Hermann Krone, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Hermann Krone

German photographer

Date of Birth: 14-Sep-1827

Place of Birth: Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 17-Sep-1916

Profession: photographer, chemist, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Hermann Krone

  • Hermann Krone (14 September 1827 – 17 September 1916) was a photographer from Saxony, Germany, who was born in Breslau.
  • His father was a lithographer and he began an apprenticeship with him 1843.
  • He produced his first calotype and daguerreotype photographs in 1843.
  • He opened a studio in Leipzig in 1851 and in Dresden from 1852.
  • He took landscape photographs of Saxon Switzerland.
  • He married Clementine Blochmann and had four children including Sigismund Ernst Richard Krone. In 1855 he worked with collodion dry plates and in 1869 he established a publishing house.
  • In 1872 he completed a photo book with views of 142 cities in the Kingdom of Saxony.
  • He went on a journey to the Auckland Islands in 1874 to observe the passage of Venus in front of the sun and returned home via Australia and India.
  • He published a compilation of his poetry in four volumes between 1899 and 1902.
  • He also published The Standard Photographic Methods Retaining their Practical Value Forever (Die für alle Zeit von praktischem Wert bleibenden Photographischen Urmethoden) and established a museum of photography.
  • In 1916 he died in Laubegast near Dresden.Krone is commemorated by a tablet at Bastei where he who took the first landscape photographs at the Bastei Bridge in 1853.
  • The M-1306 Hermann Krone (Kriegsmarine), an auxiliary minesweeper, was sunk during World War II.
  • It struck a mine and sank in the Skaggerak off Hanstholm, Denmark.

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