Bartholomew Viatis

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Bartholomew Viatis
Viatis coat of arms

Bartholomäus Viatis (born May 18, 1538 in Venice , † November 18, 1624 in Nuremberg ) was a Nuremberg merchant.

history

Bartholomew Viatis was a native Venetian , he was sent at age twelve to Nuremberg and completed his apprenticeship at the Nuremberg spring maker Hans Wollandt. On his behalf, after seven years of apprenticeship, he went to Lyon for four years, where he made contacts with the Nuremberg trading houses Tucher and Imhoff . In 1570 he founded his own trading company with Georg Forst and Melchior Lang from Nuremberg. In 1569 he married Anna, the widow of the dressmaker Scheffer, and acquired Nuremberg citizenship.

As early as 1569, Emperor Maximilian II granted Viatis a coat of arms privilege. In the same year he acquired the Viatishaus (Viatische Haus), later named after him, on the Barfüßerbrücke in the old town of St. Lorenz, a splendid residence made up of two single houses from the 14th century that was destroyed in the Second World War.

In 1576 Viatis was appointed to the named college and in 1583 he was appointed lane captain for the area around the Barefoot Church. In 1589 Bartholomäus Viatis bought the Schoppershof manor from the profits of his flourishing company from the bankruptcy of the Gößwein-Rottenburger trading company. In 1581 he had already employed Martin Peller , whom he had met in Venice, in his company. Peller married Viatis daughter Maria in 1590 and merged with him in 1591 to form the Viatis-Peller trading company .

Bartholomäus Viatis was market manager of the Nuremberg Stock Exchange . Together with his son-in-law Martin Peller, he initiated the foundation of the Nuremberg Banco Publico in 1615 .

After the death of Bartholomäus Viatis, his two children from his first marriage, Maria and Bartholomäus the Younger, inherited his huge fortune, while Martin Peller inherited the Schoppershof manor and became the main partner in the trading company. In 1730 his descendants were able to judge and in 1818 they were enrolled in the simple Bavarian nobility. With Georg Christoph Viatis, the family died out in 1834.

coat of arms

Divided by gold and silver obliquely left with a bracke divided obliquely by black and red with a red tongue and a gold collar.

literature

Viatishaus at the Barfüßerbrücke
  • Gustav Aubin : Bartholomäus Viatis. A Nuremberg wholesale merchant before the Thirty Years War . In: Quarterly for social and economic history . Volume 33, 1940, pp. 145-157
  • Hermann Kellenbenz : Bartholomäus Viatis [1538 - 1624]. In: Publications of the Society for Franconian History. Row 7. A, Fränkische Lebensbilder . Neustadt, Aisch, Volume 1, 1967, pp. 162-181, ISSN  0435-8198 .
  • Andreas Tacke: Bartholomäus I. Viatis in portrait . In: Communications from the Association for the History of the City of Nuremberg . Nürnberg, Volume 83, 1996, pp. 57-64, ISSN  0083-5579
  • Christoph von Imhoff (Hrsg.): Famous Nuremberg from nine centuries . Hofmann, Nuremberg 1984, ISBN 3-87191-088-0 ; 2nd, supplemented and expanded edition, 1989; New edition: Edelmann GmbH Buchhandlung, 2000
  • Michael Diefenbacher : Viatis, Bartholomäus . In: Michael Diefenbacher, Rudolf Endres (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Nürnberg . 2nd, improved edition. W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-921590-69-8 ( online ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rudolf Endres: The independently acting merchants . In: Under the sign of the Libra - economy and society in transition - 425 years of Nuremberg Commercial Director , Nuremberg 1985, p. 37
personal data
SURNAME Viatis, Bartholomew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nuremberg merchant and patrician
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1538
PLACE OF BIRTH Venice
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1624
Place of death Nuremberg