Carl Götting
Carl Julius Berthold Götting (born October 27, 1828 in Braunschweig , † December 8, 1899 in Hamburg ), also Carlos Götting , was a German businessman, world traveler and collector.
Life
After an apprenticeship in saddlery and upholstery in Braunschweig, Götting passed the journeyman's examination and went hiking in Germany from 1846 to 1850. Presumably inspired by the publications of the travel writer Friedrich Gerstäcker , Götting emigrated to America in 1850. Little is known about the first few years abroad. For many years he worked in Carlos Seckel's largest furniture store in Valparaiso.
The South American businessman Carlos Götting
In Gerstäcker's footsteps, he traveled the Cordilleras in 1856 before taking up residence in Santiago de Chile in 1858 . There he successfully ran a shop for imported furniture and decorative fabrics. He kept his first name changed to Carlos throughout his life. Götting visited his hometown for the first time in 1873 and undertook extensive trips through Europe and the Middle East in the following three years. In 1876 he toured the United States, the following year Japan and the Chinese cities of Shanghai, Canton, Hong Kong and Macao. Further trips took him to the Philippines, Singapore and India, before returning to Santiago in 1878.
Return to Europe
In 1883 Götting finally went back to Europe and settled in Hamburg. He obtained the Braunschweig citizenship he applied for in 1892. In the year he died in 1899, Götting left his extensive ethnographic collection, which also includes 2,530 travel photographs, to the city of Braunschweig . With a donation of 50,000 marks, Götting enabled the construction of the new building for the Braunschweig Municipal Museum, which was completed in 1906 .
The ethnographic collection in Braunschweig
On his travels, Götting collected more than 1,500 ethnographic objects. The collection now owned by the Städtisches Museum Braunschweig includes Peruvian and Mexican grave goods, art objects from various South American Indian peoples, Asian handicrafts and African musical instruments.
From October 8, 2006 to January 14, 2007, the Braunschweig Municipal Museum presented an exhibition of 250 objects from the Götting Collection.
The Göttingstrasse in Braunschweig is named after Carlos Götting.
literature
- Franz-Josef Christiani: Look into the distant world. Photo collection of the Brunswick citizen Carl Götting from the time between 1870 and 1885. Städtisches Museum Braunschweig, Braunschweig 1994, ISBN 3-927288-14-4 .
- Norman-Mathias Pingel: Götting, Carl. in: Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (Hrsg.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Supplementary volume. Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1996, ISBN 3-926701-30-7 , p. 54 .
- Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 218 .
- Jürgen Hodemacher: Braunschweig's streets - their names and their stories. Volume 2: Between Okergraben and the city ring. S. 114–115, Meyer, Braunschweig 2001, ISBN 3-926701-48-X .
Web links
- Literature by and about Carl Götting in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Around the world in 64 days - Carlos Götting's ethnographic collection at braunschweig.de, accessed on October 1, 2013.
- ↑ Evelin Haase: Around the world in 64 days. The ethnographic collection of Carlos Götting. Olms, Hildesheim / New York 2006, ISBN 3-487-13242-7 . (Exhibition catalog)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gotting, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Götting, Carl Julius Berthold (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German merchant, world traveler and collector |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 27, 1828 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunschweig , Duchy of Braunschweig |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 8, 1899 |
| Place of death | Hamburg , German Empire |