Isaak Habrecht (watchmaker)

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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 .

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

Individual evidence

  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)