Who was LAUFFER, CASPAR GOTTLIEB ?

LAUFFER, CASPAR GOTTLIEB (Germ.). Son of Lazarus Gottlieb Lauffer; Mint-master at Nuremberg, ana Mint-warden to the District of Franconia, 1700-1745. Franks & Grueber mention that "he appears to be often confused with Carl Gottlieb Lauffer, the engraver ", and give the description of a medal, issued by him, on the Capture of Tournay, 1709, engraved by Martin Brunner, and bearing the initials C.G.L. Caspar Gottlieb Lauffer published in 1742 a Catalogue of medals issued by him, in conjunction probably with Lazarus Gottlieb Lauffer, Johann Gottlieb Lauffer, and Friedrich Kleinert. To this series of medals contributed not only the Lauffers, but also Martin Brunner, Georg Hautsch, Friedr. Kleinert, P. H. Müller, G. W. Vestner, Werner, C. Wermuth, and other artists. C. G. Lauffer evidently possessed the dies, as he offered to supply the medals in gold, silver, copper or tin, in any number. From this Catalogue (Das Laufferische Medaillen-Cabinet oder Verzeichniss aller Medaillen, welche sowohl die historischen Begebenheiten von A. 1679, biss A. 1742 als auch andere Christlich und Moralische Betrachtungen, nebst der vollkommenen Reihe der Römischen Päpste enthalten. Und noch itzo beständig zu finden, in Nürenberg bey Caspar Gottlieb Lauffern, Des Hoch=Löbl. Fränckischen Kreises Münz-Rath und General- Münzt-Waradin, 1742). I extract a list of the principal medals advertised for sale by C. G. Lauffer, and which could be had either in gold, silver, copper or tin : 1679. Peace of Nimwegen ; — 1680. The great Comet; — 1683. Siege of the Imperial residence at Vienna; — General Count von Starnberg; — Siege of Vienna by the Turks, and Relief (2 var.); — Count von Starnberg, Protector of the city of Vienna ; — 1685. Capture of the fortress of Neuheussel (4 var.) ; — Turkish Defeat at Gran and Capture of Neuheussel (2 var.); — Venice conquers the Kingdom of Morea ; — Progress of the Imperial arms ana Capture of several fortified towns in Hungary; — 1686. Capture of Ofen in Hungary (6 var.) ; — French Wars against the Dutch ; — Hamburg liberated from the Danes; — Venetian Victories; — Victories of Leopold I. in Hungary ; — Venetian Successes against the Turks (Reimmann Cat., n° 9686); — 1687. The Venetian Republic; — Hungarian Coronation of Joseph I. (4 var.); — Victories of Leopold I. over the Turks (2 var.); — Defeat of the Turks at Mohacz (3 var.) ; — Turkish Defeat at Siclos; — Pope Innocent XI. ; — Venetian Victories over the Turks; — Venice conquers the Dardanelles; — The Czar's Alliance with Turkey; — 1688. Capture of Stuhlweissenburg (2 var.); — Francesco Morosini, Doge of Venice ; — Max. Emmanuel of Bavaria ; — Capture of Belgrade (4 var.) ; — French Invasion of the Palatinate ; — Prince Elector John George III. of Saxony; — 1689. Pope Alexander VIII. (2 var.); — Joseph Clemens, Prince Elector of Cologne; — William III. of Great Britain (engraved by P. H. Müller and F. Kleinert); — Coronation of William III. (2 var., by the same engravers); — King and Queen William and Mary; — Maxim. Emanuel, Prince-Elector of Bavaria (2 var.); — Frederick III. of Brandenburg, Siege of Bonn ; — Capture of Kaiserswert, Rheinberg and Bonn by Frederick III. of Brandenburg ; — Victories over the Turks by Leopold I. and Markgrave Ludwig of Baden ; — Markgrave Ludwig of Baden ; — The French repulsed; — Capture of Mayence (2 var.); — Defeat of the French and Capture of Mayence ; — The Duke of Schomberg ; — Leopold I. and King Joseph ; — Coronation of the Empress Eleonora and Joseph, King of the Romans (2 var.); — Roman Coronation of Joseph I. (5 var.); — Capture of the city and fortress of Canischa (2 var.) ; — Venetian