JOHANN CHRISTOPH STAUDE. Mint-master at Weimar, 1684-1687, and Erfurt, 1690-1691.
Source: Biographical dictionary of medallists; coin, gem, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, ancient and modern, with references to their works B.C. 500-A.D. 1900; compiled by L. Forrer, London 1904
Source: Biographical dictionary of medallists; coin, gem, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, ancient and modern, with references to their works B.C. 500-A.D. 1900; compiled by L. Forrer, London 1904
Mint master:
In medieval and early modern Germany, the Münzmeister ("mint master", the Latin term is monetarius) was the director or administrator of a mint, a moneyer with responsibility for the minting of coins, or specie. His duties were defined differently at different locations and ages.
JEANNERET, FRANCOIS
JEANNERET, FRANCOIS (Swiss). Engraver of metallic dials for watches first half of the nineteenth century. He resided at Chauxde-Fonds where the Rue du Balancier was named after the big press he used to have in that street. The medal of the " Société des Armes Réunies ", engraved on R. 7e Médaille. 1er Prix de 1826, is by Jeanneret. Klentschy, another Medal-engraver ot Chaux-de-Fonds, was apprenticed to him. Olympe Humbert (q. v.) worked also for Jeanneret. Bibliography. — Information kindly supp...
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JEANNERET, FRANCOIS (Swiss). Engraver of metallic dials for watches first half of the nineteenth century. He resided at Chauxde-Fonds where the Rue du Balancier was named after the big press he used to have in that street. The medal of the " Société des Armes Réunies ", engraved on R. 7e Médaille. 1er Prix de 1826, is by Jeanneret. Klentschy, another Medal-engraver ot Chaux-de-Fonds, was apprenticed to him. Olympe Humbert (q. v.) worked also for Jeanneret. Bibliography. — Information kindly supp...
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JEHOTTE, CONSTANT
JEHOTTE, CONSTANT (Belg.). Medallist of the nineteenth century, born at Liége on the 15th of January 1809 ; died on the 12th of April 1883. He studied drawing at the schools of his native city and learnt medal-engraving under his father Leonard Jéhotte. According to Picqué (Médailles historiques de Belgique), this artist executed 64 medals, ranging from 1847 to 1882. By him are the following works : The Suspension Bridge of Seraing, 1844; — Modeste Grétry, 1845; — Sébastien La Ruelle, 1846 ; — P...
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JEHOTTE, CONSTANT (Belg.). Medallist of the nineteenth century, born at Liége on the 15th of January 1809 ; died on the 12th of April 1883. He studied drawing at the schools of his native city and learnt medal-engraving under his father Leonard Jéhotte. According to Picqué (Médailles historiques de Belgique), this artist executed 64 medals, ranging from 1847 to 1882. By him are the following works : The Suspension Bridge of Seraing, 1844; — Modeste Grétry, 1845; — Sébastien La Ruelle, 1846 ; — P...
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JÉHOTTE, LÉONARD
JÉHOTTE, LÉONARD (Belg.). Medallist, born on the 1st August 1772 at Herstal, died at Maestricht, 1st August 1851. He was first apprenticed to a watchmaker, but before long it became evident that nature had endowed him with uncommon gifts for the plastic arts and that his career was laid out in a different direction. In 1784 or thereabout the young man was admitted into the Medallist Philippe Joseph Jacoby 's workshop as a pupil. So rapid was his progress that already in 1789, when only seventeen...
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JÉHOTTE, LÉONARD (Belg.). Medallist, born on the 1st August 1772 at Herstal, died at Maestricht, 1st August 1851. He was first apprenticed to a watchmaker, but before long it became evident that nature had endowed him with uncommon gifts for the plastic arts and that his career was laid out in a different direction. In 1784 or thereabout the young man was admitted into the Medallist Philippe Joseph Jacoby 's workshop as a pupil. So rapid was his progress that already in 1789, when only seventeen...
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JERBEAULT, J.
JERBEAULT, J. (French). Die-sinker of the latter portion of the eighteenth century ; he was a native of Bordeaux and engraved a pattern coin (1791) which was struck by means of a machine invented by him : Obv. LA NATION | LA LOI | LE ROI within oak-wreath R. Inscription in seven lines under Cap of Liberty : J. JERBEAULT. l INVENTEUR D'UNE | MACHINE QUI | ACCÉLÉRE EXTRA- | ORDINAIREMENT | LEMONNOYAGE | DES ESPÉCES ; beneath, three lozenges. Hennin, Histoire numismatique dela Révolution francaise,...
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JERBEAULT, J. (French). Die-sinker of the latter portion of the eighteenth century ; he was a native of Bordeaux and engraved a pattern coin (1791) which was struck by means of a machine invented by him : Obv. LA NATION | LA LOI | LE ROI within oak-wreath R. Inscription in seven lines under Cap of Liberty : J. JERBEAULT. l INVENTEUR D'UNE | MACHINE QUI | ACCÉLÉRE EXTRA- | ORDINAIREMENT | LEMONNOYAGE | DES ESPÉCES ; beneath, three lozenges. Hennin, Histoire numismatique dela Révolution francaise,...
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