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Thurneysen [Thourneysser], Johann Jakob, I
(b Basle, 15 June 1636; d Basle, 15 Feb 1711). Swiss engraver and etcher. After studying in Strasbourg (1652–5) under Pieter Aubry II (1610–86) he worked in Lyon (1656–9) and then from 1659 to 1661 in Turin, then in the service of Charles-Emmanuel II, 14th Duke of Savoy, before returning to Lyon in 1661. Working in Basle from 1681, he was called to Vienna by the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I in 1695, and subsequently travelled to Prague and Nuremberg (1697) and Augsburg (1698, 1699), where he was employed by the publisher Jeremias Wolff (1663–1724), before returning to Basle in 1699.
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