Tobias Volckmer junior

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Tobias Volckmer (born May 28, 1586 in Salzburg , † August 17, 1659 in Munich ) was a mathematician , goldsmith , copperplate engraver and geodesist at the ducal court in Munich.

Life

Tobias' father , who was also called Tobias, came from Braunschweig and came to Munich in 1594 as a mathematician and goldsmith at the court of the Bavarian Duke Wilhelm V. For master Jakob Melperger, Tobias jr. from 1602 to 1606 also an apprenticeship as a goldsmith. With his father's training as a geometer and founder, he appears in the bills of the Bavarian court payment office from 1613 with the salary of 13 guilders 30 kreuzers. On October 11, 1613, he was accepted into Wilhelm V's court service with an annual salary of 50 gulden . In 1616 he and his father took part in the surveying preparation work for the planned brine pipeline from Reichenhall to Traunstein . On October 9, 1617 he was accepted into the Munich goldsmiths' guild. Days before, his surveying apprenticeship had been printed in Augsburg . Admitted as a master goldsmith in 1618, he also acquired a house at Altenhofstrasse No. 3 (in the Graggenau district, see house book in the Munich City Archives) and made several mathematical instruments with his father. After the death of his father, he succeeded him at the court.

plant

City map of Munich by Tobias Volckmer, 1613

In addition to making mathematical instruments for the farm, Tobias Volckmer jr. best known for the fact that he made the first printed city map of Munich as a copperplate in 1613 based on his own measurements . This map shows in detail the houses, streets and city walls of Munich and also contains a list of the most important buildings. Numerous scenes from the everyday life of Munich's citizens and the court are also recorded on the map, e.g. B. Hunting, herding cows, rafting, bleaching of cloth etc. Also remarkable is the information on the development of settlements on the left side of the plan: “Anno Chx. 972. When Otto the First regiret the Kaiserthumb, the stat was started and built. “The card printing is available in the variants A, B and C (StAM: Kartensammlung 1807).

literature

  • Tobias Volckmer: " Tabulae proportionum angulorum geometriae: That is, Quite a number of tables, from which one can easily get all sorts of knives, it can measure in height, depth, width and breadth." Printed by D. Francken, Augsburg, 1617. [Surveying theory]
  • Peter Schuster, Christian Strasser: Simon Stampfer . From the magic disk to the film. In: Roland Floimair (Hrsg.): Series of publications of the State Press Office Salzburg . No. 142 . Salzburg 1998, ISBN 3-85015-154-2  ( formally incorrect ) .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Volkmer, Tobias (1586–1659) , in the German National Library.
  2. ↑ The first Munich city cartographer Tobias Volckmer the Elder. Ä. and Tobias Volckmer d. J. In: Journal for Bavarian State History (ZBLG), Volume 69.1, 2006, Munich, p. 79.
personal data
SURNAME Volckmer, Tobias junior
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Volckmer, Tobias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Goldsmith, mathematician, geodesist
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1586
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 1659
Place of death Munich