Amalia Pachelbel

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Commemorative plaque in Erfurt. The German text reads: "Here lived Amalie Pachelbel (1688–1723). Author of the first knitting patterns textbook."

Amalia Pachelbel (29 October [

watercolors, copper engravings and porcelain pieces. In 1715 she married notary J. G. Beer.[1] She died in Nuremberg in 1723. In 1730, seven years after her death, she was included in Doppelmayr's encyclopedia of important mathematicians and artists of Nuremberg
(Historische Nachricht von den Nürnbergischen Mathematicis und Künstlern), as was her father.

A commemorative plaque installed on a house in Erfurt where the Pachelbel family lived gives Amalia's name as "Amalie" and mentions her as the "author of the first knitting pattern (formula) textbook".

Notes

  1. ^ "Amalie Pachelbel at Erfurt-Web.de - Die Erfurt Enzyklopädie". Archived from the original on May 18, 2005. Retrieved 2007-12-08.

References

  • Welter, Kathryn Jane. 1998. Johann Pachelbel: Organist, Teacher, Composer. A Critical Reexamination of His Life, Works, and Historical Significance. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (dissertation).