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Medalist and coin engraver, trained in Guenzburg and active there until 1777. From 1777-92 he worked at the Milan mint. With Napoleon's arrival he fled to Vienna and Prague, where he was first engraver at the mint from 1796. Often worked with F. Stuckhardt. See Forrer 2, pp. 342-43; 7, p. 405; Thieme-Becker 15, pp. 309-10. --- from The Molinari Collection, Andrea S. Norris and Ingrid Weber, Published by Bowdoin College, 1976