Georg Handel (father)
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Georg Handel (born September 24, 1622 in Halle adSaale, Archdiocese of Magdeburg ; † February 11, 1697 in Halle, Duchy of Magdeburg ) was an important court surgeon and servant of the Wettin Duke Johann Adolf I in the Duchy of Saxony-Weißenfels , as well as a barber and surgeon in the royal seat of Halle. Today he is known worldwide as the father of the German-British baroque composer Georg Friedrich Händel .
There is also a Gutedel with the name Georg Handel , which has been on the market since 2001. It is obtained from the wine yields of the vineyard on the Mansfeld Lakes wine route , which is located in the area where Georg Handel himself, as a hobby winemaker, cultivated a vineyard until 1649 and regularly sold it in the wine cellar of his house, Zum yellow Hirschen .
Life
Georg grew up in Halle as the son of the native Wroclaw and council blacksmith Valentin Händel (1582–1636) and Anna Beichling, who was married in Eisleben in 1608 , but lost his father with a plague epidemic at the age of 14, which meant he left high school and gave up of his law degree meant. His mother then guaranteed him training as a surgeon.
On June 30, 1666, Georg Handel bought the Haus zum Gelben Hirschen with wine bar privilege for 1310 guilders , in which 19 years later his son Georg Friedrich was to be born. In 1682 Halle was attacked again by a great plague epidemic, with which half of Halle's city population died. Georg, who as a surgeon was able to save many of the city's population, lost his wife Anna, née. Kathe, with whom he had a harmonious marriage.
As a Giebichensteiner official and personal surgeon, he later met his second daughter Dorothea Taust (born February 10, 1651 in Dieskau ; † December 27, 1730 in Halle) through Pastor Georg Taust (1606–1685) ( St. Bartholomew Church Giebichenstein ) and was married a second time through him in St. Bartholomew on April 23, 1683. A year later a stillbirth followed (* and † 1684) and on February 23, 1685 the birth of his son Georg Friedrich . Father Georg Handel was reluctant to support the early talent of music, as he wanted to enable him to have a more secure and prosperous life by studying law at the University of Halle , which he was never allowed to enjoy himself. At the pressure of his ducal employer at Schloss Neu-Augustusburg Weißenfels , he had no choice but to finance the best possible basic musical education for his son from Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow . To this day, scientists are still discussing how the father-son relationship can be historically assessed, as Georg was always traveling as a court surgeon and died 12 years after the birth of his musical son.
Two more children emerged from her marriage to Dorothea Handel: Dorothea Sophia Handel († June 24, 1711) on October 6, 1687; from 1708 she was married to the lawyer and war counselor Johann Dietrich Michaelis , and Johanna Christiana Handel († 16 July 1709) January 10, 1690.
Johanna Christiana Handel rests together with her parents in Schwibbogen 60 of the Stadtgottesackers (Camposanto) , which Georg Handel built in 1674 before the death of his first wife Anna Handel, née. Kathe had had it set up as a family grave. He followed her there in 1697, followed by his youngest daughter Johanna Christiana Handel in 1709. The mother of all these children (including George Frideric Handel), Dorothea Handel, b. Taust was buried there in 1731. Georg Handel's great-grandson, Philipp Leberecht Pfersdorf, followed him there as the last family member on April 27, 1732.
Handel's son, George Frideric Handel, as the most famous composer in Europe, ordered his burial in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey by will , and was buried there with a large mourning ceremony in 1759.
Georg Handel's vineyard
In 1993, genealogist Bernd Hofestädt discovered an area about 15 km from Halle in the Pohlingen corridor near Müllerdorf (foothills of the north-eastern end of the Salty Lake, which extends past Langenbogen to Köllme) directly on the Mansfeld Lakes wine route , on which Georg Händel to 1649 cultivated his own vineyard somewhere. The area covers 9,908 square meters and is part of a sensitive nature reserve. Since 1999, with the consent of the Upper Nature Conservation Authority, 400 square meters of the vineyard at the Halle regional council have been cultivated by the Sommerfeld family and served as Gutedel annually since 2001 at the Halle Handel Festival to the participating artists and patrons of the festival. In addition, every year some bottles of the wine are archived in the Bremen Ratskeller and, from 2009, also in the former wine cellar of the Handel family in the Handel House , which was buried for a long time.
literature
- Bernd Hofestädt: Georg Handel's vineyard near Müllerdorf. Traces of the Handel family in Mansfeld. In: Viticulture in the Mansfelder Land. Halle / Saale 2001. (= Neue Mansfelder Heimatblätter. Volume 10, No. 9.), pp. 78–83, with illustration
- Bernd Hofestädt: The Handel and Halle family. For the city anniversary of 1200 years of Halle. Ekkehard, New Episode 13, 2006, special issue
- Edwin Werner: The Handel House in Halle. Guide to the Handel exhibition and history of the Handel House. Halle (Saale) 2007
- Anja A. Tietz: The city gods field in Halle (Saale) . Fly head, Halle 2004, ISBN 3-930195-66-6
- Hofestädt, Handel House Communications 1998 "2/17
- Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes. Self-published, Boppard / Rhein, 1980, vol. 10, p. 231, R 9345
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Handel, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German court surgeon and servant of the Wettin Duke Johann Adolf I in the Duchy of Saxony-Weißenfels |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 24, 1622 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Halle (Saale) , Duchy of Magdeburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 11, 1697 |
| Place of death | Halle (Saale) , Duchy of Magdeburg |