Ferdinand Robert-Tornow

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Ferdinand Alexander Robert-Tornow (born October 18, 1812 in Berlin ; † September 13, 1875 there ) was a German lawyer , politician and art collector .

family

Ferdinand Robert-Tornow came from a Jewish banking family. His paternal grandfather was the coin commissioner, jeweler and moneylender Levin Markus (also Loeb Cohen, 1723–1790), his paternal grandmother Chaie (d. 1809) was the daughter of Moses Tobias. His father was the Geheime Kommerzienrat Moritz (Meyer) Robert-Tornow (1785–1846; family name actually Levin; after 1790 the family had the name Robert, since 1811 the name Robert-Tornow), his mother Ernestine nee. Victor, daughter of the Poznan banker Victor Joseph. His uncle was the playwright Ludwig Robert , his aunt the writer Rahel Varnhagen von Ense , whose husband was Karl August Varnhagen von Ense . His nephew was the librarian and translator Walter Robert-Tornow .

Life

Ferdinand Robert-Tornow was baptized on October 18, 1812 in the Jerusalem Church in Berlin . Because of the family situation, the parents initially kept the baptism secret. He attended the Cauer'sche Erziehungsanstalt and the Werder'sche Gymnasium . In 1831 he began studying law at the University of Bonn . In 1832 he became a member of the Corps Borussia Bonn . After completing his studies, he completed his legal clerkship and became a court judge.

Ferdinand Robert-Tornow owned a manor in Ruhnow near Wangerin . In 1862/63 he was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives for the constituency of Stettin , where he belonged to the right wing under Wilhelm Grabow and the constitutional . On May 24, 1863, he resigned from his office. Later he ran as a member of the Reichstag of the North German Confederation in the constituency of Naugard-Regenwalde. However, he was defeated by Moritz von Blanckenburg .

During his legal clerkship, he made a trip to Vienna , Venice and Milan in 1834 , where he began his activity as a collector of art and handicrafts from the Renaissance and Rococo . After the death of his father in 1848, he said goodbye to the service after he had been denied a long travel vacation and devoted himself only to collecting art. With his villa at Johannisstrasse 11, which was converted into a private museum, he became a recognized art collector and promoter of the arts and crafts in Berlin. Over the years, his collection gained fame in European art centers. When Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm took over the patronage of the German museums after the establishment of the Empire , he also got in touch with Ferdinand Robert-Tornow to get to know his collection. He found in him "instead of a shy hermit the most entertaining man in society", so that further visits followed together with Crown Princess Victoria , from which a cordial relationship developed between him and the Crown Prince couple. 1874 Robert Tornow bequeathed to the Crown Princess by Legat his collection, the first in the Crown Prince's Palace and after 1894 in Castle Friedrichshof found their home. As a result of the amalgamation of the Robert-Tornow and Victoria collections, the Crown Princess developed into a professional art collector.

He was buried in the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof II in Berlin-Mitte; his tomb has been preserved. In addition to his art collection, he also bequeathed parts of his library to Crown Princess Victoria.

literature

  • GG Winkel : Biographical corps album of Borussia in Bonn 1821–1928 . Aschaffenburg 1928
  • Walter Robert-tornow: Ferdinand Robert-tornow, the collector and his own, a contribution to the history of Berlin . In: Deutsche Rundschau. Volume 65, 1890
  • Bernd Haunfelder : Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives 1849–1867 (= manuals on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5181-5 , p. 212.
  • Nikolaus Gatter:  Robert, Ernst Friedrich Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 679 f. ( Digitized version ). (Biography of an uncle, with information on genealogy)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jacob Jacobsen: Jewish weddings in Berlin 1759 to 1813. de Gruyter, Berlin 1968, p. 353 ( digitized version )
  2. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 19 , 69
  3. ^ Robert-Tornow, Ferdinand. In: Bernd Haunfelder : Biographical Handbook for the Prussian House of Representatives 1849–1867 (= Handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5181-5 , p. 212.
  4. ↑ Georg Hirth : Hirth's Parliament Almanach. Volume 1, Berlin 1867, p. 63
  5. ↑ The property was rebuilt around 1895 and converted into a polyclinic in 1930. List of monuments
  6. ^ Ingeborg Stolzenberg: Walter Robert-Tornow. A representative of literary Berlin at the end of the 19th century , para. 8
  7. ↑ Quote from GG Winkel
  8. ↑ Hildegard Reinhardt: Victoria von Preußen-Principessa Pittrice in Berlin , XIV. Art-historical interest
  9. ↑ picture on flickr
  10. ↑ Berndt Dugall, Bernhard Fabian: The manual of the historical book inventory in Germany. Hesse. A-L: 5, 1992
personal data
SURNAME Robert-Tornow, Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Robert-Tornow, Ferdinand Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, politician and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1875
Place of death Berlin