Bow & Bridge Violin and bow makers, as the old books printed them

Hopf, Friedrich Gottlieb

Historical maker

Named in 2 books.

What the books printed

Die Geigen- und Lautenmacher vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart, 1904. Page 299, scan 321.

Hopf, Friedrich Gottlieb. — Klingenthal. 1739. 1768.

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Die Geigen und Lautenmacher vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart, 1922. Page 227, scan 231.

Hopf, Friedrich Gottlieb. — Klingenthal. 1739.

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Entries from 2 books stand under this name, and we are not sure they mean the same person. That is on hold until somebody settles it.

Same name

Hopf, C. Aug
No town printed · b. 1832
Hopf, C. Fried
No town printed · b. 1811, d. 1892
Hopf, Carl August
Brunndöbra · b. 1832, d. 1918
Hopf, Carl Friedr
No town printed · b. 1811, d. 1892
Hopf, Carl Friedrich
Klingenthal · b. 1811, d. 1892
Hopf, Casp
No town printed · 1690

Whether any of these is the same person, the books do not say. 17 more Hopf pages under H.

Same town, same time

77 other Klingenthal makers have a year in the 1700s. A few of them:

All Klingenthal makers

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