Wolf Hieronymus Herold
Wolf Hieronymus von Herold (baptized June 26, 1627 in Nuremberg as Wolfgang Hieronymus Herold; buried May 4, 1693 there ; also Wolff Hieronymus Herold) was a German bell founder.
His father was Georg Herold . His brothers were called Achatius, Andreas , Balthasar , Hans Georg and Johannes . He and his brothers were on March 16, 1654 by Ferdinand III. accepted into the imperial and hereditary nobility. On October 16, 1654, he married Barbara († 1667), daughter of the landlord and wine tavern Balthasar Trummer, in Nuremberg. On October 12, 1668, he married Susanna († 1670), daughter of the brewer Leonhard Golling. In his third marriage, he was married to Helene Anna Katharina († 1735), widow of war writer Heronymus Schmid, from October 30, 1671. He had a son named Hans Leonhard (* 1656) from his first marriage, but who probably died before 1693.
In 1653 he returned to Nuremberg from his wanderings in Vienna and took over the foundry works of his stepfather Leonhard Löw . This went to Prague.
One of his guns from 1684 has been preserved on Veste Coburg . In 1683 he cast the statue of St. John Nepomuk on Charles Bridge in Prague based on a design by Mathias Rauchmüller and a model by Johann Brokoff . His bells were sold to Nördlingen, Crailsheim, Thuringia, Saxony and the Upper Palatinate.
His foundry was taken over by his nephew Johann Balthasar, son of his brother Hans Georg.
Individual evidence
- ↑ CERL Thesaurus. Retrieved June 23, 2020 .
- ^ German biography: Herold, Wolf Hieronymus von - German biography. Retrieved June 23, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Herald, Wolf Hieronymus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Herald, Wolf Hieronymus von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German bell founder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | baptized June 26, 1627 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | buried May 4, 1693 |
| Place of death | Nuremberg |