Fryderyk Krzysztof Dietrich

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Jewish Security Guard, an 1831 engraving by Fryderyk Krzysztof Dietrich

Fryderyk Krzysztof Dietrich (German: Friedrich Christoph Dietrich; 1779–1847) was a German-born Polish engraver and civil servant.

Biography[]

He was born on 3 April 1779 in Öhringen in the Duchy of Württemberg.[1] His father was a goldsmith at the court of Prince Hohenlohe. Early in his life he took classes in civil engineering, studied painting in the studio of and architecture in the team of .[1] He then left for Augsburg to study the art of engraving with and then with Christian Haldenwang in Karlsruhe. In 1804 he returned to his native town of Öhringen and became a court engraver for the princes of Hohenlohe.[1] When one of his benefactors died, he left the court in search for a new job.

He stayed briefly in Amsterdam, London, Berlin and Poznań before finally settling in Warsaw, where he opened the first engraving shop in the city.[1] In 1819 his new benefactor, Stanisław Kostka Potocki, awarded him with a government contract for 24 pictures of royal graves of the kings of Poland, eventually published in the book Monumenta Regnum Poloniae Cracoviensia. He also started a successful career as a civil servant and clerk.[1] Shortly before his death he moved to Łódź, where he died on 25 May 1847, during a severe typhoid fever epidemics.[1] One of his six children, , continued his engraving shop in Warsaw.[1]

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Citations[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Bartczakówna, pp. 166-167.

Bibliography[]

  • (in Polish) Maria Bartczakówna (1946). "Dietrich Fryderyk Krzysztof (1779-1847)". In Władysław Konopczyński (ed.). Polski Słownik Biograficzny [Polish Biographical Dictionary]. V. pp. 166–167.


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