Peter Weidenhammer

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Peter Weidenhammer (* around 1480 ; † around 1540 ) came from Franconia and settled in Schneeberg . He was a German chemist and alchemist .

The " Bergkläufftige Beschreibung Der Churfürstl. " Published on Christian Meltzer's 1684 . Saxon. freyen and Löbl in the Meißnischen Ober-Ertz-Geburge. Bergk-Stadt Schneebergk ”according to legend, Peter Weidenhammer produced blue paint in the Ore Mountains around 1520. He is said to have sold them to Venice , where they were used to make blue glass beads:

" Peter Weidenhammer / also a Franck / has come poor anhero / but has dealt with the color / if he made Graupen out of the knowledge / and in many cents / each for 25 Rthlr. / negotiated to Venice / thus picked up / that he would come up with large funds / and built a beautiful house on the market. His name is in the big churches / with this year: 1520. "

Since the blue coloring effect of cobalt oxide in glass production was already known in Venice in the first half of the 15th century, Albrecht Kirsche from Dresden proved in his dissertation published in 2003 that Weidenhammer could not be the inventor of safflor , as in some literature is rumored. Rather, it is thanks to Weidenhammer that he first introduced blue paint production in the Ore Mountains. Christoph Schürer, on the other hand, first used the blue color in glass production in the Eulenhütte around 1540.

literature

  • W. Bruchmüller: The cobalt mining and the blue paint works in Saxony up to the year 1653 , in: Glückauf! 18th vol. (1898), pp. 9-11 and pp. 17-22.
  • Albrecht Kirsche: Cistercians, glassmakers and turners - glassworks in the Ore Mountains and Vogtland and their influence on Seiffen wood art . Berlin, Münster, Munich, New York 2005, pp. 116–121.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Meltzer: Mountainous description of the Churfürstl. Saxon. freyen and Löbl in the Meißnischen Ober-Ertz-Geburge. Bergk town of Schneebergk. Schneeberg, 1684, p. 469. ( digitized version )
  2. ↑ Albrecht Cherry (A. Cherry: Cistercian, glassmakers and Drechsler - glassworks in Erzgebirge and Vogtland and their influence on the Seiffen wooden art . Berlin, Münster, Munich, New York 2005, p 117.) wrote this quote but mistakenly Christian Lehmann to .
personal data
SURNAME Weidenhammer, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and alchemist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1480
DATE OF DEATH around 1540