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Last Name Weigel

Given Name Christoph

alt. Names C. W. ; Weigel the Elder ;

Marriage N. N. (1670 c. -1725 after)

Children

Year born 1654 in Redwitz, Bohemia

Year died 1725

Place of death Nuremberg

Father's occupation

Relatives art dealer, publisher, and engraver ->Johann Christoph Weigel (1661-1726) (brother) ;

Education taught by instrument maker Erhart Weigel (cousin) ; engraving by Andreas Wolfgang and later b Matthäus Küsel (1621-1683), Augsburg

Country of Activity Germany

Worked for map "Ducatus Würtembergiae" (1718) ; Discus chronologicus, early 1720s ;

Patronage

Collaborators geographer and cartographer Johann Baptist Homann (1664-1724), Nuremberg ; parson Johannes Majer (1641-1712) ;

Techniques cartographical drawing and engraving ;

Sample(s)

Archival sources https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoph_Weigel_der_%C3%84ltere ;

Published sources ADB 41 1896: 464f. ; Grees 2002: 39 ; Nagler XXI 1851 ; Rosenberg & Grafton 2010: 105 ;

other Active in Augsburg, Nuremberg, and Frankfurt am Main.

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