Leonhard Danner

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Leonhard Danner , also Lienhard Tanner and Leinhard Thanner , (* 1497 or 1507 in Nuremberg ; † 1585 there ) was a German mechanic.

family

There is evidence that Leonhard Tanner had three brothers:

  • Martin lived in Nuremberg from 1528 to 1839 and married Ursula Bundsidler on October 27, 1528 in the St. Lorenz Church there. He was considered a renowned screw and Screw tool maker and received grants from the City of Nuremberg for his work. Sometimes he also worked in other places.
  • Hans worked as a mechanic and manufacturer of heavy lifting equipment and large screw works made of iron and brass. As the first Nuremberg craftsman he used endless screws with which he lifted protected people. This technique was used for a long time in Italy and France, for example. He died after 1545, possibly 1573 in Nuremberg.
  • There is evidence that Wolf lived in 1538 and died in 1552. He was a renowned Nuremberg gunsmith and a particularly keen producer of barrel barrels. In 1543 he worked on behalf of Charles V and Philip I.

Tanner himself married a woman named Sabina who died in 1555. In his second marriage he married a woman named Dorothea.

Live and act

Danner acquired Nuremberg citizenship in 1534 and worked for the city from 1554. Franz Fuhse judged Danner in the messages from the Germanic National Museum as a “brooding head”, “who rolled over major technical problems in his brain without understanding it, using his abilities to improve his external situation.” Danner was considered a resourceful and inventive carpenter and mechanics, especially in the design and manufacture of large hoists, screws, and breaking tools. He also worked as a copper engraver and plaque master and could perhaps have been a monogrammist.

In 1582, the emperor granted Danner a privilege for the art of saving wood he had designed. Further inventions were a brass spindle for letterpress presses and in 1550 a “break screw”. Depending on its size, this could open prison walls and walls of besieged cities. Presumably he also invented a quasi-factory production method to manufacture board game pieces using presses, following the example of coinage.

Danner was one of the numerous fortification engineers who followed calls from Elector August I of Saxony and Otto Heinrich von der Pfalz . In 1555 he sent bending tools to the Netherlands, in 1562 he created a high-speed scale and from 1557 to 1560 designed an artistically excellently decorated wire drawing bench for the Elector of Saxony.

Danner's remains were buried in the cemetery of the Rochuskirche in Nuremberg.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Treue:  Danner, Leonhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 511 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ^ Wilhelm Treue:  Danner, Leonhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 511 f. ( Digitized version ).
  3. ^ Wilhelm Treue:  Danner, Leonhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 512 ( digitized version ).
  4. ^ Franz Fuhse: From the plaque collection of the Germanic National Museum. in: Messages from the Germanic National Museum , Nuremberg, year 1896, page 99.
  5. ^ Wilhelm Treue:  Danner, Leonhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 512 ( digitized version ).
  6. ^ Wilhelm Treue:  Danner, Leonhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 512 ( digitized version ).
  7. ^ Wilhelm Treue:  Danner, Leonhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 512 ( digitized version ).
  8. ^ Wilhelm Treue:  Danner, Leonhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 511 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Danner, Leonhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tanner, Lienhard; Thanner, Leinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mechanic
DATE OF BIRTH 1497 or 1507
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH 1585
Place of death Nuremberg