Capture of Napoli di Malvasia; — The Grand Duke of Tuscany; Death of Charles V., Duke of Lorraine ; — 1691. Congress of the Allied Princes at The Hague under the presidency of William III. (3 var., by P. H. Müller and F. Kleinert); — Ireland subdued (2 var.) ; — Pope Innocent XII. (2 var.) ; — Turkish Defeat at Salankemen (3 var.); — John George III. of Saxony; — Christian Ernest, Markgrave of Brandenburg-Culmbach ; — 1692. Prince Elector Max. Emmanuel of Bavaria, as Governor-general of the Spanish Netherlands (3 var.); — John George IV., Prince Elector of Saxony; — Anglo- Dutch Victories over the French (4 var.) ; — Capture of the fortress of Gross Waradein (2 var.) ; — 1693 . Unsuccessful Siege of Rheinfels by the French; — Sicily visited by an Earthquake; — Markgrave Ludwig of Baden; — Empress Eleonora; — 1694. The English bombard the French sea-coast ; — Victories of the allied Christian Princes against the Turks ; — Capture of Peterwaradein ; — Venetian Victories of Ciclut and Chios; — Frederick Augustus, Prince Elector of Saxony ; — 1695. Johann Heinrich Horbium, theologian of Hamburg ; — Capture of Casale ; — Lothar Francis, Prince Elector of Mayence; — Capture of Namur (2 var ); — 1697. Peace of Ryswick(3 var., one illustrated) ; — Augustus, King of Poland (2 var.); — Victory over the Turks at Zeuta; — Alsatian towns surrendered to France by the Treaty of Ryswick ; — Marriage of King Joseph with Princess Amalie of Brunswick (2 var.) ; — Marriage of George William, hereditary Prince of Brandenburg-Culmbach with Princess Sophia of Saxony ; — Armistice with the Turks ; — Amelioration of the Julian Calendar; — 1700. Birth of a son to King Joseph (2 var.) ; — The Northern Peace; — Swedish Victories over the Russians; — Pope Clement XI. ; — The New Century (2 var.); — Birth of Prince Leopold; — 1701. Coronation of Frederick, Prince Elector of Brandenburg, as King of Prussia (2 var.); — 1702. Capture of Landau ; — Anglo-Dutch Naval Victories at Vigo; — Counf von Hatzfeld ; — Prince Eugene of Savoy ; — Markgrave Ludwig of Baden; — 1703. Marriage of Markgrave Christian Ernest of Brandenburg-Culmbach with the Duchess of Curland ; — 1704. British Victories (2 var., one by P. H. Müller, the other by G. Hautsch) ; —The Duke of Marlborough and the Engagement of Hochstätt (Battle of Blenheim, by G. Hautsch) ; — Prince Eugene of Savoy and Battle of Blenheim ; — Battle of Blenheim (signed : F. K., Friedrich Kleinert) ; — Imperial Successes in Suabia and Bavaria ; — General Field Marshal Baron von Thungen, and Capture of Ulm; — Victories in Suabia; — Capture of Schellenberg; — Capture of Landau (2 var.); — Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse, and Capture of Grävenburg; — 1705. Death of Leopold and Accession of Joseph I. (3 var.); — Capture of Barcelona by King Charles III. of Spain; — 1706. English Victories, LVDOVICVS MAGNVS-ANNA MAIOR; — Another; R. Abimelech smitten with a stone beneath tower ; — Relief of Barcelona ; — The Duke of Marlborough's Victories in the Spanish Netherlands ; — Siege of Barcelona by the Duke of Anjou; — Charles III. of Spain enters Madrid; — Amadeus II., Duke of Savoy, and Siege of Turin; — Prince Eugene of Savoy and his Successes in Italy; — Conclusion of Peace between Poland and Sweden; — 1707. Surrender of Naples to the Imperial Army ; — George Louis, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg takes over the command of the Imperial Army ; — 1708. Siege of Ryssel ; — Capture of Ryssel (2 var.) ; — Battle of Audenarde (2 var.); — Capture of Ghent; — The Electoral College of Hanover ; — Baron von Strahlenheim, Swedish plenipotentiary ; — Marriage of King Frederick I. of