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- Estienne Hubert l'aine
- Also known as
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Estienne Hubert l'aine
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primary name: Hubert, Estienne
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other name: Estienne Hubert l'aine
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other name: Hubert, Estienne the elder
- Details
- individual; clockmaker/watchmaker; Dutch; Huguenot; French; Male
- Life dates
- 1660-1716
- Other dates
- 1659-1734 (active)
- Address
- Amsterdam, Holland
- Biography
- Estienne Hubert l'aine (the elder, born 1634) established as watchmaker in Rouen, served as a jure in that city from 1659. He presumably converted to Catholicism as he was still working in Rouen in 1702. Estienne Hubert had five sons, Estienne (1660-1716 q.v.), David (1685-1755 q.v.) settled in London, became a successful clock and watchmaker and founded in 1747 the French Protestant Charity School, Westminster and Jacques (1667-c.1710) also established in London as a watchmaker. Another brother Thobie Hubert (1666-1730) was established as a watchmaker in Leiden.
Estienne Hubert the younger fled originally to London, then travelled to The Hague and joined his relative Robert Hubert (1639-1720) in Amsterdam. Robert, probably this Etienne Hubert's uncle, also from Rouen was the son of Noel Hubert.
Estienne Hubert the younger was the father of Jacques Hubert (q.v.) and father in law of Jean Hubert.
J.H.Leopold in 'Huguenot Watchmaking in the Netherlands' published in Huguenot Heritage Issue 14 (2005) in New York writes
'The largest network was probably that of the Hubert family, who descended from a large clockmaking family of Rouen. The most important maker in the Netherlands was Etienne Hubert the Elder of Amsterdam; then there were his brother(?) Robert and Robert's son Etienne the Younger and there were more Huberts in Leiden and Dordrecht. Moreover Etienne the elder married a girl named Hebert and so became related to the casemaker Pierre Hebert of The Hague and through him to Samuel Ruel of Rotterdam. The Heberts were also related to two watchmakers in Delft: Claude de la Porte and Jean Philippe Fouache. The family networks obviously favoured trade, and indeed we find there was a lot of cooperation among the various Huguenot makers'.
- Bibliography
- Tardy (1972), "Dictionnaire des Horlogers Francais", Tardy Paris
Loomes, B. (2006). "Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World", N.A.G. Press, London
Britten, F.J. (1986). "Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers - A History of Styles in Clocks and Watches and their Mechanisms", Bloomsbury Books, London
Enrico Morpurgo, Nedelands klokken-en horlogemakers vanaf 1300, 1970
