Henlein, Peter, approximately 1480-1542

LC control no.	no 92029217
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Henlein, Peter, approximately 1480-1542 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Hele, Peter, approximately 1480-1542 Hele, Petrus, approximately 1480-1542 Heinlein, Peter, approximately 1480-1542 Henlin, Peter, approximately 1480-1542 Henle, Peter, approximately 1480-1542
Associated country	Germany
Located	Nuremberg (Germany)
Birth date	1480~
Death date	1542
Place of birth	Nuremberg (Germany)
Place of death	Nuremberg (Germany)
Field of activity	Clock and watch making Locks and keys
Profession or occupation	Locksmiths Clock and watch makers
Found in	Noeldechen, W. Peter Hele, der Erfinder der Taschenuhren, 1891: t.p. (Peter Hele) Die älteste Taschenuhr der Welt?, 2014: p. 35 (inside bottom cover of timepiece signed Petrus Hele) p. 44 (Peter Henlein was never known as Hele in his everyday life in Nuremberg) p. 134 (there is no archival information about his birth or baptism; the Deutsche Zentralverband für Uhren, Schuck und Zeitmesstechnik celebrated the 500th anniversary of his birth in 1979; however this date [1479] was controversial) p. 152 (d. 1542) p. 200 (a popular date of birth, 1479, was arbitrarily and factitiously calculated; others have calculated the year of birth as "around 1485"; the plausible range of dates is 1480/1485) Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. Bio-bibliographischer Index A-Z, 2007-2009 (Henlein, Peter; b. around 1480, Nuremberg; d. 1542, Nuremberg; variants: Heinlein, Peter; Hele, Peter; Henlin, Peter; locksmith, clockmaker) Scientist's biography, viewed June 22, 2015 (Peter Henlein; b. ca. 1479/1480, Nuremberg; d. 1542; inventor of the pocket watch; locksmith) <http://scientistsbiography.info/peter-henlein-biography-inventor-of-pocket-watch> Deutsche Biographie viewed online, June 22, 2015 (Peter Henlein; b. Nuremberg, ca. 1485; d. Nuremberg between Sept. 1-14, 1542) German Wikipedia, June 22, 2015 (Peter Henlein; b. ca. 1479, Nuremberg; d. Aug. 1542, Nuremberg) Wikipedia, June 22, 2015 (Peter Henlein, also spelled Henle or Hele; b. 1485; d. Aug. 1542) FrankenWiki, June 23, 2015 (Peter Henlein, also spelled Heinlein, Hele, Henlin;. b. around 1479/1480, Nuremberg; d. Aug. 1542, Nuremberg)