Jakob Stampfer

Hans Jakob Stampfer (1505/6– 2 July 1579) was a gold smith and medalist of Zürich in the age of Bullinger (antistes 1531–1575).

He was the son of gold smith Hans Ulrich Stampfer and of Regula Funk and learned the same trade both from his father and during journeyman years in Germany, likely Augsburg (Meyer 1871 mentions a strong influence by German medalist Friedrich Hagenauer, who was in Augsburg during 1526–1532).

At least 26 distinct medals by Stampfer are known, not including his production of coins for circulation, made during the period of 1531 to 1566.

Jacob Stampfer was the first member of a "dynasty" of medalists that remained active in Zürich until the 1680s.

One Hans Ulrich Stampfer, possibly a brother of Jacob's, is recorded as active during 1561–1579.