David Beringer Explained

David Beringer
Birth Date:	12 January 1756
Occupation:	Scientific instrument maker and craftsman
Spouse:	Anna Ottilia Hofmann (married 1777)

David Beringer (1756 – 1821) was a German scientific instrument maker and craftsman. Different sources report his place of birth as either Dieppe^[1] or Nuremberg.^[2] In either case, he was recorded as living in the Lorenzseite neighborhood of Nuremberg in 1798, and in Augsburg around 1776.^{[3] [4]}

Admitted as a master craftsman in 1777, the same year as his marriage to Anna Ottillia Hofmann, Beringer is known for building cubic wooden sundials, most of which bore two signatures: his own and that of G.P. Seyfried, an associate presumably affiliated with one of the local guilds, which Beringer does not appear to have joined.^[5]

Beringer died as the result of an accident in 1821.

External links

• Web site: Museo Galileo - object description. 2024-07-10.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Museo Galileo - David Beringer. catalogo.museogalileo.it. 2019-06-14.
2. Web site: Collections - National Maritime Museum. collections.rmg.co.uk. 2019-06-14.
3. Web site: Horizontal String-Gnomon Dial, by David Beringer, Augsburg, 1776 (MHS Record Details: IRN 2896, Inventory number 40334). Museum of the History of Science. en-GB. 2019-06-14.
4. Book: Michel, Henri. Instruments des sciences dans l'art et l'histoire. 1967. Viking Press. 161. en.
5. Pizzamiglio, Pier Luigi. Orologi solari da usare e da leggere: rassegna degli scritti e degli strumenti di gnomonica conservati nella Biblioteca" Carlo Viganò" e nella Collezione" Alberto Viganò". La scuola, 2004. p112