born in Schleiz / Thurengia

went to Berlin to start a education as Pharmacist. His contacts to Alchemists made him known to be a gold maker.

Böttger fleed from Prussia to Saxony to start studies of medicine in Magdeburg . The King of Saxony - August der Starke - knew about him, inprisoned him at the fortress of Königstein and needed him to make gold.

Together with the mathematican and physicist Tschirnhaus he invented the European porcelain.

The king set Johann August free and made him to the leader of the Royal Saxon Porcellain Manufactory that moved soon to Meissen After the attempt to sell the receipe of porcellain to Prussia Johann August was arrested.

Johann August Böttger died in Dresden