Lazarus Ercker

Lazarus Ercker of Dreadmaul (* around 1528 / 1530 in Annaberg , † 7. January 1594 in Prague ) was a Saxon and Bohemian mint master , GuardA and author .

life and work

After studying from 1547 to 1548 at the University of Wittenberg , Ercker went to the Electoral Saxon service. From 1554 he worked as a mint guard in Dresden and from 1567 worked as mint master in Kuttenberg .

His Aula subterranea from 1574 contains a detailed description of the methods used at that time for the extraction of metals from ores as well as the evidence of the metal content and the composition of alloys. It is the first documented docimastics textbook .

He was the most important advisor to Rudolph II in matters of mining and served him in this capacity for almost thirty years.

Works

• A brief report from Rämelsbergk and the same Berckwergk. Through a well-experienced and preliminary search of the same Berckwerge to honor and use some of his good friends and lovers of the Berckwerge , Erfurt 1565 ( digitized version )
• Description of all fornemistic mineral salts, and types of mines, like the same, and each specialty, according to nature and properties, tried on all metals ... In five books , Georg Schwartz, Prague 1574; and various other editions:
  • Description of the most splendid mineral ores and mine types , Frankfurt am Main 1580 ( digitized version )
  • Description of the most splendid mineral ores and mine types , Frankfurt am Main 1598 ( digitized version )
  • Description of the most splendid mineral ores and mine types , Frankfurt am Main 1629 ( digitized version )
  • Aula Subterranea Domina Dominantium Subdita Subditorum. That is: Untererdische Hofhaltung ... , Frankfurt am Main. Vol. 1 1672 ( digitized version and full text in the German text archive ; digitized version ), Bd. 2 1673 ( digitized version and full text in the German text archive ; digitized version in the SLUB Dresden )
  • Aula subterranea, domina donimantium, subdita subditorum. That is: Untererdische Hofhaltung ... , Frankfurt am Main 1684
  • Aula subterranea domina dominantium subdita subditorum, that is: Untererdische Hoffhaltung ... , Frankfurt am Main 1703 ( digitized version )
  • Aula subterranea domina dominantium subdita subditorum. That is: Untererdische Hofhaltung ... , Frankfurt am Main 1736

literature

• Paul Reinhard Beierlein: Lazarus Ercker-Bergmann. Hüttenmann and mint master in the 16th century . (= Freiberg research books; D12). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1955
• Paul Reinhard Beierlein:  Ercker von Schreckenfels, Lazarus. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 567 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Wilhelm von Gümbel:  Ercker, Lazarus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 214 f.
• Ludmila Kubátová, Hans Prescher, Werner Weisbach: Lazarus Ercker (1528 / 30-1594): tester, mountain and mint master in Saxony, Braunschweig and Bohemia . 1st edition. German publishing house for basic industry, Leipzig 1994, ISBN 978-3-342-00656-5 .
• Ursula Klein, Emma C. Spary: Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe: Between Market and Laboratory . University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2010, ISBN 978-0-226-43968-6 , pp. 89-90 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Lazarus Ercker in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ RJW Evans, Rudolf II., Styria 1980, p 144