Ferdinand Cron

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Ferdinand Cron (* 1554 in Augsburg , † 1637 in Madrid ) was a spice and gemstone dealer in India.

Live and act

His father, the Augsburg Kistler (cabinet maker) Heinrich Kron († 1575) often worked for the Fugger and Innsbruck government. (In 1555 he came to the Small Council, in 1561 he became one of the mayor's offices and in 1575 taxed a fortune between 1,600 and 3,200  florins ⚭ 1.) Anna Flicker ⚭ 2.) Anna Heidbrecht) Ferdinand was the second son from his second marriage.

From 1576 Ferdinand was a clerk at the Welser trading house . In 1587 he and Christoph Schneeberger were sent to India for 6 years for the Georg Fuggerische Erben company . He stayed in India. Instead of travel expenses, he received the furniture of the house he lived in and the associated slaves.

In 1592 he married Maria Leytoa (* around 1569) in Goa . In the same year war broke out in Malacca between Spain-Portugal, Holland and England (until 1600), with which all Lisbon pepper deliveries were canceled and the pepper price in Europe reached unimagined highs. The factory in Goa operated by the German-Italian consortium was closed.

The Augsburg man went into business for himself. He managed to take on an important role in the business between India and the "Philippines" in Macao, with credits to the viceroys and information, which brought him a great fortune. He came to China and Japan. In 1598 he was able to warn the Viceroy of Portugal about the departing Dutch fleet through connections. In 1619 he was arrested on suspicion of espionage or went into hiding as a bankrupt. In 1624 he was expelled from India. He then lived in Lisbon and from 1627 in Madrid.

Daughters

Ferdinand Cron's daughter Maria as dead, painting in the Church of St. Monica, Old Goa.

Ferdinand Cron had 2 daughters with his wife. The younger, Maria Cron , became a nun in Goa and was venerated as a local blessed because of her stigmatization. Her picture is kept in the monastery church of St. Monica in Goa to this day. The elder, Isabel Cron, achieved dubious fame for secretly biting off a phalanx of the indestructible corpse of the famous Asian missionary Francisco de Xavier, exhibited on the occasion of the canonization in Goa in 1634, in order to possess a relic of him. The spectacular act caused a considerable stir among the population and was heavily condemned by the Church. Isabele then gave Cron her finger back and, as a penance, donated the saint a precious silver diadem, set with precious stones.

literature

• Pius Malekandathil: The Germans, the Portuguese and India . Transaction Pub, Münster 1999, ISBN 3825843505 , pp. 97 ff. ( Limited preview in the Google book search).
• Hermann Kellenbenz : From Melchior Manlich to Ferdinand Cron. German levantine and oriental trade relations . In: The Journal of European Economic History 19, 1990, pp. 611-622.
• Hermann Kellenbenz: Ferdinand Cron. In: Wolfgang Zorn (Hrsg.): Life pictures from Bavarian Swabia. Volume 9, Munich 1966, pp. 194–210 ( limited preview in Google book search).
• Charles Ralph Boxer : Uma raridade Bibliográfica sobre Fernão Cron . In: Boletim Internacional de Bibliografia Luso-Brasileira, XII (1971) No. 2 (April-June), pp. 5-46.

Web links

• Ferdinand Cron in the Augsburger Stadtlexikon

Individual evidence

1. ↑ David Abram, et al .: India, the South . 3. Edition. DuMont Reiseverlag, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-7701-6105-X , p. 247–248 ( limited preview in Google Book search).