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Hans Gruber?Watchmaker from Nuremberg. 8.1.1597) in Nuremberg (burial. 1. Marriage: Catherine (? -1562). 2. Marriage: 19/6/1582 Catherine. Curriculum and career: Hans Gruber was 1552 Plattschlossermeister. In this craft, the mechanics and watchmaking were united. He is regarded as a skilled mechanic, the pocket of 2 cm in diameter was building. In Württembergerischen Landesmuseum in Stuttgart has a Türmchenuhr received, which he built in 1583 for the Danish King Frederick II (1534-1588). Here is hidden on the left side is a sundial which is set to the latitude of Denmark. Among other watches and gun towers has received from him a square box made of brass sundial in the collection, Bill Meier, London. Gruber, however, by no means one of the compass-makers, he was a mechanic and master watchmakers. Memberships and Honors: 1591 was above-named Hans Gruber of the Greater Council of Nuremberg. Literature: Gouk, Penelope: The Ivory Sundials of Nuremberg 1500-1700. Cambridge: Whipple Museum of the History of Science 1988, p. 64f. Himmelein, Volker: Watches of the 16th and 17 Century. Stuttgart: Württemberg State Museum, 1973, Entry 9 Schaller, Andrea: magnificence of the Renaissance clocks. Stuttgart: Württemberg State Museum 2001, S. 33-39 Pilz, Kurt: 600 years astronomy in Nuremberg. Nuremberg: Hans Carl, 1977, p. 257f. Zinner, Ernst: German and Dutch astronomical instruments in the 11 to 18 Century. Reproduction of the 2nd edition, Munich: Beck 1979, p. 327
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