Johann August Richter

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Town view with traditional costumes of the citizens of Plauen

Johann August Richter (* around 1695 ; † after 1743 ) from Oschatz was a German cartographer and draftsman .

Life

Richter entered the service of the geographer and land and border commissioner Adam Friedrich Zürner in 1721 and was involved with him as a conductor in the second Saxon land survey until 1743.

plant

In addition to numerous maps, from 1722 together with the conductor Christian Rosenlecher, he produced views of the area and traditional costumes for the recording of the state of the Electorate of Saxony .

Hand-colored copies of the traditional costumes are used today by the Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (ISGV) at the Technical University of Dresden . Occasionally these are also available in regional museums, such as in Plauen and Grimma . There are numerous cityscapes u. a. in the Leipzig City Library . Richter's original sketchbook, however, is archived in the State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony in Dresden .

literature

  • Eberhard Stimmel: Kursächsische Postmeilensäulen - Bibliography , Research Group Kursächsische Postmeilensäulen (Ed.), Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1988, pp. 91-92.
  • Collective of authors: Lexikon Kursächsische Postmeilensäulen , research group Kursächsische Postmeilensäulen (ed.), Transpress Verlag für Verkehrwesen, Berlin 1989, pp. 86–87 u. 267, ISBN 3-344-00264-3 .
  • PE judge: Johann August Richters, des kurf. sächs. Cammer-Conducteurs, disappeared and rediscovered views of Electoral Saxon locations , in: NASG 31, 1910, pp. 142–145.
  • Emmy Voigtländer: The Saxon town and costume pictures , as well as other works by JA Richter 1722–1727 , in: NASG 47, 1927, pp. 133–158.
  • Paul Reinhard Beierlein : Johann August Richter and Christian Rosenlechner as well as their share in the views of the localities and traditional costumes of Zürner , in: Mitteldeutsche Blätter für Volkskunde 15 (1940), pp. 15–36.
  • Paul Reinhard Beierlein: Unknown Thuringian local and traditional costumes from the beginning of the 18th century . In: ZVThürGA 43, 1941, pp. 143-164.
  • Paul Reinhard Beierlein: Adam Friedrich Zürner and its importance for the Saxon costumes , in: Mitteldeutsche Blätter für Volkskunde. Leipzig 17 (1942), pp. 1-21.
  • Hermann Schreiter: More traditional Saxon costumes by JA Richters 1722–1729 , in: ibid., Pp. 21–31.
  • Horst Fröhlich : Johann August Richter and his traditional Saxon costumes , in: Calendar Sächsische Gebirgsheimat (1967), p. 19.-3. Nov

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personal data
SURNAME Richter, Johann August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cartographer and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH around 1695
DATE OF DEATH 18th century