Prussia with Sophia Ludovica, Princess of Mecklenburg; — 1709. Capture of Dornick (2 var.); —- Successful Campaign in the Spanish Netherlands; — Settlement of differences between the Emperor and Pope Clement XI; — Defeat of the French at Mons ; — 1710. Capture of Douay ; — Capture of Douay, Bethune, St. Venant and Aire ; — Charles III. enters Madrid; — Birth of the Prince of Orange; — Battle of Lerida ; — Victories in Catalonia and Aragon; — Swedish Victory at Helsingborg ; — Peter the Great ; — Charles XII. of Sweden at Bender in Turkey; — 1711. Death of the Emperor Joseph I. (2 var.); — Concord in Great Britain (by P. H. Müller); — Election of Charles VI. (6 var.) ; — Coronation of Charles VI. (6 var.) ; — Relief of Cordova; — Return of Charles VI. from Spain; — Loth. Francis, Prince Elector of Mayence (7 var.); — 1712. Charles VI.'s visit to Nuremberg (5 var.); — Capture of Quesnoy ; — Hungarian Coronation at Pressburg (3 var.) ; — 1713 . Return of the Empress Elizabeth Christina from Catalonia; — 1714. Hamburg relieved from the Plague (2 var.) ; — Vienna relieved from the Plague ; — Preliminaries of the Peace of Rastatt (5 var.); — Peace of Baden (4 var.) ; — Proclamation of King George I. of Great Britain ; — Landing of George I. in England ; — Coronation of George I. (by Johann Gottlieb Lauffer); — Return of Charles XII. to Sweden ; — Death of Anton Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (2 var.) ; — Proclamation at Blanckenburg of Duke Ludwig Rudolph of Brunswick-Lüneburg ; — Proclamation of the Duchess Christina Ludovica; — Birth of Prince Anton Ulrich; — 1715 - Return of Max. Emmanuel, Prince Elector of Bavaria, to his dominions (2 var.); — Death of Louis XIV; — Return of Charles XII. to Sweden ; — The Duke of Orleans, Regent of France; — Duke Ludwig Rudolph of Brunswick-Lüneburg (3 var.); — Death of Charlotta Christiana Sophia Czarowizia, daughter of Lud. Rudolph ; — Sophia Louisa, Princess of Oettingen ; — Prince Albert Ernest of Oettingen; — 1716. Pregnancy of the Empress Elizabeth Christiana; — Louis XV. and the Regent; — Birth of Prince Leopold (9 var.); — Battle of Peterwardein ; — Capture of Temeswar (2 var.); — Victory over the Turks between the Danube and the Sau (2 var.); — 1717. Capture of Belgrade; — Imperial Victory at Belgrade (4 var.) ; — The deplorable Wars between Christian princes; — Inundations at Hamburg; — Second Centenary of the Reformation (11 var.); — Cardinal Albani, Camerlingo; — 1718. Armistice with the Turks; — Imperial Successes in Sicily; — Accession of Queen Ulrica Eleonora of Sweden ; — Peace of Passarowitz (3 var.) ; — Naval Victory off Syracuse ; — Victories of the year 1718 ; — Defeat of the Spanish Fleet at Syracuse ; — Death of Charles XII. (seven varieties) ; — Inauguration of the Egidius Church at Nuremberg; — 1719. Capture of Messina ; — Election of Clement Augustus of Bavaria as Bishop of Münster and Paderborn ; — Coronation of Queen Ulrica Eleonora of Sweden ; — Hamburg Jubilee Festivities ; — 1720. Coronation of King Frederick of Sweden; — Consecration of Bishop John Philip Francis of Würzburg; — Coronation of Frederick and Ulrica Eleonora of Sweden ; — Death of the Empress Eleonora Magdalena Theresia ; — Birth of a Prince of Saxony ; —1721. Election of Pope Innocent XIII.; — St. John Nepomuc. (2 var.); — Death of Pope Clement XI. (2 var.); — Coronation of Pope Innocent XIII. ; — 1722. Coronation of Louis XV. ; — Marriage of the Prince Elector of Bavaria Charles Albert with the Austrian Archduchess Maria Amalia (2 var.); — Death of the Duke of Marlborough (by G. W. Vestner ) ; — Marriage of Prince Charles Emmanuel Victor of Sardinia with Princess Anna Christina