Etienne Maillet de Fourton

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Etienne Louis Maillet de Fourton († 1733 ) was a hydraulic engineer , chief engineer and entrepreneur .

Life

Maillet de Fourton was also able to operate the Parnassus fountain on Neustädter Markt with his private water art from the Clevertor ;
Drawing and engraving by Johann Anton de Klyher , 1727

family

Maillet de Fourton had a daughter named Caecilie Maillet de Fourton , who had married the electoral Hanoverian and later royal British court conductor Jean Baptiste Vezin . Their daughter Maria Anna Francisca Vezin married the fountain master and hydraulic engineer Jean Joseph La Croix in 1774 in the Catholic Church of St. Clemens in Calenberger Neustadt .

Career

Maillet de Fourton privately operated the water art at Clevertor in Hanover , which fed the baroque Parnassus Fountain on Neustädter Markt and various aristocratic gardens on Herrenhäuser Allee and, from 1706 to 1731, the two elevated tanks in Herrenhausen , the Marinus Cadart on the Sandberg north of the Page house had laid out for the purpose of operating the water features in the Great Garden .

Before that, from 1690 Johann Friedrich de Münter and from 1696 also Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz had developed plans for a bucket wheel on a leash , also to power the water features in Herrenhausen. Even otherwise had Leibniz knowledge of Maillet de Fourton: In a - in French - written letter from Giuseppe Guidi from about mid-July 1704 Leibniz, now part of UNESCO - world cultural heritage , Guido informed the polymath over a letter from the lieutenant general Buleau to "[ ...] SAE l'Ingeneur Maillet ”and to Lieutenant General Sommerfeldt ; both addressees were in Herrenhausen at the time.

literature

  • Wilhelm Rothert : General Hannoversche Biography (in Gothic script ), Vol. 3: Hanover under the Kurhut 1646-1815 ; Hanover: Sponholtz, 1916, p. 506
  • Bernd Adam: The mansions water arts. In: Marieanne von König (Ed.): Herrenhausen. The Royal Gardens in Hanover , Göttingen: Wallstein-Verlag, circa 2006, ISBN 978-3-8353-0053-8 and ISBN 3-8353-0053-9 , pp. 43–58

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Kempe (director), Malte-Ludolf Balbin , Gerd van den Heuvel , Regina Stuber (arrangement): Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. All writings and letters , ed. from the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Series 1: General political and historical correspondence , ed. from the Leibniz Research Center Hanover of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen at the Leibniz Archive of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library Hanover, 23rd volume, January - September 1704 , Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-05-005982-2 and ISBN 3-05-005982-6 , p. 814; online through google books
  2. ↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
  3. ↑ a b c Helmut Knocke : Water art. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 656; online through google books
  4. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Family history around Herrenhausen's fountains. In: Hanover portraits. Life pictures from seven centuries , Hanover: Harenberg, 1983, p. 50ff.
  5. ↑ Michael Kempe (director), Malte-Ludolf Balbin, Gerd van den Heuvel, Regina Stuber (arrangement): Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. All writings and letters : Giuseppe Guidi to Leibniz ... , p. 542ff .; online through google books
personal data
SURNAME Maillet de Fourton, Etienne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maillet de Fourton, Etienne Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hydraulic engineer in Hanover-Herrenhausen, chief engineer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century
DATE OF DEATH 1733