Charles Houel (gunsmith)

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Charles Houel (* in the 17th century in Normandy , France ; † 1714 in Lübeck ) was a French gunsmith .

Life

Charles Houel came from a Huguenot and armorer family from Cressy in Normandy . He was the son of the French gunsmith Abraham Houel I (around 1631–1711) and the younger brother of the court master armorer Abraham Houel II.

The French gunsmith, who worked in Lübeck in 1703 , was - similar to his brother in faith, the court watchmaker Mathurin Brachet , who came from Poitou  - in Celle as "Maître Charles Houel" in the list of servants' salaries for the court around the Celle castle .

Houel can be traced back to Celle in 1706: In that year he married Marie Migault (1678–1723 in Lübeck), daughter of the schoolmaster and teacher Jean Migault (1644 ), the Poitou maid of the Marquise de la Roche-Giffard in the French Reformed Church -1707). Houel went to Lübeck with her.

In Lübeck, Charles Houel was a member of the French Reformed community there . From 1707 to 1710 he was her deacon .

Charles Houel died in Lübeck in 1714.

Famous works

  • In 2010 two of Houel's “filigree pistols” were shown in the special exhibition “Hunting in the Lüneburg Heath” at the Bomann Museum .

literature

  • Wilhelm Beuleke : The Huguenots in Lower Saxony (= sources and representations on the history of Lower Saxony , vol. 58), Hildesheim: Verlag August Lax, 1960, p. 123

Archival material

Archives by and about Charles Houel can be found, for example

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Wolfgang Glage: Gunsmith and Rustmeister in Hanover - names and dates , in which: The gunsmithing art in Hanover , accompanying document to the exhibition in the Historical Museum on Hohen Ufer from December 10, 1978 to January 21, 1979 in Hanover, Langenhagen: Hartwig Popp KG, pp. 25-28; here: p. 27
  2. ↑ a b Andreas Flick: “The Celler Hof is completely lost” - “You don't see any more Germans there” , article on the Cellesche Zeitung page of June 13, 2010, last accessed on August 6, 2019
  3. ^ Andreas Flick: From France to Celle. The flight of the Huguenot family Migault , in: Evangelisch-Reformierte Kirchengemeinde Celle , Gemeindeblatt, Volume 27, Number 2/2013, pp. 7–13; as a PDF document from reformiert-celle.de
  4. ^ Wilhelm Deiss (Hrsg.): History of the Evangelical Reformed Congregation in Lübeck: To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the congregation on August 26, 1866 , Lübeck: Ferdinand Grautoff, 1866, p. 273; Digitized via Google books
  5. ↑ a b Matthew Glozier: War, religion and service. Huguenot soldiering, 1685 - 1713 (in English), Aldershot [u. a.]: Ashgate, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7546-5444-5 ; Preview over google books
personal data
SURNAME Houel, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French gunsmith
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century
DATE OF DEATH 1714
Place of death Lübeck