Louisa of the Palatinate; — 1723. Coronation of the Emperor Charles VI. and Empress at Prague (3 var.); — Pregnancy of the Empress Elizabeth Christina ; — Death of William Frederick, Markgrave of Brandenburg-Onoltzbach ; — 1724. Confinement of the Empress Elizabeth Christina; — Birth of the Archduchess Maria Amalia Carolina (2 var.); — Election of Pope Benedict XIII. ; — Accession of Clement Augustus, Prince Elector of Cologne; — The Cologne- Münster Canal; — Sede Vacante at Hildesheim ; — 1725. Marriage of Queen Maria Leczinska; — Peace of the Pyrenees; — D. B. W. Marperger; — Marriage of Louis XV. and Maria Leczinska; — 1726. Death of George William, Markgrave of Brandenburg; — Accession of George Frederick Charles, Markgrave of Brandenburg- Bayreuth (2 var.); — 1727. Coronation of George II. and Charlotte of Great Britain ; — Relationship between the Ducal house of Brunswick and the Imperial house of Russia; — 1728. Joseph Renatus, Imperial Cardinal; — Cardinal Sacripanti ; — Cardinal Abdua ; — Death of the Russian Grand Duchess Nathalie ; — 1729. Marriage of the Markgrave of Brandenburg-Anspach with Princess Frederica Louisa of Prussia; — Death of Loth. Francis, Prince Elector of Mayence; — 1730. Second Centenary of the Confession of Augsburg (17 var.); — 1731- Duke Ludwig Rudolph of Brunswick-Lüneburg; — 1732. Dutch Camp at Breda; — The Salzburg Emigrants (9 var.) ; — Accession of Duke Ludwig Rudolph of Brunswick- Wolffenbüttel; — 1733. Shooting F?te at Nuremberg; — Election of King Frederick Augustus of Poland ; — 1734. Capture of the camp of the Allies on the river Secchia; — Marriage of Wilh. Charles Henry Friso, Prince of Nassau-Orange with the Crownprincess of Great Britain; — Duke Ludwig Rudolph of Brunswick- Lüneburg (2 var.); — 1735. Peace between the Roman Emperor and the King of France; — Death of Duke Ludwig Rudolph of Brunswick-Lüneburg (2 var.); — 1736. Marriage of Duke Francis of Lorraine with Maria Theresia (2 var.) ; — Anne, Czarina of Russia; — Death of Prince Eugene of Savoy; — 1737. Peace between France, Spain and Sardinia (2 var.); — 1738. Satirical medal of Brunswick; — 1739. Count von Münch, Russian general; Peace between Russia and Turkey ; — 1740. Death of Charles VI. ; — Death of Anne of Russia ; — Death of Frederick William of Prussia; — 1742. Election of Charles VII. at Frankfort (6 var.); — Coronation of Charles VII. at Frankfort; — Coronation of the Emperor and Empress, &c. Lauffer further issued medals of a general character, such as : Religious medals; — Luther's Catechism (10 var.); — The Lord's Prayer ; — Christening Medals (13 var.); — New year Souvenirs; — Birth of Christ; — Protection of the Holy Angels (2 var.) ; — The Love of Jesus; — The Christian Cardinal Virtues; — Faith, Love and Hope ; — Faith and Love ; — Patience; — Constancy in well doing and its Recompense; — Resignation to God's will; — Gratefulness and Gratitude; — Consideration and Caution ; — The necessity and usefulness of Work (2 var.); — Wilful Blindness, Owl wearing spectacles and holding a torch in each claw ; — On the Obedience of Children (3 var.) ; — True Friendship (4 var.) ; — Bribery; — Love (7 var.); — Conjugal Love (7 var.); — Marriage (7 var.); — Education of Children (2 var.); — Virtues of young men (by Geo. Hautsch) ; — Virtues of young women (by the same) ; — The four Ages of Man ; — The good and bad Habits; — Hope; — Souvenir Medal, etc. Beside all these, Lauffer edited a series of Portrait-medals of the Popes, from St. Peter to Benedict XIV. (251 medals), and one of Jesus Christ, as Head of the Church. Many of these medals are very common.

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.