J. A. ; Jos / Jobst / Ammon / monograms IA , IAG and IAGVZ ;
1: Barbara in 1574 ; 2: Elisabeth, née Schwarz in 1586
2 sons and 2 daughters
1539 in Zurich
1591
Nuremberg
professor of Classics and Logic Johann Jakob Amman (1xxx-1xxx), member of the dome chapter
mother Elisabeth Egger ; goldsmith Josua Amman (brother) ;
trained as a glas painter ; learned xylography and etching from Virgil Solis ;
Germany & Switzerland
Julius Spital Würzburg; Aurelius Philippus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (Paracelsus): Der grosse Wundartzney das Erst Buch (1535); ->Wenzel Jamnitzer: Perspectiva corporum regularium (Nuremberg 1567/68); Jacob Ruffen: Hebammen Buch, Ffm 1580; alchemist & physician Leonhard Thurneiser (1531-1596): Historia und Beschreibung influentischer, elementischer u. natürlicher Wirkungen, Berlin 1578; Historia sive descriptio plantarum omnius, ibid.; J.A. also engraved Wentzels "Messcheibe".
Virgil Solis ; publ. Sigmund Feyerabend ; Ludwig Ringler ; ->Hans Bocksberger ; -> Hermann Ring ;
anatomical & medical drawing, painting, engraving & xylography
