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Ferdinand Adolph Lange n’était d’ailleurs pas seul dans l’aventure, pas plus qu’il n’était un inconnu à la cour pour avoir été l’apprenti de Johann Christian Friedrich Gutkaes, horloger du roi depuis 1842, avant de devenir son beau-fils.
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And yet nothing predisposed the town to become a centre for watchmaking – ravaged by war and epidemics, clinging to the last of a moribund ore mining industry and vain attempts to farm the wooded mountains, by the mid-nineteenth century the population was living in grinding poverty. Nothing, that is, except the uncontained enthusiasm of the Prince-Electors and later the Kings of Saxony for scientific instruments (the Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon at the Zwinger in Dresden is dazzling proof). Without them, Glashütte would almost certainly have remained on the sidelines of history, a small town in the shadow of the region’s capital. Ferdinand Adolph Lange (1815-1875) would decide otherwise. A watchmaker by trade, on his return, in 1841, from four years spent in Switzerland and France, he was intent on setting up his own workshop where he could put to use the experience gained with foreign makers. He convinced the royal government of Saxony to finance his project through sheer persistence, and the promise it would revive the fortunes of Glashütte thanks to the introduction of a new industry which happened to chime perfectly with the ruling class’s fascination with measuring instruments. Lange was no stranger to the court, having been apprenticed to Johann Christian Friedrich Gutkaes, royal watchmaker since 1842 whose daughter he later married. Nor was he alone in this adventure, bringing with him Adolf Schneider (Gutkaes’ other son-in-law) and his own son-in-law Julius Assmann. Together with Moritz Grossmann, the quartet was complete.