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Ludwig Carl August Klindworth was a nineteenth-century German

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and

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. He was an instructor of the later manufacturer, civil director and senator Conrad Bube. He was honoured in 1837 by the trade association of the

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with the Golden Needle Award "for his machines to weaving and spinning mills", including the mechanical weaving machine.

Family

Klindworth was born on 5 June 1791 in

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as the second son of the Göttinger mechanic and

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(1742–1813) and Friederica Eleonora Klindworth, née Diedrich. His elder brother was Karl Friedrich Felix Klindworth (c. 1788-1851), who took over his father's business at the same time to ensure the oppressive obligation for the upkeeping of his mother and siblings, and his younger brother was

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and

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. In 1785 Carl Augustus married Dorothea Wilhelmine (1800–1853), née Lamminger, the daughter of court printer Johann Thomas Lamminger (1757–1805). Their first son was

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Karl Klindworth Karl Klindworth (25 September 183027 July 1916) was a German composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, violinist and music publisher. He was one of Franz Liszt's pupils and later one of his closest disciples and friends, being also on friendly terms ...

Life

Following the traditions of the craftsmen of the

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, Carl August Klindworth built mathematical, physical and optical instruments to his establishment in Hanover. In 1831 he constructed the first 1 HP

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of the Kingdom of Hanover for the water supply of the City Hospital in Linden. In 1836 he founded a machine factory which supplied, among other parts and equipment for fire engines,

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and

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es. In the mid-1840s, Klindworth's

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was known in the address book of the city of

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as "machine shop and mechanical workshop", and also recommended in 1860 for "

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, lorgnettes, theater perspectives,

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, gold

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, etc. Klindworth died in Hannover on 29 June 1862.

Additional informations

Sources

*R. Hartmann: ''History of the city of Hanover from the oldest times to the present'', Second Edition, 1886, p. 1185 *Albert Lefèvre: The contribution of the Hanoverian industry to the technical progress, in: ''Hannoversche geschichtsblätter'', New Series 24 (1970), pp. 186, 274 *Louis Hoerner: ''Agents, Barber and copyists. Hanoverian commercial ABC 1800-1900'', ed. of the People's Bank of Hannover, Hannover 1995, p. 90 * Waldemar R. Röhrbein: ''Klindworth, Carl August'', in ''Stadtlexikon Hannover'', p. 353

References

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