Biernatzki (family)

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Biernatzki is the name of a Polish family.

history

Before the second half of the 19th century there were numerous spellings of the family name, including Birnacki , Biernacki , Bernatzky , Biernatzky . Then the form "Biernatzki" established itself. The progenitor of the German line was Johann von Birnacki (* 1691), who was a Polish nobleman. It may have come from the Kalisz region . His property is said to have been confiscated. The branch of the family in the north German duchies can be traced back to a son of the same name born around 1719. The Polish vassal book names him in 1732. In the winter semester of 1738 he matriculated at the University of Königsberg and converted to Protestantism according to the entry there. Then he moved via Breslau to Hanover and Altona , where he had a private school. Johann Birnacki was probably married to Johanna Rohden (1721–1773), with whom he had two sons and three daughters. Both in the register of the University of Königsberg and in Altona, he no longer gave the title of nobility. The couple's children were born between 1752 and 1765. Johann Birnacki died before 1773. The orphaned children went to an orphanage in Altona in 1773.

Johann Birnacki's eldest son was called Johann (* 1753) and acquired Altona citizenship. In 1779 he married Maria Dorothea Lührs, with whom he had sons Niclas and Hein. As with his sisters, only life data are documented, sometimes incompletely. The reason that this branch of the family did not have a sustainable effect may be the early death of the parents, which did not enable the children to outgrow the precarious circumstances.

All lexically relevant persons go back to Johann Birnacki's son Christopher (1765–1842). He learned from a surgeon and from 1783 worked as an assistant to a brother-in-law of his teacher in Copenhagen . Supporters financed him a medical degree, which he completed with a doctorate in medicine. med. completed. He then worked for three years for the Moravian Church and in Gnadenfrei . He then worked as a military doctor and moved with his regiment to Glückstadt and in 1794 to Altona . His first marriage was Margarethe Gruner, née Nagel († 1801), who was a stepdaughter of a postmaster from Elmshorn. From this marriage a branch of the family emerged that had notable members in the 20th century. In 1802 Biernatzki married Maria Rosenbrock (1776-1854) for the second time. The father of this woman from Altona worked as a bleacher and had a wealthy uncle. He gave the family a house and later bequeathed another one. The family became wealthy to some extent. Great-grandchildren from this marriage lived until the 20th century.

Christoph Biernatzki had two children in his first marriage. The daughter Auguste (1793–1862) did not marry and ran a private girls' school in Altona. The son Johann Christoph Biernatzki worked as a pastor and teacher. He married Henriette de Vries (1798–1823), who came from Flensburg , whose father worked as a captain and with whom he had six daughters and two sons. The second son Julius (1837-1918) worked in Altona as a carpenter and architect. He married twice. The son Julius and two daughters were the result of a first marriage. The second marriage was childless. Julius Biernatzki trained as a carpenter and worked as such until 1912. He then bought a cement factory in Meiendorf . Descendants of his sons Karl-Heinz (* 1909) and Julius-Paul (* 1912) still live in Schleswig-Holstein today.

From Christoph Biernatzki's second marriage a branch emerged that no longer exists today. In addition to the three daughters, this included the lawyer Hermann Biernatzki and Karl Leonhard Biernatzki . Karl Leonhard had five daughters and four sons, including Johannes Biernatzki and Wilhelm Biernatzki . The daughters did not receive any higher education. It was therefore not possible for them to accept a profession that was appropriate to their class. Those who did not receive any significant dowry, they could not secure themselves socially through a suitable marriage. The eldest daughter Maria lived from 1846 to 1900, worked as a housekeeper and died unmarried. The daughter Herminie (1848-1924) worked as a tutor, travel companion and ran a boarding school. She did not get married either. The daughter Fernanda (* 1859) became deaf at an early age and died unmarried. Just like the daughter Sophie (* 1862). The daughter Johanna († 1851) worked as a deaconess and later a community nurse. She then looked after her two younger sisters and did not marry either.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hartwig Molzow: Biernatzki family . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 10. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1994, p. 29.
  2. ↑ Hartwig Molzow: Biernatzki family . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 10. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1994, p. 29.
  3. ↑ Hartwig Molzow: Biernatzki family . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 10. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1994, pp. 29-30.
  4. ↑ Hartwig Molzow: Biernatzki family . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 10. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1994, p. 30.
  5. ↑ Hartwig Molzow: Biernatzki family . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 10. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1994, pp. 30-31.