J. A. BRANDEGGER, F. SCHNEIDER, J. CH. DIBOLD, J. C. GARTHE UND W. MÜLLER: WENIG BEKANNTE DEUTSCHE GLOBENHERSTELLER DES SPÄTEN 18. UND DES 19. JAHRHUNDERTS

During the 19 th century, the German-speaking region knew not only a number of major globe publishers, but also small firms trying to do business by producing and selling terrestrial, celestial and induction globes. One of them was Joseph August Brandegger (1797-1890) at Ellwangen in Württemberg. He sold terrestrial globes of 32 cm diameter, „entwickelt und gezeichnet von G Baur, ausgeführt in der Art. Anstalt von F. Malte“ (developed and drawn by C. Baur, executed by F. Malte in his fine arts printers), as well as "Brandegger's Children's Globe" and Induction Globes of his own invention. In 1843, Franz Johann Peter Schneider, born in Göttingen in 1818, produced terrestrial globes with a diameter of 13.4 cm in his lithographic printing shop at Hannoversch Münden. Of Johann Christoph Dibold (1747-1818), Prorector at the Durlach Pädagogium, we know that he produced two pairs of manuscript globes, each consisting of one terrestrial and one celestial globe, with diameters measuring 22 cm and 60 cm, respectively. Their inscriptions are French. On the smaller globes, the word "l'écrevisse" instead of "cancer" is used for the constellation and the tropic of cancer. Dr. Johann Caspar Garthe (1795-1876) at Rinteln in Hesse constructed a "Cosmoglobe" consisting of a glass sphere representing the celestial globe, with a movable terrestrial globe inside the sphere, the globe being equipped with a horizon ring. This apparatus was also to be sold in England, but Garthe's sales agent, Dr. Wilhelm Müller, produced a similar "Cosmospherical Instrument" for which he took out a patent. Dr. Wilhelm Müller (1783-1846) came from Stade near Hamburg. After military service in the Kingdom of Hanover he was employed as librarian to the Duke of Cambridge from 1814 to 1834.