Josef Benedikt Kuriger
Josef Benedikt Kuriger (first name also in the spelling Joseph , last name in the spelling Curiger , Couriger , Courrigé , Curriger ; * May 25, 1754 in Einsiedeln , † July 6, 1819 in Wettingen ) was a Swiss sculptor and modeler and one of the pioneers of the biological model boom in the second half of the 19th century.
Life
Josef Benedikt Kuriger was a son of the goldsmith Augustin Mathias Kuriger (1723–1780) and the younger brother of the goldsmith and wax boss's son Josef Anton Kuriger (1750–1830). He worked as a sculptor in Einsiedeln, Basel and Paris . In his metropolis, he worked on the anatomical theater , which gave him the experience he needed to move from modeling artistic objects to designing anatomical models . Among other things, Kuriger made wax models based on Antonio Scarpas , Albrecht von Haller's , Bernhard Siegfried Albinus ' templates and from the embryo tablets of the Icones embryonum humanorum Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring .
literature
- Adrian Christoph Suter: The anatomical relief representations of the hermit small artist JB Kuriger. Unpublished dissertation at the Medical History Institute of the University of Bern, 1986.
- Illustration in: Ulrike Enke: Embryology and malformation theory in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Preparations from the collection of the Museum Anatomicum , in: Das Marburger Medizinhistorisches Museum Museum Anatomicum , ed. by G. Aumüller and K. Grundmann, Marburg 2012 (Marburger Stadtschriften zur Geschichte und Kultur 98), p. 104.
Web links
- Franz Auf der Maur: Kuriger (Curiger). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Image of a clay tablet made in 1828 based on an earlier model by Kuriger
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archives Suisses des Traditions Populaires , Swiss Society for Folklore, 1987, p. 200
- ^ Nick Hopwood: Plastic Publishing in Embryology. In: Models. Third Dimension of Science. Stanford University Press, 2004, p. 171
- ↑ Nick Hopwood: Embryos in wax. Models from the Ziegler Studio. Whipple Museum of the History of Science, 2002, p. 11
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| SURNAME | Kuriger, Josef Benedikt |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Curiger, Joseph Benedikt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss modeller and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 25, 1754 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Einsiedeln |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 6, 1819 |
| Place of death | Wettingen |