Willibald Imhoff (1519-1580)
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https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/persinst/62692
- Name (English)
- Willibald Imhoff
- Short name
- Willibald Imhoff
- Year of birth
- 1519
- Year of death
- 1580
- Short Description
- "Willibald Imhoff (born 16 November 1519 in Nuremberg, Germany, died 25 January 1580) was an art collector of the famous Nuremberg Imhoff family, and the grandson of Willibald Pirckheimer. He was a wealthy partner in the Imhoff trading company. In his youth, Imhoff stayed in his family´s trading offices in Lyon and Antwerp to learn wholesale and long-distance trade. In 1540-42 he traveled to France and then to 1544 Spain. In 1545 he married Anna Harsdörffer (1528-1601), daughter of Wolff Harsdörffer and Ehrentraud Welser. Even after that he regularly made trips to Lyon and Zaragoza as a partner of the trading company." - (en.wikipedia.org 18.10.2020)
- Entity Encoding
- piz
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