Fryderyk Krzysztof Dietrich

[1] He then left for Augsburg to study the art of engraving with Johann D. Herz and then with Christian Haldenwang in Karlsruhe.

He stayed briefly in Amsterdam, London, Berlin and Poznań before finally settling in Warsaw, where he opened the first engraving shop in the city.

[1] In 1819 his new benefactor, Stanisław Kostka Potocki, awarded him with a government contract for 24 pictures of royal graves of the kings of Poland, eventually published in the book Monumenta Regnum Poloniae Cracoviensia.

[1] Shortly before his death he moved to Łódź, where he died on 25 May 1847, during a severe typhoid fever epidemics.

[1] One of his six children, Fryderyk Adolf Dietrich, continued his engraving shop in Warsaw.