Johann Pucher, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Johann Pucher

Slovenian catholic priest, inventor and photographer

Date of Birth: 26-Aug-1814

Place of Birth: Kranj, Kranj City Municipality, Slovenia

Date of Death: 07-Aug-1864

Profession: photographer, writer, poet, inventor, Catholic priest, painter

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Johann Augustin Pucher (Slovene: Janez Avguštin Puhar or Ivan Pucher; 26 August 1814 – 7 August 1864) was a Slovene priest, scientist, photographer, artist, and poet who invented an unusual process for making photographs on glass. Although his were not the first glass photographs, Pucher's process was unique.
It was the only 19th-century photography technique that was not based on expensive silver halide chemistry but was still sensitive enough to use in a camera, with exposure times comparable to those of the daguerreotype and calotype.
(Other non-silver processes, such as the cyanotype, were practical only for making prints or photograms in direct sunlight.) Modern testing of Pucher's photographs has confirmed their chemically unusual nature.
However, his process was never commercialized, and attempts to recreate it based on published information have been unsuccessful.



Alternative names	Janez Avguštin Puhar, Johann Pucher (Western European version)
Description	Austrian scientist, inventor, photographer, writer, artist and priest
Date of birth/death	26 August 1814	7 August 1864
Location of birth/death	Kranj	Kranj
Authority control	: Q3499408 VIAF: 266287892 ISNI: 0000 0003 8258 9340 LCCN: n2015026318 GND: 1027031986 NKC: xx0193078 WorldCat