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Last Name Bauer
Given Name Melchior
alt. Names M. B. ;
Marriage
Children
Year born 1733 in Lehnitzsch near Altenburg, Thuringia
Year died 1770 fl.
Place of death
Father's occupation peasant Hans Bauer
Relatives Maria Bauer née Lincke (mother), daughter of landowner Peter Lincke; several siblings
Education worker at the farm of his father; autodidactic development of flying apparatus
Country of Activity Germany
Worked for Flugzeughandschrift (1765) ;
Patronage attempted, but failed patronage of George III, Friedrich II & Count/Graf Heinrich XI. von Reuss ;
Collaborators
Techniques technical drawing ;
Sample(s) www.pictokon.net/bilder/01-bilder-2011/geschichte-010-luftfahrt-1763-flugzeugprojekt-von-melchior-bauer-v-form-der-tragflaechen-sind-stabilisieren.jpg
Archival sources http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchior_Bauer ;
Published sources NDB 1 1953: 644; Matthias Gründer: Die „Flugzeughandschrift“ von M. B., Flieger Revue 12/93 ; Werner Querfeld & Gottfried Börnert (eds.): Die Flugzeughandschrift von Melchior Bauer von 1765 (Gütersloh: Prisma, 1982) ;
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