Martin Schipani

Martin Schipani (* 1693 at the Lüxen farm near Hohenleipa , Bohemia ; † October 13, 1759 in Würzburg ) was a German master watchmaker .

Martin Schipani was born in 1693 on the Lüxen farm near Hohenleipa in Bohemia, where his father Simon Schipani was the administrator. He completed an apprenticeship as a clockmaker and then spent 17 years on the road, most recently with the Würzburg clockmaker Johann Henner.

On February 23, 1727 he married Regina Theresia Hirzel, the daughter of the Würzburg master blacksmith Philipp Hirzel. He was accepted as a master in the guild on November 3, 1727. He then became a Würzburg court watchmaker and, along with the clockmakers Johann Joseph Langschwert and Andreas Steib, was one of the most important watchmakers at the Würzburg court.

Mainly table clocks (synonymous with stick clocks ) have been preserved from Martin Schipani's workshop . Some of them can be found, for example, in the collection of the Museum für Franken in the Marienberg Fortress in Würzburg.

Martin Schipani died on October 13, 1759 in Würzburg and was buried in the cemetery of the Franciscan monastery there. The workshop was continued for three years after his death by his widow and then handed over to his journeyman Johann Heinrich Käsmann.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Peter Treuschel: The masters of the Würzburg watchmakers guild .
2. ↑ Hans-Peter Trenschel: The Würzburg guild of locksmiths, rifle, watch and winch makers . In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes; Volume 2: From the Peasants' War in 1525 to the transition to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1814. Theiss, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1477-8 , pp. 448–453, here: p. 453.
3. ^ Ian D. Fowler, Hans-Peter Trenschel, Frauke Van der Wall: Clocks from five centuries . Catalog for the exhibition “Now it hits 2000”. In the Mainfränkisches Museum Würzburg from 10/1999 to 3/2000, ISBN 978-3932461200 .