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Last Name Rösler

Given Name Balthasar

alt. Names B. R. ; Balthasar Roessler / Baltasar Rössler ;

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Year born 1605 in Heinrichsgrün near Ellbogen, Bohemia

Year died 1673

Place of death Altenberg, Saxonia

Father's occupation unknown

Relatives grandson Johann Christoph Goldberg, who edited B.R.'s Berg-Bau-Spiegel posthumously in 1700

Education trained as mining officer (Markscheider) in Freiberg & Marienberg, Saxonia c.1632;

Country of Activity Germany

Worked for B. R.: Speculum metallurgiae politissimum, oder Hell-polierter Berg-Bau-Spiegel, (1700, reprint 1980) ;‏ at least 56 sketches of mine shafts (Risse von Minen) ;

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Techniques geological, mineralogical, mining, and topographical drawing ;

Sample(s) http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balthasar_Rösler#mediaviewer/File:Rössler_Feuersetzen_%281%29_1700.jpg ; .../File:Hängekompass_Balthasar_Rösler_1633.

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Published sources 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) ;

other 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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