Carl Alexander Grunelius
Carl Alexander Grunelius (born July 7, 1834 in Frankfurt am Main ; † May 20, 1882 in Genoa ) was a German entrepreneur.
Life
The family name Grunelius comes from Friedberg in Hessen , where Johannes I. Grünling (~ 1543–1611) was a teacher at the Latin school and in 1577 changed his family name to Grunelius following the humanistic taste of the time.
Carl Alexander Grunelius came from a wealthy Frankfurt banking family and, after the annexation of the so-called Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine by the newly established German Empire in 1871, became the new owner and investor of an ironworks in Niederbronn-les-Bains in Alsace and, since 1876, owner of the Kolbsheim estate, including chateau de Kolbsheim, near Strasbourg.
The new lord of the castle was only able to enjoy his new property for six years, as he died at the age of only 48. His widow was Maria Koechlin (* 1841 in Mühlhausen † 1889 Zell am See ) and came from a wealthy family in the greater Basel area. The couple had four children: Caroline Wilhelmine Grunelius, born in 1862; Moritz Eduard von Grunelius , born in 1863, the heir (the family was given the Prussian title of nobility in 1900); Adele Marie Grunelius, born 1866 and Hélène Marie Grunelius, born 1870.
Web links
- Family data Carl Alexander Grunelius
- The righteous will green like a palm tree The Frankfurt family Grunelius (PDF; 3.6 MB)
- Julia Charlotte Mellinger, educator of the children of the Moritz Eduard von Grunelius family at Chateau de Kolbsheim
- Caroline Grunelius family (1862-1944)
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| SURNAME | Grunelius, Carl Alexander |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Grunelius, Karl Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 7, 1834 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 20, 1882 |
| Place of death | Genoa |