Johann Christian Schuchardt

At the age of thirteen, he attended the Weimar Princely Free Drawing School.

From 1820 to 1824, apparently seeking a more secure source of income, he studied law at the University of Jena.

Upon graduating, he found a position as an Assessor with the government of the Grand Duchy of Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach.

In 1825, upon the recommendation of Johann Heinrich Meyer, Director of the drawing school, he was appointed Secretary and Supervisor of the Grand Duchy's graphic collections.

In 1848 and 1849, he brought out the three volumes of Goethe’s Kunstsammlungen, which has come to be known as the "Schuchardt-Katalog", published by Friedrich Johannes Frommann in Jena.