Gotthelf Greiner

Johann Gotthelf Greiner (February 22. 1732 – August 12. 1797) was a German glassmaker. He is acknowledge as co-inventor of the porcelain.

Biography

Greiner was born in an old-established glassmaker’s family in Scheibe-Alsbach, Thuringia. He was a descendant of the as Schwabenhans well known Hans Greiner.

Lifework

Gotthelf Greiner invented together with his cousin and brother-in-law, Gottfried Greiner, independently to Johann Friedrich Böttger, over many years of research work, and in a little bit different chemical composition Porcelain.

His entrepreneurship provided the basics to the Turingian porcelain manufacturing. Greiner’s work and these of his sons was connected with the following foundation of porcelain manufactures:

Sources
  • Herbert Kühnert (1966), "Greiner, Gotthelf", Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB) (in German), 7, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 38–39
  • Gerhard Greiner: Der Schwabe Hans Greiner 1465–1532 - 4. und erweiterte Auflage - Mai 1995 (Familiengeschichte der Thüringer Greiner als genealogische Stammfolge über XI / XII Generationen
  • Rudi Greiner-Adam: Der Schwabenhans und seine Nachkommen – Die Gründer von Lauscha und Limbach - 2. ergänzte Auflage 2003
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