LAMYER, HUGUES (French). Mint-master at Toulouse, 1529-1540.
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.
KRAUS, KLAUS
KRAUS, KLAUS (Bohem.). Mint-master at Joachimsthal, 1531-37. He was appointed in March, 1535, in succession to Ulrich Gebhard. He was a Saxon by origin. For malversation in his office, he suffered imprisonment, from March 1535 to 25. May 1537, when he was released by King Ferdinand's order, but his subsequent history is not known. His mint-mark is a ruff. Hans Weizelmann succeeded him at Joachimsthal. Bibliography. — E. Fiala, Klaus Kraus, Münzmeister von Joachimsthal, 1898. — Do, Das Münzwesen ...
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KRAUS, KLAUS (Bohem.). Mint-master at Joachimsthal, 1531-37. He was appointed in March, 1535, in succession to Ulrich Gebhard. He was a Saxon by origin. For malversation in his office, he suffered imprisonment, from March 1535 to 25. May 1537, when he was released by King Ferdinand's order, but his subsequent history is not known. His mint-mark is a ruff. Hans Weizelmann succeeded him at Joachimsthal. Bibliography. — E. Fiala, Klaus Kraus, Münzmeister von Joachimsthal, 1898. — Do, Das Münzwesen ...
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KRAUWINCKEL, HANS
KRAUWINCKEL, HANS (Germ.). One of the best known Nuremberg Counter-manufacturers of the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries. His name. occurs in various forms on his issues : HANNS - KRAVWINCKEL - IN - NVR ; — HANNSKRA V WINCKEL - IN- NVRENB ; — HANNS. - KRAVWINCKEL - IN - NV; — HANNS KRAVWINCKEL BIN ICH BEKONT, &c.;— HANS KRAVWINC KEL NVRENBER ; — H. K. ; — H. KRAVWI; — H. KRAV ; — HK, &c. Neumann describes no less than ninety-two varieties of Counters by this maker ...
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KRAUWINCKEL, HANS (Germ.). One of the best known Nuremberg Counter-manufacturers of the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries. His name. occurs in various forms on his issues : HANNS - KRAVWINCKEL - IN - NVR ; — HANNSKRA V WINCKEL - IN- NVRENB ; — HANNS. - KRAVWINCKEL - IN - NV; — HANNS KRAVWINCKEL BIN ICH BEKONT, &c.;— HANS KRAVWINC KEL NVRENBER ; — H. K. ; — H. KRAVWI; — H. KRAV ; — HK, &c. Neumann describes no less than ninety-two varieties of Counters by this maker ...
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KRIEGER, ALBRECHT
KRIEGER, ALBRECHT (Germ.). Mint-engraver and Medallist at Leipzig, during the second half of the seventeenth century. His signature A. B. K. occurs on medals of Duke Bernhard II. of Saxony, one of them commemorating his 35th Birthday, 1672, Duke Johann Adolph of Weissenfels, and Reformation Medals, 1717, with portrait of Luther, &c. The work on these, says Bolzenthal, " is of inferior merit ". Bibliography. — Bolzenthal, op. cit. — Th. Distel, Albrecht Kriegers Reformations Medaillen var. 1717, ...
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KRIEGER, ALBRECHT (Germ.). Mint-engraver and Medallist at Leipzig, during the second half of the seventeenth century. His signature A. B. K. occurs on medals of Duke Bernhard II. of Saxony, one of them commemorating his 35th Birthday, 1672, Duke Johann Adolph of Weissenfels, and Reformation Medals, 1717, with portrait of Luther, &c. The work on these, says Bolzenthal, " is of inferior merit ". Bibliography. — Bolzenthal, op. cit. — Th. Distel, Albrecht Kriegers Reformations Medaillen var. 1717, ...
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KRIZ, WENZEL
KRIZ, WENZEL (Bohem.). Medallist of Prague, who died in 1887. By him are the following medals : Hynck J. Heger, stenographer, 1808-1854; — John Huss, 5th Centenary, 1868; — Josef Jungmann, linguist, 1773-1847; — Ticket of the Karlsbad Library; — Prize Medal of the Agricultural Exhibition at Chrudim, 1881; — Prize Medal of the Agricultural Exhibition at Mistek, 1876; — Prize Medal of the Bohemian Industrial Society, 1872; — Another, of 1876 ; — Prize Medal of the Bohemian Agricultural Society, 18...
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KRIZ, WENZEL (Bohem.). Medallist of Prague, who died in 1887. By him are the following medals : Hynck J. Heger, stenographer, 1808-1854; — John Huss, 5th Centenary, 1868; — Josef Jungmann, linguist, 1773-1847; — Ticket of the Karlsbad Library; — Prize Medal of the Agricultural Exhibition at Chrudim, 1881; — Prize Medal of the Agricultural Exhibition at Mistek, 1876; — Prize Medal of the Bohemian Industrial Society, 1872; — Another, of 1876 ; — Prize Medal of the Bohemian Agricultural Society, 18...
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