Johann Christian Breithaupt

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Johann Christian Breithaupt (* 1736 in Bickenbach (Bergstrasse) , † 1799 in Kassel ) was a German precision mechanic of the 18th century.

Life

After the age of 15, Breithaupt completed an apprenticeship as a gunsmith at the court wind gunsmith Friedrich Jacob Boßler from the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt , the costs of which were borne by the princely court chamber and joined Johann Gottlieb Stegmann's mechanical and optical workshop in Kassel in 1757 . He taught there at the Collegium Carolinum , a science university. In his workshop, Stegmann built instruments for scientific observations, including astronomical observations. In 1762, Breithaupt founded his own workshop, in 1767 he was appointed court mechanic by Landgrave Friedrich II of Hessen-Kassel , one of his main tasks being the maintenance and completion of the extensive collection of - mainly astronomical - apparatus and instruments that were available after the Museum Fridericianum was completed were exhibited in the Zwehrenturm there. Two years later, in 1769, Breithaupt married Susanne Strack, the niece of Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder. Ä. and sister of the Oldenburg court painter Ludwig Philipp Strack . In 1775 their first son Heinrich Carl Wilhelm Breithaupt was born, in 1780 the second son Friedrich Wilhelm Breithaupt.

The workshop still lives on today as FW Breithaupt & Sohn GmbH & Co. KG in family ownership and is known worldwide. It has delivered more than 470,000 instruments such as theodolites and heliotrops to more than 140 countries over the past 250 years .

literature

  • Hans Friedrich Breithaupt, Ludolf von Mackensen : More precisely than exactly: 250 years of precision measuring instruments from FW Breithaupt & Sohn in Kassel, based on archival documents, biographies and instruments in the company archive and the Hessen Kassel Museum Landscape. Publishing house Thiele & Schwarz, Kassel 2012.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Magistrate of the City of Darmstadt (ed.): Darmstadt in the time of the Baroque and Rococo . tape 1 catalog book for the exhibition in Darmstadt Mathildenhöhe from September 6 to November 9, 1980. Darmstadt 1980, OCLC 10857248 , p. 110 .
  2. ^ G. Breithaupt: The astronomical, geodetic and physical collection of the Royal Museum. In: Supplement to the Festschrift of the 75th Assembly of German Natural Scientists and Doctors, Cassel, 1903. Printed and published by L. Döll, Kassel 1903. - Full text online .
  3. ↑ http://malerei19jh.museum-kassel.de/show.html?kuenstler_id=26&nr=2&sort=B
  4. ^ Breithaupt, Heinrich Karl Wilhelm in German Biography
  5. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 13, 2016 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gih.uni-hannover.de
  6. ↑ Measuring the world from Kassel. In: FAZ of October 16, 2012, p. 43.
personal data
SURNAME Breithaupt, Johann Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German precision mechanic
DATE OF BIRTH 1736
PLACE OF BIRTH Bickenbach (Bergstrasse)
DATE OF DEATH 1799
Place of death kassel