Daniel Behagel

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Daniel Behagel (born November 18, 1625 in Hanau ; † April 15, 1698 ) was a German merchant and manufacturer of artisan faience . Another spelling of the family name is Behaghel .

Hanauer Faience

Life

Daniel Behagel was born in Hanau as the son of Abraham Behagel (1589- <1631) and Ida Courhase (1594–1662). His father came from Frankenthal to Frankfurt am Main , later the family moved to Hanau. His grandfather Jacques Behagel was a Huguenot religious refugee who emigrated to Frankenthal in 1562 from West Flanders (from the "neighborhood" of Lille ).

Manufactory building on the corner of Römerstrasse / Neustädter Markt

Together with his brother-in-law Jacobus van de Walle (1631-ca. 1694), he founded Germany's first faience manufacture in Hanau in 1661 . In 1662 they opened a second manufacturing facility in Heusenstamm , which had to be closed there in 1666 and relocated to Frankfurt am Main, where they could continue their production until 1772. The Hanau manufactory existed until 1806. Until 1679 the company management was subordinate to the founders Behagel and van de Walle, then Johannes Bally until 1688 and his widow Anna Bally until 1693 . From 1694 until 1726 the company was run by the heirs of Behagel and van de Walle.

In 1682, Behagel and van de Walle and other business people from the Frankfurt area were among the first to buy larger lands in Pennsylvania . They followed the advertisements of the Quaker William Penn , who specifically traveled to Germany in 1671 and 1677 and promoted the settlement of the territory with religious tolerance and political liberalism . Behagel was one of the 8 founding members of the so-called "Frankfurter Landkompanie" who were among the first to settle Germantown in today's Philadelphia County . It is still unclear whether Daniel Behagel actually moved to Pennsylvania or just bought land here. The exact circumstances of his death or place of death are also missing, there is only a source about the exact date of his death.

family

Married on May 20, 1654 in Mülheim an der Ruhr to Magdalena van Maastricht. Only Abraham and Johann Isaac Behagel are known of the children from the marriage. His brother-in-law Jacobus van de Walle married his stepsister Johanna Simons (1636-1715) on April 26, 1655 in Hanau . His grandfather Jacques Behagel married on May 8, 1569 in Frankenthal Tanneke (Anneke) de Carmer (Carmers) from Oudenaarde .

literature

  • Hugo Birkner : Hanauer faience . In: Hanau city and country. A home book for school and home. Hanau, 1954, pp. 397-400.
  • Reinhard Dietrich : Production waste from the Hanauer Fayence Manufactory - an excavation . In: Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 30, 1988, pp. 335–346.
  • Ludwig von Döry: Faience of the Historical Museum Frankfurt am Main . Frankfurt am Main, 1958.
  • Fried Lübbecke: Hanau. City and county . Cologne, 1951, p. 238ff.
  • Ernst Zeh: Hanauer Faience. A contribution to the history of German ceramics . Marburg, 1913.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Henry S. Dotterer: The Perkiomen Religion, Past and Present . Perkiomen Pupl. Comp., Philadelphia, Vol. 2, 1900, pp. 10-11.
  2. Ulrike Gleixner & Erika Hebeisen (eds.): Gendering Tradition. Culture of Remembrance and Gender in Pietism . Didymos-Verlag, Affalterbach, Vol. 1, 2007, pp. 10-11.
  3. Franz Daniel Pastorius: Umständige geographical description of the last of all invented Provintz Pensilvaniae . Andreas Otto, Frankfurt & Leipzig, 1700, p. 35.
  4. ^ The Pennsylvania Magazine . Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Vol. 4, 1880, p. 5.
  5. ^ Andreas Deppermann: Johann Jacob Schütz and the beginnings of Pietism . Mohr Siebeck, Vol. 119, 2002, p. 151.
  6. ^ Edgar J. Hürkey (ed.): Art, Commerce, Faith Struggle: Frankenthal around 1600 . Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms, 1995, p. 87.