Arnold Wilhelm Spilhaus

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Arnold Wilhelm Spilhaus (born December 1, 1845 in Lübeck , † October 11, 1946 in Cape Town ) was a South African businessman and bryologist of German origin .

Life

Family and education

The Evangelical baptized, born in Lübeck Arnold Wilhelm Spilhaus, the second oldest of six children of Christian Ludwig Spilhaus (1815-1906) and its from Haderslev in Denmark coming Spouse Caroline Henriette born Wassner (1816-1880), completed after his compulsory education training as a merchant . Arnold Wilhelm Spilhaus married Lydia Maria (1843–1920), the daughter of Captain James Sedgwick, in 1873 . This connection had four daughters and three sons. Spilhaus, who acquired the Hohenort country house in Cape Town in 1906 , died in autumn 1946 at the old age of 100.

Professional career

After completing his apprenticeship, the Spilhaus moved to Durban in 1869 , where he first explored business opportunities in Mozambique and the Zambezi . In 1871 he moved to Cape Town, where he opened a branch for a Hamburg company. In December 1876, Arnold Wilhelm Spilhaus and Herbert Willman founded a company that operated under the name Wilman, Spilhaus & Co. This company, which originally specialized in the trade in wool, skins and imported products, subsequently expanded its business interests, including the diamond trade. An important step in this development was achieved in the early 1900s with the importation of South Africa's first mower binders . After Herbert Willman withdrew in 1895, Arnold Wilhelm Spilhaus continued to run the company, renamed William Spilhaus & Co, on his own. In 1915 it was converted into a GmbH .

Additional activities

The passionate amateur painter of landscapes in watercolors and oil Arnold Wilhelm Spilhaus, who fluently spoke many European languages, collected plants, including mosses , which he made available to the Lübeck Museum in the 1870s . In 1899 Carl Müller described a Bartramia spielhausii (= Breutelia aristaria var. Plumosa) .

Publications

  • Random thoughts , Rustica Press, Wynberg 1943
  • Final thoughts , Rustica Press, Wynberg 1944
  • April 2045: a few poems to Johannesburg, 1887 , Spilhaus, Cape Town 1945
  • Our immortal soul , Rustica Press, Wynberg 1945
  • The hundredth birthday: December 1st, 1945 , Spilhaus Family, Wynberg 1945

literature

  • Who's who of Southern Africa, Ken Donaldson (Pty.) Ltd., Johannesburg 1919, p. 191.
  • South African who's who, Ken Donaldson, Cape Town, pp. 487, 489.
  • Margaret Whiting Spilhaus (Ed.): Arnold Wilhelm Spilhaus: Reminiscences and Family Records , Standard Press, Cape Town 1950
  • Lawrence George Green: I heard the old men say; secrets of the Cape that has vanished, and little-known dramas on the fringe of living memory, H. Timmins, Cape Town 1964, p. 34 f.
  • Harold William Carolin, Lappe Laubscher, Gideon Nieman: The Carolin papers: a diary of the 1906/07 Springbok tour, Rugbyana Publishers CC, Pretoria 1990, ISBN 978-0620145008 , pp. 93, 243.
  • EJ Verwey (Ed.): New Dictionary of South Africa Biography: Vol 1, HSRC Press, Pretoria, Johannesburg 1995, ISBN 978-0796916488 , p. 596.
  • Spilhaus, Arnold Wilhelm (1845–1946) In: Jan-Peter Frahm; Jens Eggert: Lexicon of German-speaking bryologists, Volume 1, Page 498 , Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2001, ISBN 978-3831109869 .
  • Peter Elliott: The Spilhaus Family. Five Hundred Years of History ( 1450-1950 ) , Cape Town 2015, ISBN 978-1-710-87348-1

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personal data
SURNAME Spilhaus, Arnold Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African businessman and bryologist of German origin
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1946
Place of death Cape Town