Georg Christoph Eimmart

Georg Christoph Eimmart the Younger (1638 to 1705) was a German engraver, draughtsman, mathematician and astronomer who lived and worked in Nuremberg. Born in Regensburg, he was trained by his father, Georg Christoph Eimmart the Elder, who was also an engraver and a painter of portraits, landscapes, still life and historical subjects, and he studied at the University of Jena from 1654 to 1658. He settled in Nuremberg, where he made plates for Joachim von Sandrart's Academia and small etchings of ruins, buildings and vases ornamented with figures. His standing in the history of science rests on his founding of the first astronomical observatory in Nuremberg, and in 1701 he published Iconographia nova contemplationum de Sole, a work on the Sun. The lunar crater Eimmart is named after him. His daughter Maria Clara Eimmart was a designer and engraver who usually worked with him and married the astronomer Johann Heinrich Müller.