Paulus Johann Eder
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www.heimatforschung-regensburg.de eForum Paulus, Johann Eder The Arrival in Spain As we have seen in Ponz’s report on Eder’s recruitment in Copenhagen, he was asked to come to Spain
. This did not only ena- ble him to bring along his wife Ursula, his grown-up sons Joseph and Lorenz, with whom he had already worked in Sweden and Norway (His third son, Johann, had stayed in Sweden.). It also allowed him, at his discretion, to recruit other glassmakers, whom he found qualified and with whom he got along well with. Thus, the German glass engravers family Gubbe 60
61 Johann Wentzel Gubbe had initially worked in Swe- den, from 1735, onwards, at Kungsholm 62 and finally, 1744, at the glassworks of Limmared. 63
After that, he had gone to Norway like Eder, before accompanying him to Spain. The broth- ers Heinrich, Daniel, Johann and Siegismund Brun 64 followed and arrived at San Ildefonso a few months later, in January 1751. 65 Eder had also worked with these Germans, already in Norway. 66 Moreover, there are indications suggesting a kinship between the Eder and the Brun families. The Brun brothers had brought along their mother, while their father continued to work in Norway. 67
The Brun family also settled down in Spain, and their descendants continued to work at San Ildefonso. Siegismund, who later on called himself Simon Brun, in 1770 became director of the newly established forth section at San Ildefonso, the „Fábrica Segunda de Entrefinos“. 68
Another document brought forward, recently, gives insight into Eder’s first days at San Ild e- fonso: The Royal Archives of the Palace in Madrid keep a revealing report, written down on 5 th
October 1750, a fortnight after Eder’s arrival. 69 Its author is Marqués de Galiano intendant of the Royal Site of San Ildefonso. Its addressee was José de Carvajal y Láncaster (1698
1754),
royal counsellor and president of the Council of Commerce and Mint („Junta de Comercio y Moneda“). Therein, de Galiano refers to a meeting with Johann Eder. Besides details on Eder’s glass recipes he describes the German glassmaker as a man of few words but good character ( „hombre de pocas palabras, y bueno!“ ), whose determined approach
60 Other spellings: Guba, Goba. 61 Paloma P ASTOR R
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, Historia de la Real Fábrica de Crystales de San Ildefonso durante la Epoca de la Ilustración (1727 1810), San Ildefonso 1994, p. 149, as well as Eliseo D E P ABLOS Y V IEJO
, La Real Fábrica de Crystales de la Granja. Su significación histórica y la fabricación de vidrios planos de grandes dimensiones, p. 87-97 (p. 89), in: José Manuel I GLESIAS G IL , Cursos sobre el patrimonio histórico 3. Actas de los IX cursos monográficos sobre el patrimonio histórico, Reinosa 1998. 62 Heribert S EITZ , Äldre svenska glas med graverad dekor, Stockholm 1936, p. 203. 63 Ö
, Limmared, as above note 26, p. 27. 64 Other spellings: Brum, Braun. 65 P ASTOR R EY DE
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, Historia, as above note 61, p. 150. 66 Friendly advice by Mrs. Anne M INKEN . 67 Friendly advices by Mrs. Anne M INKEN
, as well as by D R . P ASTOR P ALOMA
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. 68 P ASTOR R EY DE V IÑAS
, Historia, as above note 61, p. 154-155. 69 A.G.P., San Ildefonso. Caja, 13.584; My special thanks to Mr. Herlander Miguel F RANCISCO , Maceira, Portugal, for the copy of that document.. 12
www.heimatforschung-regensburg.de eForum Paulus, Johann Eder obviously impressed him. That document, based on a conversation with Johann Eder, shall be given as a translation: „Yesterday evening, I called for Juan Eder, the German master, and his companions to come to my house. He had already been to Portugal to establish the production of crystal, together with 32 Germans. After seven months, he returned to his country, as things did not go well in Portugal. I asked him various questions to learn some- thing about his way of operation and his recipes, assisted by a poor and worthless interpret- er, found on the spot. My questions were answered adequately and I became assured that you will be satisfied with his work. He appeared to me as a man of few words but good! Traits which can be seen from his face. He asked me for four hundred bushels of ashes of oak-wood, sufficient for six months. I have given order to Sr. Domingo Sani, that all ashes from the hearths, as they burn day and night, particularly in winter, shall be collected and delivered to the servants, to be stored. And, though he reassured me that ashes of any kind of wood would be good, he explained that yonder was the best. Of the stone [limestone?] suitable for his composition, he would store sufficient quantity, as he made me understand. The deeper the stone was found, the whiter it is, and consequently the whiter becomes the crystal. Thus, his composition would consist of ashes, stone, arsenic and salpetre. He told me that he did not want Frenchmen to work with him but only Spaniards, whom he would teach in everything that he knew. He suggested choosing willing and striving men, so that they took advantage of their time to the profit of the King. They gave me a wooden mod- el after which their iron blowpipes should be made. Today, they have begun to trace the fur- nace and to level the spot where it shall be built, and the Germans are already preparing the pité. You can be assured that it will not take long until everything is prepared and that they will not fall short of anything. You are requested to arrange that they will not lack salpetre nor other materials which they may ask M. Berger for.” De Galiano’s impression proved to be correct: The expectations of the Spanish Court on Jo- hann Eder and his collaborators were more than fulfilled. The „Fábrica de Entrefinos“ at San Ildefonso, established and managed by him, became an enterprise which was both techno- logically and economically successful. After Johann Eder’s death in 1753 it was carried on by his son Joseph. It flourished and gained international recognition 70
70 Cf. P
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