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Melchior Küsel

engraver from Germany

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 5, 2025
Entity authorityQ6812010 ↗
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Melchior Küsel (1626, Augsburg – 1684, Augsburg) was a German engraver.

Life

According to Houbraken he made 24 engravings after Johann Wilhelm Baur of the Passion of Christ but also a series after Ovid.

According to the RKD, he illustrated Bibles.

He was probably the brother of the engraver Mathäus Küsel. His daughter, Johanna Sibylla, married his pupil, the engraver Johann Ulrich Kraus.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Melchior Küsel” as engraver from Germany. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1626, 1684—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1626-08-17. The account is most persuasive where Melchior, Küsel and engraver can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as engraver from Germany. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 5, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6812010. VIAF identifies the subject as 37191013. The Library of Congress control number is n89664723. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1626 and 1684.

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This entry incorporates text from “Melchior Küsel” 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.