KRUEGER, KARL REINHARD (Germ.). Mint-engraver and Medallist at Dresden; born at Dresden, 20. March 1794; died there, 20. February 1879. He was apprenticed to D. Loos at Berlin, and became later Medallist to the Court of Saxony. His brother Ferdinand Anton K. was a clever Copper -plate-engraver. Most of K. R. Krueger's medals are connected with Saxon history; amongst them I may notice : Portrait-medal of Karl Maria von Weber, composer, 1825; — C. A. Böttiger, archaeologist, 1830; — Jubilee of King Frederick Augustus of Saxony, 1818 (2 types; one was executed in collaboration with Stadelmann) ; — 8th Anniversary of King Anton of Saxony, 1835; — Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, 2nd Centenary of the Battle of Lützen, 1832; — First Centenary of Count Zinzendorf, founder of the Moravian Community, 1822; — Giovanni Perluigi Palestrina, composer, 1842; — Centennial Festival on St. John's day by the Grand Orient of Dresden, 1817; — Golden Wedding of Georg Adolph Fischer and Christiana Sophia, 1823; — Heinrich Posthumus, Duke of Saxony, Gymnasium Prize Medal of Gera, 1845 , — F. G. Lock, Bishop of Antioch, 1851 ; — Rebuilding of St. John's Church at Zittau ; — Christian Daniel Beck, Leipzig, 1839; — Dr S. Hahnemann, Meissen, 1829 ; — Dr Johann August Wilhelm Heden, Dresden; — Adolph von Hanselt, 1838, etc. Bibliography. — Bolzenthal, op. cit. — Hildebrand, op. cit. — Reimann Catalogue. — Mittheil. des Klubs der Münz- und Medaillenfreunde in Wien, 1901. — Müller and Singer, op. cit.
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
KNAUST, JOHANN CHRISTIAN
KNAUST, JOHANN CHRISTIAN (Germ.). Mint-warden at Saalfeld, 1764; Mint-master there, 1765-1794. His initials I.C.K. occur on some of his issues. I have noticed them on the following coins of Schwarzburg- Rudolstadt : Ludwig Günther I., Conv. Thaler, 1768; — Conv. Thaler, 1780, on the Marriage of the Hereditary Prince Frederick Charles with Augusta of Saxe-Gotha ; — Conv. Thaler, 1786; — Friedrich Carl, Conv. Thaler, 1791; also on currency of Saxe-Saalfeld : Ernst Friedrich, Conv. Thaler, 1765, &c...
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KNAUST, JOHANN CHRISTIAN (Germ.). Mint-warden at Saalfeld, 1764; Mint-master there, 1765-1794. His initials I.C.K. occur on some of his issues. I have noticed them on the following coins of Schwarzburg- Rudolstadt : Ludwig Günther I., Conv. Thaler, 1768; — Conv. Thaler, 1780, on the Marriage of the Hereditary Prince Frederick Charles with Augusta of Saxe-Gotha ; — Conv. Thaler, 1786; — Friedrich Carl, Conv. Thaler, 1791; also on currency of Saxe-Saalfeld : Ernst Friedrich, Conv. Thaler, 1765, &c...
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KNEASS, WILLIAM
KNEASS, WILLIAM (Amer.). Mint-engraver at Philadelphia 1823- 1840. He was born at Lancaster, Pa., September, 1781, and was appointed Engraver, January 29, 1824. Before taking office at the Mint, he had been chiefly a plate engraver for book-work. During his term, there were some notable changes in the coinage, as in 1834 and 1838 for gold, and 1836, 1837, 1838, and 1840, for silver. But some of this work was done by Gobrecht. Kneass is the author of a Pattern Half-Dollar of 1838, on which his na...
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KNEASS, WILLIAM (Amer.). Mint-engraver at Philadelphia 1823- 1840. He was born at Lancaster, Pa., September, 1781, and was appointed Engraver, January 29, 1824. Before taking office at the Mint, he had been chiefly a plate engraver for book-work. During his term, there were some notable changes in the coinage, as in 1834 and 1838 for gold, and 1836, 1837, 1838, and 1840, for silver. But some of this work was done by Gobrecht. Kneass is the author of a Pattern Half-Dollar of 1838, on which his na...
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KNOBLAUCH, JAKOB
KNOBLAUCH, JAKOB (Germ.) and Konrad Gross were "ordered and allowed “ by the Emperor Louis V. of Bavaria to strike Pfennige (Frankfurter) and Gulden, 4. September 1340. On the 18. February 1345, Knoblauch received another commission to issue Gros Tournois, "ein muntze von grozzen turnosen, die vier und sechtzig ane ein vierteil eins turnos an ein franckenfurdische mark gend. “ Knoblauch, whose name sometimes occurs as CHNOBLAUCH, also minted Hellers. Bibliography. — Paul Joseph u. Eduard Fellne...
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KNOBLAUCH, JAKOB (Germ.) and Konrad Gross were "ordered and allowed “ by the Emperor Louis V. of Bavaria to strike Pfennige (Frankfurter) and Gulden, 4. September 1340. On the 18. February 1345, Knoblauch received another commission to issue Gros Tournois, "ein muntze von grozzen turnosen, die vier und sechtzig ane ein vierteil eins turnos an ein franckenfurdische mark gend. “ Knoblauch, whose name sometimes occurs as CHNOBLAUCH, also minted Hellers. Bibliography. — Paul Joseph u. Eduard Fellne...
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KNOPF, HEINRICH
KNOPF, HEINRICH (Germ.). Goldsmith and Wax-modeller of Nuremberg, in the early part ot the seventeenth century, circa 1601- 1610. In contemporary documents he is styled " Conterfeter in Wachs". In 1601 he executed a medal of the Bishop of Bamberg, Johann Philipp von Gebsattel (illustrated), and received for the model and moulds 70 florins. These medals, observes Erman, were cast, as they were wanted, in the following years, by Knopf himself and the Bamberg Goldsmiths Paul Imhot, Marx Goldschmid,...
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KNOPF, HEINRICH (Germ.). Goldsmith and Wax-modeller of Nuremberg, in the early part ot the seventeenth century, circa 1601- 1610. In contemporary documents he is styled " Conterfeter in Wachs". In 1601 he executed a medal of the Bishop of Bamberg, Johann Philipp von Gebsattel (illustrated), and received for the model and moulds 70 florins. These medals, observes Erman, were cast, as they were wanted, in the following years, by Knopf himself and the Bamberg Goldsmiths Paul Imhot, Marx Goldschmid,...
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