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