Friedrich Ludwig Christian Cropp

Friedrich Ludwig Christian Cropp (born August 20, 1718 in Ricklingen Castle ; † March 21, 1796 in Hamburg ) was a German doctor, book and art collector .

Friedrich Ludwig Christian Cropp on an engraving from 1793

Life

Friedrich Ludwig Christian Cropp came from Ricklingen Palace near Hanover . He studied medicine in Göttingen , received his doctorate on July 22, 1740 and went to Hamburg in the same year, where he worked as a doctor until the end of his life. In 1754 he became Subphysikus and Joachim Friedrich Bolten Physikus . In 1756 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Friedrich Cropp owned an art gallery with a very extensive library of over 24,000 volumes, including a. Encyclopedias for numismatics and medicine, manuscripts from the 16th and 17th centuries. His collection also included paintings, hand drawings and around 50,000 copper engravings as well as art and natural objects. After his death, the entire art gallery was auctioned off. At an auction that took place on May 2, 1798, Friedrich Röding acquired numerous artifacts for his museum for objects of nature and art .

He was married twice: first to Hanna Maria Bremer (1742) and then to Catharina Margaretha Schrötteringk (1752).

literature

Marianne Strutz-Ködel (Ed.): German Gender Book , Volume 142, (11th Hamburg Volume), Verlag CA Starke, Limburg an der Lahn 1966, p. 121.
Subphysician Fried. Ludw. Christian. Cropp, Dr. med., 1754-96 , in: Hermann Gustav Gernet: Mittheilungen from the older medicinal history of Hamburg . Cultural-historical sketch on documentary and historical ground, Mauke & Söhne, Hamburg 1869, pp. 323–325, digitized .
Directory of the owners of the most excellent collections of paintings and engravings in Hamburg in recent times. In: Hamburgisches Künstlerlexikon. Volume 1: The fine arts. Pontt & von Döhren, Hamburg 1854, p. 306, digitized .
0681. Cropp (Friedrich Ludwig Christian) , in: Hans Schröder : Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present. Volume 1, Perthes-Besser and Mauke, Hamburg 1851, (online , SUB Hamburg).
Doctor Cropp , in: Georg Ludwig Eckhardt: Hamburgische Künstliche Nachrichten. Supplements to Füessli's artist lexicon. LF Gauss, Hamburg 1794, p. 120, (online , GDZ ).
Heinrich Sander : Description of his travels through France, the Netherlands, Holland, Germany and Italy. Volume 2. Leipzig 1784, p. 219, ( online , DTA ), here notation “Gropp”.
110. Friedrich Ludwig Christian Cropp in: Johann Otto Thieß : Attempt a scholarly history of Hamburg: After alphabetical with critical and pragmatic remarks. Volume 1, Heroldsche Buchhandlung, Hamburg 1783, No. 110, p. 109, digitized .
Ernst Christoph Schultz : Description of a special world eye, which is located in the cabinet of a nature lover in Hamburg. Hamburg undated, digitized .

Portraits

Portrait, copper engraving, 13 × 10.6 cm, (without year), (online)
Johann Christian Gottfried Fritzsch , portrait, copper engraving, 34 × 24.4 cm, 1793, after Georg Ludwig Eckhardt, (online)
Coat of arms, etching, 55 × 45, ( online Herzog August Bibliothek )

Individual evidence

↑ Sabine Mildner-Mazzei: From medical student to doctor: the Göttingen medical doctorates in the 18th century. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1993, ISBN 3-525-35877-6 , p. 94, (online)
↑ ^a ^b Gerhard Wagenitz (Ed.): Göttingen Biologen 1737–1945: A biographical-bibliographical list. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1988, ISBN 3-525-35876-8 , p. 43, (online)
^ Member entry of Friedrich Ludwig Cropp at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on December 1, 2015.
↑ Hamburg bibliophiles, bibliographical and literary historians: VIII. Friedrich Ludwig Christian Cropp. In: Serapeum . Volume 16 (1855), p. 317 ff. (Online)
↑ 1213. Gernet (Hermann Gustav), in: Hans Schröder: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present. Volume 2, Perthes-Besser and Mauke, Hamburg 1854, ( online ( memento of the original from April 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ) @1@ 2

↑ ^a ^b Hamburg State and University Library

↑ Otto Beneke, (Ed. Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences), after Georg Ludwig Eckhardt: General German Biography. Volume 5 (1877), pp. 617-618, ( online )

personal data
SURNAME	Cropp, Friedrich Ludwig Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German doctor, book and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH	August 20, 1718
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ricklingen Castle
DATE OF DEATH	March 21, 1796
Place of death	Hamburg

[1] Sabine Mildner-Mazzei: From medical student to doctor: the Göttingen medical doctorates in the 18th century. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1993, ISBN 3-525-35877-6 , p. 94, (online)

[Biologe-2] Gerhard Wagenitz (Ed.): Göttingen Biologen 1737–1945: A biographical-bibliographical list. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1988, ISBN 3-525-35876-8 , p. 43, (online)

[3] Member entry of Friedrich Ludwig Cropp at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on December 1, 2015.

[4] Hamburg bibliophiles, bibliographical and literary historians: VIII. Friedrich Ludwig Christian Cropp. In: Serapeum . Volume 16 (1855), p. 317 ff. (Online)

[5] 1213. Gernet (Hermann Gustav), in: Hans Schröder: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present. Volume 2, Perthes-Besser and Mauke, Hamburg 1854, ( online ( memento of the original from April 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ) @1@ 2

[Staats-6] Hamburg State and University Library

[7] Otto Beneke, (Ed. Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences), after Georg Ludwig Eckhardt: General German Biography. Volume 5 (1877), pp. 617-618, ( online )