Maker Info
David Beringer
David Beringer was born in Germany. His father, Friederich Beringer was an ironsmith. Beringer became a master compassmacher in 1777 in Nuremberg. Other documents in the state archives at Nuremberg refer to him as Mechanicus auf Compass und Sonnenringmacher, a maker of compass dials and ring dials.
Beringer is best known for portable wooden sundials with scales printed on paper glued to the wood. These included cube dials and diptych dials.
Some of Beringer's sundials were collaborations made with Georg Paul Seyfried, who was also a master compassmacher. Seyfried became a master in 1776, so the Beringer -Seyfried dials likely date from 1777 on.
Beringer died in 1821 at the age of 65 from an accident.