Benoni Friedländer

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Benoni Friedländer (1852)

Benoni Friedländer (born June 4, 1773 in Berlin , † February 17, 1858 in Berlin), also Johann Gottlieb Julius Benoni Friedländer , was a German private scholar and coin collector.

Life

Friedländer grew up in a wealthy Jewish family as the son of David Friedländer and his wife Margarete (Blümchen) Itzig, daughter of the court factor and banker Daniel Itzig .

Friedländer is professionally active at an early age. Probably around 1818 he retired from business life and devoted himself exclusively to the family and his important coin and autograph collection. In the same year his children are baptized Protestants. Out of respect for his father's faith and despite his own conviction that he will become a Christian, he waits until after the death of his parents. But barely two months after his father's death on December 25, 1834, Benoni and his wife Rebecca were baptized on February 23, 1835. Since then he has been called Johann Gottlieb Julius Benoni Friedländer .

In 1861 he bequeathed his collection to the newly founded Berlin Münzkabinett , whose director had been his youngest son Julius Friedländer since 1868 . The collection consisted of 6,000 ancient, 11,000 medieval and modern coins and medals. It also includes emergency, field and siege coins, "above all the incomparable number of the most beautiful Italian medals from the heyday of the Renaissance, which Napoleon's sister, Princess Elisa Bonaparte Bacciocchi, once collected as Princess of Lucca." Specimens [...] and it shows what expertise and zeal can achieve even with limited means in the course of a long life, which of course falls in an epoch in which antiquities and works of art were devalued by the great political upheavals and are more easily separated from theirs Owners sold ”, wrote Julius Friedländer in 1873.
This donation is the largest acquisition in the history of the cabinet, which thus represents the largest collection of Italian coins on this side of the Alps.

Friedländer also owns an exquisite collection of autographs , such as the Ode to Prussia, a collection of letters from Kant to Moses Mendelssohn and the so-called Fischhof manuscript, a Beethoven biography. His son Julius inherits this collection, and in 1876 it passes to Carl Robert Lessing .

Benoni and Rebekka Friedländer (April 1856)

family

Benoni Friedländer was married to Rebecca von Halle (* 1775, Berlin; † 1857, ibid), daughter of the banker Joel Samuel von Halle (* 1747, Hamburg; † October 13, 1810, Berlin) and the noble (Adelaide) Levy (1755 -1831). Her sister Fanny Eleonore (* 1778, Berlin; † 1857, ibid) was married to Anton Heinrich Bendemann (formerly Aaron Hirsch Bendix; 1775–1866), whose son is the painter Eduard Bendemann .

Children:

  • Auguste Marie Erika Amalia (1796–1880), married. with Eduard Philippi (brother of Johann Friedrich Hector Philippi )
  • Marianne (1797–1826), married. with the music publisher Samuel Ferdinand Mendheim (1786–1860)
  • Cilla Friedländer (1798-1880)
  • Joachim Daniel (1800–1868), married. with Mathilde Oppermann
  • Emil Gottlieb (1805–1878), archivist at the Secret State Archives and librarian at the War Academy in Berlin, historian and philologist, married. with Elisabeth (Elise) Mendheim (1821–1904). Their son was Ernst Friedländer
  • Eduard Julius Theodor (1813-1884), unvarnished.

Benoni's brother Moses Friedlander (born August 27, 1774 Berlin, † February 24, 1840, ibid) was established in January 1799 a partner in the banking business of Joseph Mendelssohn , which henceforth bore the name Mendelssohn & Friedlander. At the end of 1803 he left again and worked as a freelance businessman. He later took on his previous dispatcher, Moses Moser, as a partner. The company was henceforth named Friedländer & Co. Moses Friedländer was married to Rebecca Salomon (1783-1850) from 1801-1805, who after the divorce became a well-known and controversial author under her author's name Regina Frohberg .

literature

  • Clemens Brenneis: The Fischhof manuscript. On the early history of Beethoven's biography . In: Harry Goldschmidt (ed.): On Beethoven, Part 1. Essays and Annotations , Berlin 1979, pp. 90–116.
  • Ernst Friedländer: The trading house Joachim Moses Friedländer et Soehne zu Königsberg i.Pr. , Hamburg 1913 [contains family tree since Joachim Moses Friedländer].
  • Julius Friedländer: Benoni Friedländer . In: Zeitschrift für Numismatik 24, 1904, pp. 1–16.
  • Jacob Jacobson (ed.): The Jewish Citizens' Books of the City of Berlin 1809–1851: with additions for the years 1791–1809 , Berlin 1962 (publications of the Historical Commission in Berlin; Vol. 4: Quellenwerke; Vol. 1).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Julius Menadier: The permanent collection of the Münzkabinett in the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum. A coin history of the European states , Berlin 1919, pp. 7–8.
  2. ^ Julius Friedländer / Alfred von Sallet: The Royal Coin Cabinet. History and overview of the collection together with an explanatory description of the selection displayed on display tables , Berlin 1873, p. 33.
  3. See also the information on the family in the article by Margarete Braun-Ronsdorf:  Bendemann, Eduard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 36 f. ( Digitized version ).