Early Life
Neumann was born in house No. 12 on Schiffgasse street, Eger, Kingdom of Bohemia, now known as Cheb, Czech Republic, the seventh of nine children of cloth-maker Hans Christoph Neumann. He was baptized on January 30, 1687.
His first apprenticeship was spent working at the foundry of his godfather Balthasar Platzer but he changed at the beginning of the 18th Century to Sebald Koch in Würzburg where, in 1711, he received his Apprenticeship certificate. In 1712, he joined the Franconian artillery as a private because this was the only path to follow for Neumann to have a military career as an engineer. He perfected his skills through studies in the field of fortress architecture.
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