Johann Christian Bauer
Johann Christian Bauer (born November 15, 1802 in Hanau , † May 25, 1867 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German die cutter and type caster .
life and work
Bauer opened a font tailoring shop in Frankfurt am Main in 1833. In 1835 he took on Johann Christian Daniel Nies as a partner. After this partnership was dissolved in 1837, he founded the Bauersche Gießerei .
In 1839 he moved his business to England, but returned to the Free City of Frankfurt in 1847 . Because of the high quality of its typefaces, which Bauer usually cut himself, his type foundry developed into a leading company in the industry. His efforts for an effective legal protection of the writings against galvanic replication were unsuccessful.
In 1859 he constructed a high-speed type casting machine .
literature
- Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . First volume. A – L (= publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 1 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7829-0444-3 .
- Konrad F. Bauer: Bauer, Johann Christian. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 640 ( digitized version ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bauer, Johann Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German die cutter and type caster |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 15, 1802 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanau |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 25, 1867 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |