Jeremias Bunsen
(Robert Wilhelm) Jeremias Bunsen (* December 8, 1688 in Hesperinghausen , Principality of Waldeck; † March 11, 1752 ) was court painter , mint master and mayor .
Life
His father Anton (1661–1736) was a farmer. After his mother died shortly after he was born, he was welcomed and taught Christianity and Latin by his paternal grandfather, the local preacher. When he too died in 1702, at the age of 14 he traveled to his mother's brother, who was an engineer and captain in Nijmegen . He wanted to let him study, but took Jeremias into the field in Brabant in 1703 "to cheer him up" , and his uncle was killed in Maastricht .
At the age of 15 he became a lackey at the Arolser Hof. On September 25, 1703 he was given to the Countess Johanette's two sons and was lucky enough to be taught with them. Due to a lack of diligence, he decided in 1706 to begin a seven-year painting apprenticeship with the court painter in Arolsen. He then continued his education with Magnus de Quitter in Kassel, so that he was accepted as court painter in Arolsen in 1716. In 1726 he built his house in Arolsen.
Out of thirst for knowledge, he also devoted himself to chemistry, spoiling his eyes in the laboratory.
When Prince von Waldeck, Karl August Friedrich, took office in 1728, he wanted to “exercise the right to mint” and sent Bunsen to the Kassler Münze for training. In 1730 Jeremias made his first minting and from 1731 he struck ducats. After adequate training, the prince handed him over the coinage, which he administered until his death. Gold was supposed to be mined as coin metal in the Korbacher Eisenberg , and Bunsen was involved in the mining there until 1752. He also became mayor of Arolsen.
In 1745 he had read about the experiments of the doctor Christian Friedrich Ludolff (1707–1763), who had succeeded in Berlin in igniting combustible material using sparks from an electrifying machine. That was an important indication that electric sparks and lightning are the same phenomenon. Bunsen also built “such a machine with a big wheel and a glass ball”, where he noticed that you can hear a clear bang during the discharge processes, especially when you amplify it acoustically with funnels. However, his report in the Leipzig collection remained without echo.
He was married four times. One of his sons, Philipp Christian Bunsen (1729–1790) followed him in 1752 as mint master in Arolsen.
Publications
- Attempt how the meteors of thunder and lightning, item of the rising of their vapors, in the same way of the northern glow, can be derived and explained from electrical effects ... Submitted to the nature deniers by J. B. Lemgo, Johann Heinrich Meyer, 1750 ( online )
- Explanation of Their Electric and Magnetic Forces. Put to the light by Jeremias Bunsen . 1752 ( online )
literature
- Reinhard Bunsen: family tree of the Bunsen and von Bunsen families ; 1910
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bunsen, Jeremias. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Supplement 4, Leipzig 1754, column 998.
- ↑ bad-arolsen.de
- ↑ althofen.at ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.1 MB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bunsen, Jeremias |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm Jeremias |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German court painter, mint master and mayor in Arolsen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 8, 1688 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hesperinghausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 11, 1752 |