Johann Christoph Berndt

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Johann Christoph Berndt also noted in literature as Johann Christoph Berndt the Elder (* 1707 in Nuremberg ; † February 1, 1798 ibid) was a German mirror maker, copper engraver, mechanic and globe maker.

Life

family

Berndt was the son of the mirror maker Konrad Berndt and father of the later copper engravers Johann Christoph Berndt (the younger) (1755–1798), Johann Oswald Berndt (1752–1787) and Johann Christian Berndt (1748–1812).

Professional background

Cooperation with Johann Philipp Andreae

The mechanic and globe maker Johann Philipp Andreae (1707–1797) worked with him until 1733 and Berndt relocated the 13.5 cm globes created by Andrae around 1726 with slight changes from 1756 onwards and marked them with vignettes in French. He used the original copper plates, which were revised in 1790 and reused by Johann Georg Klinger (1764–1806).

Berndt was arrested together with Andreae in 1733 through his insulting insult to the Nuremberg Council and then sentenced to two years in prison.

Work

Globes

In 1756, with minor improvements, he reissued the 13.5 cm globes, which Andreae had created from around 1726, and provided them with a vignette in French. The associated copper plates were used again by Johann Georg Klinger (1764–1806) in 1790, but then in a significantly improved form.

Maps to constellations

Berndt made numerous engravings for the celestial atlas of the Salzburg Benedictine Thomas Corbinianus (1694–1767) under the title Firmamentum Firmianum, published in 1730/31, including mainly depictions of constellations.

In his publication folding picture of the solar system with a comet orbit to the comet from 1769, he confused the event with the appearance of Halley's comet from 1759 in the accompanying text .

Topographic maps

  • Exact and accurate plan of those opposing on the Rhine with the whole situation of the Kayserl. French a. Austrian camp ... (1744)
  • Topographic map of Germany.
  • Elbogner dan Saatzer district and Egerische area. ("Circ. Ellenbognen. Et Saatens.", Prague: Peter Franza, [1802?])
  • Elbogner dan Saatzer district and Egerische area. (Peter Franza in Prague [1802?], Gravé par JC Berndt geogra: á Prague,)

City history of Nuremberg

  • 1748: True illustration of the beautiful parade: so in de Heil. Rom. Reich's free city of Nuremberg, with the generous permission of the praiseworthy brotherhood of the cloth-making trade, for their usual New Year's dance after Woehrd in 1768, January 11th solenniter was held.

Coinage

  • 1774: Engravings for: Ancillary hours dedicated to the pleasure of minting, or description of a hundred pieces of strange and rare gold and silver coins, written and published by Matthäus Heinrich Heroldt., Paul Lochner and Mayerischen Buchhandlung., Nuremberg

Publications

  • Selected works: Thomas Corbinianus: Firmamentum Firmianum. Frankfurt / Leipzig 1730. [BSB Munich]
    • New edition Augsburg 1731 [BSB Munich]., Contains numerous engravings by Berndt

literature

  • Peter E. Allmayer-Beck (Hrsg.): Models of the world. Earth and celestial globes. Brandstätter, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85447-733-3 , p. 245.
  • Theodor Hampe: Johann Philipp Andreae and the medal-Pasquill on the Nuremberg council of the year 1731. In: Messages of the association for the history of the city of Nuremberg. 22, 1918, pp. 260-263.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred H. Grieb (Hrsg.): Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon: Visual artists, artisans, scholars ... p. 117, also with biographical information about the sons Berndt.
  2. ↑ Fold-out picture of the planetary system with the orbit of the comet from 1769 , accessed on July 22, 2014.
  3. ↑ Exact and more accurate plan of those opposing on the Rhine ... accessed on May 27, 2014.
  4. ↑ Elbogner dan Saatzer circle and from Cheb area , accessed on July 22, 2014.
  5. ↑ Elbogner dan Saatzer circle and from Cheb area , accessed on July 22, 2014.
  6. ↑ True illustration of the beautiful move: so in de Heil. Rom. Reichs freyen City of Nuremberg, ... accessed on July 27, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Berndt, Johann Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mirror maker, engraver, mechanic and globe maker
DATE OF BIRTH 1707
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1798
Place of death Nuremberg