting the price of 6 dollars a golden ring whose payment he writing from Hanover on the day St. Martin brought in 1548 "strongly remembered."

Among the most famous works Büntings 1555 donated by him and together with the sculptor counts Arndt Siem Erding as public art created sundial on the church tower in the Hanover Market Church St. Jacobi et Georgii . The sundial attached to the top right of the staircase tower of the church is the younger of the two sundials in the sacred building; the one on the left of the pillar dates from the 13th century.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e Wilhelm Mithoff : Bünting, Hans , in ders .: Medieval artists and master craftsmen in Lower Saxony and Westphalia , 2nd, revised and increased edition, Helwingsche Verlagbuchhandlung, Hanover 1885, p. 60; Digitized version of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
  2. ^ A b c Karljosef Kreter : Urban history culture and historiography. The image of the city of Hanover in the mirror of its histories from the beginnings to the loss of urban autonomy , also dissertation in 1996 at the University of Hanover, Hanover 1996; as a PDF document from the German National Library
  3. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Bünting, Heinrich , in: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 78; Preview over google books
  4. ^ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Hans-Lilje-Platz 11 , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hannover. Kunst- und Kultur-Lexikon , new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , pp. 127–132; here: p. 128
personal data
SURNAME Bünting, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bünting, Johann; Buntinck, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German goldsmith and silver worker
DATE OF BIRTH before 1538
PLACE OF BIRTH Langenhagen
DATE OF DEATH after 1555