Johann Caspar Hartung

Johann Caspar Hartung (born June 18, 1622 in Queienfeld , † January 9, 1725 in Meiningen ) was a German builder .

Live and act

Johann Caspar Hartung had the baroque pleasure palace Amalienruh built near Sülzfeld in 1718 .

As a duke. Saxon. Meiningscher administrator or supervisor about the princely residences celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1722 Hartung, from the bottom of which the art-loving Duke Ernst-Ludwig I of Saxony-Meiningen the birthday boy and his friends in Frauenbreitungen a great treat hosted. In honor of Hartung, Duke Ernst-Ludwig had the Gotha court medalist Christian Wermuth mint portrait medals in silver and pewter in 1722. They are said to have been the only ones whom a Meiningen sovereign had hit a Meiningen subject. Such portrait medals can be found today. a. in the State Coin Cabinets in Dresden and Berlin.

Johann Caspar Hartung, who died in Meiningen on January 9th, 1725 without any descendants, was buried at “the cost of the princely”.

A later member of his family, the doctor Christoph Hartung , was also honored with portrait medals in 1841.

literature

Hartung, Hans Caspar . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 16 : Hansen – Heubach . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1923, p. 88-89 .

Individual evidence

↑ Ludwig Bechstein: Meininger Chronik - messages from the life of the dukes of Meiningen and their relationships with men of science. P. 41.
^ Meiningen place names and buildings on coins and stamps. In: Writings of the Verein für Meiningsche Geschichte und Landeskunde , 1st issue, 1st year 1888, p. 25 ff.
↑ ^a ^b Hartung . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 16 : Hansen – Heubach . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1923, p. 89 .
^ The coins on Meininger private individuals. In: Writings of the Verein für Meiningsche Geschichte und Landeskunde. 8th issue, 3rd year, 1st item 1890.
↑ Erhard Hartung: Dr. Christoph Hartung, an important homeopath from the very beginning. Kienesberger, Nuremberg 1998, ISBN 3-923995-13-X . Pp. 39, 59.

personal data
SURNAME	Hartung, Johann Caspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German builder
DATE OF BIRTH	June 18, 1622
PLACE OF BIRTH	Queienfeld
DATE OF DEATH	January 9, 1725
Place of death	Meiningen

[1] Ludwig Bechstein: Meininger Chronik - messages from the life of the dukes of Meiningen and their relationships with men of science. P. 41.

[2] Meiningen place names and buildings on coins and stamps. In: Writings of the Verein für Meiningsche Geschichte und Landeskunde , 1st issue, 1st year 1888, p. 25 ff.

[Thieme-Becker-3] Hartung . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 16 : Hansen – Heubach . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1923, p. 89 .

[4] The coins on Meininger private individuals. In: Writings of the Verein für Meiningsche Geschichte und Landeskunde. 8th issue, 3rd year, 1st item 1890.

[5] Erhard Hartung: Dr. Christoph Hartung, an important homeopath from the very beginning. Kienesberger, Nuremberg 1998, ISBN 3-923995-13-X . Pp. 39, 59.