Charles Petit (businessman)

Charles Petit (around 1870)

Charles Matheus Philip Petit (born August 12, 1810 in Copenhagen , † June 7, 1885 in Teplitz ) was a Lübeck businessman and politician.

Life

origin

Charles Petit was a son of the Copenhagen accountant Charles Matheus Philip Petit (1776–1823), who worked for the Brandassurance-Compagni (Kongelige Brand) , and his wife Sophie Catharine nee. Fiedler (1788-1881). The two portraits of his parents created by the painter Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg in 1816 and 1819 were sold in the Copenhagen art market in 2016.

Charles Petit Sr.
Sophie Catharine Petit

His older brother Friedrich Carl gen. Fritz (1809-1854) was in his youth with the later translator and poet Hans Christian Andersen friends.

His eldest sister Rosalie (1807–1873) became a graphic artist and in 1831 married the Danish painter Christian Holm . Sophie Charlotte (1812–1841), another sister, married the lawyer and later Senator from Lübeck Theodor Curtius .

career

Charles Petit learned the trade, became a citizen of Lübeck around 1839/40 and started his own business as a businessman in 1849. His house was on Alfstrasse , MQ 41 . He was elected as a member of the Lübeck citizenship in 1849 and represented the interests of the Kingdom of Denmark as consul in Lübeck from 1851 to 1882. In 1852 Hans Christian Andersen visited him in Lübeck.

The future Senator Johannes Fehling , who was elected to the citizenry in 1876 and to the Lübeck Senate as early as 1878 , entered Petit's action as a partner in 1861. The company's new head office was built in 1876 at Lübeck harbor on the corner of An der Untertrave 3 and Kleine Altefähre in what is now known as the old town . Below you can see the three owners on a postcard probably issued on the occasion of the company's 50th anniversary.

Petit house
Company owner
Detail at the main entrance
Detail at the side entrance

Charles Petit & Co. , founded by Charles Petit in 1849, was deleted from the commercial register at the Lübeck local court in 2007.

family

Charles Petit married Sophie geb. Buchholz († 1862 in Menton ).

His daughter Anna Sophie Petit (1842–1892) married the Hamburg merchant Heinrich Hudtwalcker . In 1865 he married Augusta Mathilde Meyer (born June 27, 1827 in Naudin ; † September 10, 1915 in Dresden ) from Hamburg, the sister of his son's mother-in-law.

In 1870 his son Charles Hornung Petit also joined Charles Petit & Son as a partner and gradually took over the Danish consulate in Lübeck from his father.

The Petitsche family grave is located in the cemetery of the St. Jürgen chapel in Lübeck .

Petitsches family grave
Grave slab

Awards

Dannebrogorden , knight
Dannebrogsmann

literature

Petit, Charles H. in: Kraks Blå Bog . 1910, p. 346 ( runeberg.org at the entry of the son).

Web links

Commons : Charles Petit - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Entry ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on private Danish genealogy site@1@ 2

^ Catalog Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers of Fine Art: No. 865/9: CW Eckersberg: Portrait of Charles Petit and Catherine Sophie Fiedler. 1816 and 1819. Unsigned. Oil on canvas. 52 × 60 cm each.

↑ Holm, Rosalie In: Weilbach's artist dictionary . ( Kulturarv.dk ).

↑ Admission to civil rights in the archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck : 01.1-03.20 - ASA Externa, USA.

^ House number from 1884: [?], Destroyed in the air raid on Lübeck on March 29, 1942

^ Sven Hakon Rossel: Hans Christian Andersen: Danish Writer and Citizen of the World. Rodopi, 1996, p. 117 ( books.google.de ).

↑ Commercial register

↑ Lorenz Meyer, Oscar L. Tesdorpf: Hamburgische Wappen und Genealogien. Self-published, Hamburg 1890, p. 252.

↑ both after the entry on the son in HF Grandjean, Johannes Madsen, CV Nyholm: De kgl. Danske ridderordener: personalhistorisk festskrift: udgivet i anledning af hans majestæt kong Christian den niendes 40-haired regeringsjubilæum. A. Christiansen, Copenhagen 1903, p. 553 ( books.google.com )

personal data
SURNAME	Petit, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Petit, Charles Matheus Philip (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Lübeck businessman and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	August 12, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH	Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH	June 7, 1885
Place of death	Teplitz

[1] Entry ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on private Danish genealogy site@1@ 2

[2] Catalog Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers of Fine Art: No. 865/9: CW Eckersberg: Portrait of Charles Petit and Catherine Sophie Fiedler. 1816 and 1819. Unsigned. Oil on canvas. 52 × 60 cm each.

[3] Holm, Rosalie In: Weilbach's artist dictionary . ( Kulturarv.dk ).

[4] Admission to civil rights in the archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck : 01.1-03.20 - ASA Externa, USA.

[5] House number from 1884: [?], Destroyed in the air raid on Lübeck on March 29, 1942

[6] Sven Hakon Rossel: Hans Christian Andersen: Danish Writer and Citizen of the World. Rodopi, 1996, p. 117 ( books.google.de ).

[7] Commercial register

[8] Lorenz Meyer, Oscar L. Tesdorpf: Hamburgische Wappen und Genealogien. Self-published, Hamburg 1890, p. 252.

[9] th after the entry on the son in HF Grandjean, Johannes Madsen, CV Nyholm: De kgl. Danske ridderordener: personalhistorisk festskrift: udgivet i anledning af hans majestæt kong Christian den niendes 40-haired regeringsjubilæum. A. Christiansen, Copenhagen 1903, p. 553 ( books.google.com )