Heinrich Christoph Bonhorst

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Heinrich Christoph Bonhorst (also: Heinrich Christoph Bohnhorst and Heinrich Christian Bonhorst * 1683 in Clausthal ; † or buried April 8, 1725 or May 17, 1725 there ) was a German mint master , mint director and medalist .

Life

Heinrich Christoph Bonhorst was a son of the mint master and mint director of the Clausthal mint Heinrich Bonhorst . After a petition from his father to Georg Ludwig , Elector of Hanover on April 27, 1701 , Heinrich Christoph Bonhorst was initially able to work as his father's adjunct at the Clausthal mint on July 27, 1702. On July 27, 1707, the elector appointed Bonhorst as a real adjunct, including the right to the post of mint master. He now also worked as vice mint director.

After the violent death of his father in October 1711, Heinrich Christoph Bonhorst was finally able to work as Clausthal mint director on April 26, 1712. Shortly afterwards, the Günthersleben feudal and knightly estate was re-awarded by Prince Christian Wilhelm zu Schwarzburg: Heinrich Christoph Bonhorst received two thirds of the estate, his younger brother Christian Friedrich one third. Further feudal letters were issued later , and after Heinrich Christoph's death in 1725, his son, Chamber Councilor Johann August Bonhorst ( Drost in Königslutter in 1729 ), became the owner of the manor.

Bonhorst served as mint director for about a decade. Some of his coins bear the monogram HC – B or B , similar to that of his father.

Soon, however, Bonhorst complained of malaise and there was talk of a cough. It is unclear whether he was ever able to fully perform his duties again after his illness broke out. At least it could be established that in his last years he performed an official act from time to time.

Bonhorst died in 1725, shortly after the devastating fire in the mint building. Christian Philipp Spangenberg was his successor .

literature

  • Siegfried Elbeshausen: Oberharzer Jetons from the mints of the Welfen (= Bremen contributions to the history of coins and money , Volume 5), Bremen: Bremer Numismatic Society, 2006, pp. 261–263

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e f Ortwin Meier : Der Kurfürstlich Braunschweig-Lüneburgische Münzdirektor Heinrich Bonhorst , in: Mitteilungen des Verein für Gothaische Geschichte und Altertumsforschung , 1929, pp. 30–40; Digitized by the Thuringian University and State Library Jena
  2. ^ A b Henning Calvör : Acta Historico-Chronologico-Mechanica circa metallurgiam in Hercynia superiori. Or historical-chronological information and theoretical and practical description of mechanical engineering, and the auxiliaries in mining on the Oberharze, in particular the machinery and auxiliaries by which mining is promoted, such as mine sheaths, shaft and pit construction, of Drilling and shooting, of the machines and devices to bring the mined ore to the surface, of the machines by which the ore is turned into sand, or of puching works and puching, of the machines in the smelter, of the ores, silver, Bley To smelt solder and copper, and from the entire smelter work one after the other, from the mint machines to burn the silver finely and to coin it into money. In the publishing house of the Princely Waysenhaus bookstore, Braunschweig 1763, p. 265; Digitized via Google books
  3. ^ A b c Karl Gustav von Schulthess-Rechberg : Thaler-Cabinet. Description of all known Thaler, in which all those pieces were included which were described in Madai's Thaler-Cabinet , third volume, second section: Braunschweig (continuation and conclusion), Franconian and Swabian circular coins, Geldern and Henneberg , published by Julius Grubert, Munich 1867, p. 193; Digitized via Google books
  4. ↑ a b c o. V .: Bonhorst, Heinrich Christian in the catalog of the German National Library [undated], last accessed on April 18, 2020
  5. ^ Heinrich Christian Bonhorst at the Association for Computer Genealogy
  6. ^ Gerhard Weise (2002): Mineral raw materials and their use in the Gotha district ( page 43a and page 43b , combined limited preview at books.google.de; inspection May 13, 2020); Page 43. Publishing house of the materials research and testing institute at the Bauhaus University Weimar. ISBN 9783860681565
  7. ↑ Georg Kaspar Nagler : The monogrammists and those known and unknown artists of all schools who use a figurative sign, the initials of the name, the abbreviation of the same to designate their works, & c. have served ... , Volume 1, Georg Franz, Munich 1858, p. 710; Digitized via Google books
personal data
SURNAME Bonhorst, Heinrich Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bohnhorst, Heinrich Christoph; Bonhorst, Heinrich Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg mint master and mint director of Clausthal
DATE OF BIRTH 1683
PLACE OF BIRTH Clausthal
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1725 or May 17, 1725
Place of death Clausthal