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Christoffel Jegher

Flemish Baroque engraver (1596–1652)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 7, 2025
Entity authorityQ1976706 ↗
Source-derived summary

Christoffel Jegher (1596, Antwerp – 1652, Antwerp) was a Flemish Baroque engraver.

Biography

According to the RKD he was the father of the engraver Jan Christoffel. He became a master in the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke in 1628. He collaborated with Rubens on woodcuts (he named his youngest son Pieter Paul after him). His son later assisted him with his prints.

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“Christoffel Jegher” enters the record as flemish Baroque engraver (1596–1652). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Christoffel, Jegher and Flemish can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1596, 1652, 1628—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1596-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Christoffel, Jegher and Flemish.
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“Christoffel Jegher” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Christoffel, Jegher and Flemish provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 7, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1976706. VIAF identifies the subject as 44138889. The Library of Congress control number is nr00033774. 4 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1596, 1652 and 1628.

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This entry incorporates text from “Christoffel Jegher” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.