Isaak Habrecht (watchmaker)

Isaac Habrecht 1608

Isaak Habrecht (born February 23, 1544 in Schaffhausen , † November 11, 1620 in Strasbourg ) was a clockmaker during the Renaissance .

Habrecht comes from a Schaffhausen watchmaker family, whose members mainly worked in Strasbourg. After an apprenticeship as a watchmaker with his father Joachim Habrecht , Isaak and his brother Josias Habrecht followed a call to Strasbourg in 1570. His main work is the second clock of the Strasbourg cathedral, completed in 1574 . Other art clocks were made in London, Copenhagen, Braunschweig and Ulm. Together with his journeyman Michael Müller, Habrecht also created the art clock on Heilbronn's town hall around 1579/1580 .

Another Habrechts room clock of basically the same design as the room clock probably created for Pope Sixtus V in 1589, which Octavius S. Morgan bequeathed to the British Museum in 1888, is located in Rosenborg Castle .

Clocks

Clock in the Strasbourg Cathedral
Heilbronn town hall clock
Renewed in 1580 by Isaak Habrecht: Astronomical clock at the town hall in Ulm
Room clock with automaton and carillon in the British Museum
Astronomical table clock in the Paul Dupuy Museum

Clock of the old University of Altdorf

literature

Helmut Schmolz , Hubert Weckbach: Heilbronn. History and life of a city. 2nd Edition. Konrad, Weißenhorn 1973, ISBN 3-87437-062-3 . No. 297: Isaak Habrecht (1544–1620), 1608 . P. 103
Adolf Wißner: Habrecht, Isaak. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 400 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Isaak Habrecht - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Tapan Bhattacharya: Habrecht, Isaac. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Works by and about Isaak Habrecht in the German Digital Library
Search for Isaak Habrecht (watchmaker) in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
Strasbourg Clock in the British Museum (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Richard Good, FBHI (N. Enders, translation): Isaac Habrechts clock from the year 1589 with automaton and carillon . In: Old clocks, chronometers, scientific instruments and automatons . Volume 8, January 1985, ISSN 0343-7140 , p. 9 ff. (With detailed description and photos)

personal data
SURNAME	Right, Isaac
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Right, Isaac
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Watchmaker
DATE OF BIRTH	February 23, 1544
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schaffhausen
DATE OF DEATH	November 11, 1620
Place of death	Strasbourg

[1] Richard Good, FBHI (N. Enders, translation): Isaac Habrechts clock from the year 1589 with automaton and carillon . In: Old clocks, chronometers, scientific instruments and automatons . Volume 8, January 1985, ISSN 0343-7140 , p. 9 ff. (With detailed description and photos)