Reinhard Emanuel Battier

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Reinhard Emanuel Battier (* 1744 ; † after 1762) was a Swiss sculptor .

Reinhard Emanuel Battier, son of the Basel mathematician, physicist and doctor Reinhard Battier (1724–1779) and his wife Ester Magdalena Ernst from Bern, completed an apprenticeship as a sculptor and worked as a journeyman in Strasbourg in 1762. At that time, at the request of a relative in 1762, he was granted Basel citizenship free of charge, which he had lost due to his father's long absence abroad. He later lived in Paris .

literature

  • August Huber: Information about Basel artisans from the civil rights files of the Basel State Archives, in: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde 14 (1915), pp. 379–385. ( online on retro-seals )
  • Leu / Holzhalb: General Helvetian, Federal, or Swiss Lexicon, Vol. 1, p. 160.
  • Markus Lutz : Baslerisches Bürgerbuch. Contain all genders currently naturalized in the city of Basel, as well as their first settlers a. noteworthy people. Schweighauser, Basel 1819. ( online , digitized ).

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personal data
SURNAME Battier, Reinhard Emanuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1744
DATE OF DEATH after 1762