Person

Name

Wächter, Georg Christoph (05.11.1729-um 1789)

Medalist and die-engraver from Heidelberg. Court medalist in Mannheim in 1770.

Wächter moved to St. Petersburg in 1771, where he died in c. 1789.

He signs with his initials GCW, sometimes with F(ecit) added, or resp. as G. C. WAECHTER.

Younger brother of Johann Georg Wächter.

Lit.: L. Forrer, Biographical dictionary of Medallists VI (1916) p. 338 (as Georg Christian Wächter).

Types

Die-cutter Info, Medalist Info

GND

https://d-nb.info/gnd/1239893256

https://mmlo.de/10385

https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/persinst/190352

VIAF

https://viaf.org/viaf/30163023593189361858

Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q50318739

Permalink

https://ikmk.smb.museum/ndp/person/2937

created

10.05.2024

changed

24.09.2024

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