Johann Wilhelm Dilich, 1636
(Copper engraving by Sebastian Furck)

Johann Wilhelm Dilich (1600 – 1657) worked between 1628 and 1657 as an engineer and master builder in Frankfurt am Main.

Born in Kassel, we was the son of master builder Wilhelm Dilich.[1] He used instruments made by the imperial instrument maker Erasmus Habermehl (died in 1606 in Prague). Dilich had uniform leather cases produced for these devices:

  • Octagonal vertical sundial signed "Erasmus Habermehl fecit 89"
  • Conversion plate with slide signed "Erasmus habermehl"
  • Octagonal vertical sundial signed "E.H.fecit"
  • Theodolite signed "Erasmus Habermehl"
  • Round vertical sundial

Works

  • Peribologia oder Bericht Wilhelmi Dilichij Hist: Von Vestungsgebewen Vieler orter, as well as with native reasons and published by Johannem Wilhelmum Dilichium, Frankfurt 1640
  • Peribologia Seu Muniendorum Locor[um] Ratio Wilhelmi Dilichii, Edita Sumptus Et Typos Suppedi Tante Joanne Wilhelmo Dilichio F: Architecto, Frankfurt 1641
  • Kurtzer Unterricht Wie auff Unterschiedene Arten mann einen fürgegebenen Platz Fortificiren kan, Frankfurt 1642
  • His drawings of the Frankfurt fortress were kept in the city archive and were lost during the Second World War.

Bibliography

  • Tobias Büchi: Das Festungsbuch Wilhelm & Johann Wilhelm Dilichs, in Scholion 3, 2004, p. 187-190.

References

  1. ↑ Franz Lerner (1957), "Dilich, Wilhelm", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 3, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, p. 718; (full text online)
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