grandson Johann Christoph Goldberg, who edited B.R.'s Berg-Bau-Spiegel posthumously in 1700
trained as mining officer (Markscheider) in Freiberg & Marienberg, Saxonia c.1632;
Germany
B. R.: Speculum metallurgiae politissimum, oder Hell-polierter Berg-Bau-Spiegel, (1700, reprint 1980) ; at least 56 sketches of mine shafts (Risse von Minen) ;
geological, mineralogical, mining, and topographical drawing ;
Heinz Meixner, Walter Schellhas & Peter Schmidt: B. R. Persönlichkeit und Wirken für den Bergbau des 17. Jahrhundrts (Leipzig 1980, accomp. the reprint of B.R.'s Berg-Bau-Spiegel) ;
Born in Jindřichovice, Bohemia, nowadays Czech Republic, migrated to Saxonia (Sächsisches Erzgebirge) in the 1620s; remigrated to Graslitz (Kraslice) where he worked 1634-49 as master & direktor of an iron hammer works; later Markscheider, Bergbeamter & Gewerke in Freiberg; also developed instruments.
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