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Zieseler (Ziesler), Hans (um 1585-1637) |
Johann resp. Hans Zieseler or Hans Ziesler. Born as a son of a mintmaster in Molsheim/Alsace. From 1613 to 1616 Zieseler worked for Count Philipp of Solms, first as an assistant, later as a mintmaster. From 1616 until 1620 appointed mintmaster for Count Christian of Waldeck, then for the duke of Saxony-Eisenach and Körner. There Zieseler was dismissed because of irregularities and was sentenced to a fine of 7,195 Reichstalers, while his property was seized. Unil the 31.10.1622 he was imprisoned. In the same year he was a mintmaster for the margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth. In the end of January 1624 he became mintmaster in Neumarkt in the Upper-Palatinate. When the upper-palatinian mints were closed, he was arrested again in 1626. After leaving prison in the same year, Zieseler leased the mint in Breslau. From 1626 until 1630 he was a mintmaster for Wallenstein in Sagan. in addition, together with Hans Heinrich Jacob Ziesler was leaseholder of the Sagan mint from 1629 to 1631. Afterwards Zieseler returned as a mintmaster to Breslau (Wroclaw) in 1627, where he died in 1637. Zieseler signs with three Zainhaken arranged in a fan-shape pattern (mintmaster's tools). Lit.: E. Götz, Die Münzprägung der Oberpfalz (1992) pp. 172-173; I. Halačka, Regierungsmünzen der Länder der böhmischen Krone 1526-1856 I (2011) pp. 339-343; O. Kozinowski - J. Otto - H. Ruß, Die Münzen des Fürsten- und Herzogtums Coburg von 1577 bis 1918 I (2005) pp. 133-134, 179; Lit.: H. Poley, Albrecht von Wallenstein (Waldstein) Herzog von Friedland und seine Münzen (2014) p. 115; E. Nohejlová-Prátová, Das Münzwesen Albrechts von Wallenstein (1969) p. 46. |
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Leaseholder  , Mintmaster (MM Mod) |
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https://d-nb.info/gnd/1199263435 |
VIAF |
http://viaf.org/viaf/6157413599316051607 |
https://mmlo.de/12126 |
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