Georg Gottfried Rudolph

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Georg Gottfried Rudolph (born August 5, 1778 in Unterweißbach , † April 26, 1840 in Weimar ) was a German servant and private secretary .

Life

Georg Gottfried Rudolph was born the son of a humpback pharmacist . He grew up with six other siblings in Unterweißbach and was privately tutored there by the local chaplain.

He began cameralistic training in the Heringen Rent Office near Sondershausen , but broke it off again after 16 months because it did not appeal to him, but still received a certificate from an official .

He went to Weimar and was lucky enough to get a job with Friedrich Schiller as a servant, whose private secretary he became after a while; he got his own living room in the house of the Schiller family. From this close relationship he developed into a confidante of Friedrich Schiller and he stayed with him until his death. In his job he did the usual servant activities, running errands, as well as making transcripts and copies.

After Friedrich Schiller's death, his widow gave him a certificate with which he was supposed to be trained as a bookseller in the Cotta'sche publishing house in Tübingen . Because he did not like the conditions there, he returned to Weimar after six months. There he rented a room that he could furnish with the furniture that Friedrich Schiller's widow gave him. It was his work table, three small tables, two chairs, a mirror, curtains, coffee tray and coffee dishes. Later he bought Friedrich Schiller's armchair in an estate campaign; Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna later received this, as well as an ordinary chair, table and mirror . She used it to furnish the "Schiller Room" in the Weimar City Palace . Dr. Weißenborn acquired the work table which he sold to the library in Munich . He left the profit to Georg Gottfried Rudolph's widow.

The wife of Friedrich Schiller and Caroline von Wolhaben provided Georg Gottfried Rudolph with a job as an assistant to the Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna's private treasury . In 1811 he was appointed clerk in the office , in 1828 as registrar and in early 1840 as court cashier. The Grand Duchess also took out life insurance for him and paid the contributions due from her box.

In April 1811 he married Helene, b. Boy, the daughter of a surgeon from the office of Gehren . They had three children together.

His only son studied medicine in Jena and was forced to a duel in which he killed his opponent. His son was able to flee to France and completed his habilitation as a doctor in Guémar . Georg Gottfried Rudolph visited his son in his new home and was able to obtain from the Greater Hesse government that the son's short stays in Weimar were tolerated.

Honors

He received the silver civil merit medal presented by Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Nekrolog der Deutschen ... BF Voigt, 1842 ( google.de [accessed on January 12, 2018]).
  2. servant Rudolph - Weimarpedia. Retrieved January 12, 2018 .
  3. ^ Peter-André Alt: Schiller: Life - Work - Time . CH Beck, 2000, ISBN 978-3-406-53128-6 ( google.de [accessed on January 12, 2018]).
  4. Schillerhaus: The servant's room - Weimarpedia. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 21, 2018 ; accessed on January 12, 2018 . Info: The archive link was 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@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.weimarpedia.de
  5. Dietrich Neuhaus: The son of the humpback pharmacist: Friedrich Schiller in the memories of his loyal servant, secretary and confidante Georg Gottfried Rudolph . Books on Demand, 2012, ISBN 978-3-8448-9509-4 ( google.de [accessed January 12, 2018]).