Robert Knöfel

Gottlieb Robert Knöfel (born February 5, 1834 in Wilsdruff near Dresden, Germany, June 14, 1884) was a German shoemaker, founder of the Dresdner Arbeiterbildungsverein (1860) and town councilor in Dresden (1862-1866) > Edit LifeQualtext

Knoefel learned from his father the shoemaker's craft, went on a hiking tour and worked for five years in Weimar, where he also took classes in drawing, geometry and anatomy. After passing the master's examination in Dresden in 1860, he founded a workers' education association, in which he taught the subjects drawing, geometry, anatomy and accounting to young professionals. Knoefel gave lectures all over Germany, took part in the "Congress of the Austro-Hungarian Shoemakers" in 1873 and settled down in Vienna. He founded the Wiener Schuhmacherzeitung in 1875, opened the "Wiener Schuhmacherzeitung" in 1875, and in 1876 opened a private "Viennese school of shoemakers", for which he received official approval in 1879. Knöfel developed the so-called "Winckel-System" for the production of patterns and influenced the development of the shoemaker's trade all over Europe with teaching and technical books, including the "Lehrbuch der Fußbekleidung-Art" (1872) Edit source text Standard data (person): GND: 136098371 (PICA, AKS) | VIAF: 80500608 Wikipedia People Search

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