----- Original Message ----- From: "Paula Goblirsch" <paulagoblirsch@gmail.com> To: <GERMAN-BOHEMIAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 8:00 AM Subject: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] Fwd: Friedrich - ancient glassmaking dynasty from Northern Bohemia > ---------- Forwarded message ----------From: Eberhard C. Friedrich > <ebfried2000@yahoo.de>Date: May 16, 2006 11:38 PMSubject: Friedrich - > ancient glassmaking dynasty from Northern BohemiaTo: > paulagoblirsch@gmail.com > > > Dear Mrs. Goblirsch, > I found your email adress on the website of the German BohemianHeritage > Society. > My family derives from an ancient German Northern Bohemiam family. > Now, after more than 40 years of research, my father Walter Friedrichhas > published a book which might be interresting for some of yoursociety > members. > Kind regards from Frankfurt, GermanyEberhard C. Friedrich > ________________________________ > > Friedrich - ancient glassmaking dynasty from Northern > Bohemiahttp://www.glasmacher-friedrich.de/According to the latest > archaeological findings, the Friedrich fromNorthern Bohemia could be the > most ancient glassmaking dynasty in theworld. Ten years after the > discovery of America they founded aglassworks in Oberkreibitz (today: > Chřibská) - close to their originalglassworks in Friedrichsdorf that > operated around the year 1250 -which was to become one of the most > important sites of the Renaissanceglass industry. From there the Friedrich > spread throughout Europe andsome went to Northern America. Now the > historian Walter A. Friedrich,a descendant of the medieval glass-masters, > has written acomprehensive chronicle of the Friedrich family and of the > earlyhistory of glass making in Northern Bohemia. (Website and book are > inGerman) > Some information in English on the glassmaker dynasty Friedrich(including > an ancient painting of the family of Martin Friedrich jr.,glass-master of > the German Emperor Rudolf II, from 1596) can be foundon this Czech site: > http://www.luzicke-hory.cz/glass.html#renais > > > ==== GERMAN-BOHEMIAN Mailing List ==== > Visit the German-Bohemian Heritage Society Web Page! > http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ Mts GoblirscjL Are your anxestordFrom HAID, AND IF THEY ARE, SRE YOU RELATED TO A wOLFGANG GOBLIRISCH? wE SRE WORKING ON THE FAMILY TREE, AND EXCHANGING INFORMATION. THANK YOU JEAN IN FL >