JOHANN ERICH SCHILD. Mint-master at Hanover, end of seventeenth century.
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.
JACQUET, NICOLAS GABRIEL
JACQUET, NICOLAS GABRIEL (French). Medallist ot the first quarter of the seventeenth century (circ. 1601-1609). Mazerolle places the period of his activity between 1601 and 1626, and suggests that he may have been a relative of Jacquet dit Grenoble, Sculptor to Henry IV. Jacquet is the author of some cast Portrait-medallions : Pomponne de Belliévre, Chancellor of France, 1601 ; — Omer Talon, Advocate general to the Parliament of Paris, 1609 (both medallions signed : N. G. I. F. and N. GAB. IACQ....
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JACQUET, NICOLAS GABRIEL (French). Medallist ot the first quarter of the seventeenth century (circ. 1601-1609). Mazerolle places the period of his activity between 1601 and 1626, and suggests that he may have been a relative of Jacquet dit Grenoble, Sculptor to Henry IV. Jacquet is the author of some cast Portrait-medallions : Pomponne de Belliévre, Chancellor of France, 1601 ; — Omer Talon, Advocate general to the Parliament of Paris, 1609 (both medallions signed : N. G. I. F. and N. GAB. IACQ....
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JAECKLE-SCHNEIDER, BARTH
JAECKLE-SCHNEIDER, BARTH. (Swiss.). Contemporary Medallist and Seal-engraver, who in recent years has produced a number of commemorative and prize-medals. He resides at Zurich, but was born on December 11, 1850, at Schabenhausen (Baden). His father, who was a watchmaker, settled at Zurich in 1863. Jaeckle visited the schools, made an apprenticeship in a die-sinking establishment at Zurich, and afterwards worked at Cologne, Berlin and Breslau. In 1876, he started business on his own account at Zu...
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JAECKLE-SCHNEIDER, BARTH. (Swiss.). Contemporary Medallist and Seal-engraver, who in recent years has produced a number of commemorative and prize-medals. He resides at Zurich, but was born on December 11, 1850, at Schabenhausen (Baden). His father, who was a watchmaker, settled at Zurich in 1863. Jaeckle visited the schools, made an apprenticeship in a die-sinking establishment at Zurich, and afterwards worked at Cologne, Berlin and Breslau. In 1876, he started business on his own account at Zu...
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JAEGER, JOHANN CASPAR
JAEGER, JOHANN CASPAR (Germ.). Medallist of the second half of the eighteenth century. He was appointed Court-medallist by the Czarina Catherine II. in 1772, with a stipend of 1200 Roubles per annum. His usual signature is I. G. I. The following medals are by this Engraver : Commemorative medal of the Battle of Poltava ; — First Jubilee of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, 1776 ; — Erection of Peter the Great's statue, 1782 ; — Jeton on the same event ; — 1773, Betrothal of the Grand Duke ...
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JAEGER, JOHANN CASPAR (Germ.). Medallist of the second half of the eighteenth century. He was appointed Court-medallist by the Czarina Catherine II. in 1772, with a stipend of 1200 Roubles per annum. His usual signature is I. G. I. The following medals are by this Engraver : Commemorative medal of the Battle of Poltava ; — First Jubilee of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, 1776 ; — Erection of Peter the Great's statue, 1782 ; — Jeton on the same event ; — 1773, Betrothal of the Grand Duke ...
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JAEGER, REINHARD
JAEGER, REINHARD or RICHARD (Germ.). A native of Einbeck; Mint-master at Leipzig, before 1621; appointed joint Mint-master at Crossen with Basilius Bernhard in 1621 ; incarcerated on October 31., 1623, with Jamnitzer and other colleagues ; released in 1624, but applied in vain for the wardenship of the Ratibor mint in 1625. Coins issued at Crossen 1622-1623 bear this Mint-master's distinctive mark : hunting-horn between stag's horns. This mark appears also on " Klippe " coins of Leipzig, 1622 (G...
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JAEGER, REINHARD or RICHARD (Germ.). A native of Einbeck; Mint-master at Leipzig, before 1621; appointed joint Mint-master at Crossen with Basilius Bernhard in 1621 ; incarcerated on October 31., 1623, with Jamnitzer and other colleagues ; released in 1624, but applied in vain for the wardenship of the Ratibor mint in 1625. Coins issued at Crossen 1622-1623 bear this Mint-master's distinctive mark : hunting-horn between stag's horns. This mark appears also on " Klippe " coins of Leipzig, 1622 (G...
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