Sachgebiete

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circa 25,5 x 21 cm., 1 leaf, text on both sides. folded Letter by the author Friedrich Noesselt who was professor for history at the Maria-Magdalenen-Gymnasium in Wroclaw. He is telling a "Sophie" about his sons and other acquaintances. Of particular interest are his informations about his son Albert, who is recorded in multiple contemporary publications as an inventor and "Mechanikus". In 1844 for instance he presented a levelling instrument, a galvanic battery and crystal lattices at the industrial exhibition in Berlin (cf. Neukrantz, A. F. Ausführlicher Bericht über die große, allgemeine deutsche Gewerbe-Ausstellung in Berlin im Jahre 1844... Berlin 1845, p. 282). Here Friedrich Noesselt says that Albert is giving up daguerreotypy as there are two others in Breslau who specialize in that field. Zygmunt Wielowiejski in his study about the beginnings of photography in Breslau does not mention Noesselt and can only speculate about the early years since 1839. The first recorded evidence he can find, is from this very year 1843 - "in 1843, Hermann Krone, who came from Breslau, and who later became a renowned daguerreotypist and photographer in Dresden, began experimenting with photography. At that time he was also studying at the University of Breslau and before he left the city for good in 1849, he made talbotypes and then daguerreotypes, of which nine have survived. In the same year, the first two professional daguerreotypists arrived in Breslau. Julius Brill was the first to open a studio. Later seven travelling daguerreotypists arrived in the city..." (Zygmunt Wielowiejski. The beginnings of photography in Breslau / Zaczelo sie od dagerotypow... 2012, with english summary). - The letter by Friedrich Noesselt goes on to give a rather cruel account about the son of a common friend who apparently shot himself as a consequence of failed methods of education etc. - Important early testimony of the expansion of Daguerreotype in Eastern Europe, the relevant sentence: "Das Daguerrotypiren will er ganz einstellen, da zwei Andere sich hier damit beschäftigen." (He wants to give daguerreotype up completely as two others are occupied with that here).