![Eimmart Planisphaerium Coeleste c1730](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/Eimmart_Planisphaerium_Coeleste_c1730.jpg)
Georg Christoph Eimmart the Younger (22 August 1638,
Regensburg
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– 5 January 1705,
Nürnberg
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) was a German draughtsman and engraver.
Biography
Eimmart was instructed by his father, Georg Christoph Eimart the Elder (1603-1658), who was also an engraver, a painter of portraits, landscapes, still-life, and historical subjects. He studied at the
University of Jena
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The un ...
from 1654 to 1658. Eimmart the Younger resided at
Nuremberg
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, where he died in 1705. He engraved some plates for
Joachim von Sandrart
Joachim von Sandrart (12 May 1606 – 14 October 1688) was a German Baroque art-historian and painter, active in Amsterdam during the Dutch Golden Age. He is most significant for his collection of biographies of Dutch and German artists the ''Te ...
's ''Academia,'' and some small etchings of ruins, buildings, and vases, ornamented with figures, which have considerable merit. He was also a mathematician and astronomer, and published in 1701 ''Iconographia nova contemplationum de Sole.''
His mother was Christine Banns (?-1654), daughter of an Austrian tool manager, Damian Banns. On 20 April 1668 he married Maria Walther, daughter of the weighmaster, Christian Walther. His daughter
Maria Clara Eimmart
Maria Clara Eimmart (27 May 1676 – 29 October 1707), was a German astronomer, engraver and designer. She was the daughter and assistant of Georg Christoph Eimmart the Younger.
Biography
Maria Clara Eimmart was a German astronomer born in Nu ...
(1676–1707) was a designer and engraver as well who usually worked with her father. She married the astronomer Johann Heinrich Müller and died at
Altdorf in 1707.
He established the first astronomical observatory in Nuremberg.
The lunar
crater Eimmart is named after Georg Christoph Eimmart the Younger.
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1638 births
1705 deaths
German draughtsmen
German engravers
17th-century German mathematicians
Members of the French Academy of Sciences
17th-century German astronomers
Artists from Regensburg
17th-century German writers
17th-century German male writers
18th-century German writers
18th-century German male writers
18th-century German mathematicians
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