Johann Wilhelm Dilich

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Johann Wilhelm Dilich, 1636
(copper engraving by Sebastian Furck )

Johann Wilhelm Dilich (* 1600 in Kassel ; † 1657 ) worked as an engineer and city architect in Frankfurt am Main between 1628 and 1657 .

He was the son of the builder Wilhelm Dilich . He used instruments made by the imperial instrument maker Erasmus Habermehl († 1606 in Prague). Dilich had uniform leather cases made for these devices.

  • Octagonal vertical sundial sig. "Erasmus Habermehl fecit 89"
  • Conversion plate with slider signed "Erasmus habermehl"
  • Octagonal vertical sundial signed "EHfecit"
  • Theodolite sig. "Erasmus Habermehl"
  • Round vertical sundial

Works

  • Peribologia or report Wilhelmi Dilichij Hist: Von Vestungsgebewen Vieler orter , multiply as well as with original grounded and eroded and publicirett by Johannem Wilhelmum Dilichium, Frankfurt 1640
  • Peribologia Seu Muniendorum Locor [um] Ratio Wilhelmi Dilichii , Edita Sumptus Et Typos Suppedi Tante Joanne Wilhelmo Dilichio F: Architecto, Frankfurt 1641
  • Kurtzer Instruction How to Fortify a Place Given in Different Ways , Frankfurt 1642
  • His design drawings for the Frankfurt fortress building were kept in the local city archive and were lost in the Second World War

literature

  • Tobias Büchi: The fortress book Wilhelm & Johann Wilhelm Dilichs , in Scholion 3, 2004, pp. 187–190.

Web links

Commons : Johann Wilhelm Dilich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Lerner:  Dilich, Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 718 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Dilich, Johann Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Engineer and city architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1600
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH 1657