Georg Heinrich Hoffmann

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Georg Heinrich Hoffmann

Georg Heinrich Hoffmann (born May 24, 1797 in Lauterberg in the Harz Mountains ; † May 5, 1868 in Hanover ) was a German mathematician , fireworker , artilleryman and educator as well as draftsman , lithographer and hydraulic engineering inspector.

Life

Georg Heinrich Hoffmann was born at the time of the Electorate of Hanover as the son of the smelter of the copper works near Lauterberg, Johann Christian Hofmann. He first attended the local school, but was also taught by the Lauterberg pastor Joseph Schleiter before he presumably graduated from the local mountain school in Clausthal .

As a result, Hoffmann went to the artillery school in Hanover . When Napoleon took over again in 1815, Hanover took part in the war of liberation with the King's German Legion . Barely 18 years old, Hoffmann had to set out for Belgium as a gunner in a foot artillery unit under the leadership of Captain Wilhelm Braun. In his diary he described the walk and the battle of Waterloo on June 18, 1815. On June 19, 1815, his troop unit set out for Paris. In his diary he noted: "... and moved on July 7th to Montmartre, a village on a mountain near Paris."

With the Second Peace of Paris on November 20, 1815, his stay in Paris ended and Hoffmann moved from Paris to Lauterberg to live with his parents.

After the elevation of the Electorate of Hanover to the Kingdom of Hanover , Hoffmann studied mathematics and other sciences in Göttingen for a few semesters at the university there before he went back to the city of Hanover. There he taught both at the military school and in other houses.

View of the fireworks which were made on the orders of Sr. Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge .... and burned down on October 18th, 1821, the anniversary of the Leipzig Battle of the Nations in the palace gardens of Herrenhausen in the presence of Sr. Majesty the King. Sign .: drawn by the chief fireworker GH Hoffmann

As an autodidact , Hoffmann taught himself the art of lithography. Some of his works appeared in Heinrich Dittmer's Description of the Feasts and elsewhere. A lithograph by Hoffmann shows "Fireworks in Herrenhausen on October 18, 1821 in honor of King George IV ", who at that time visited his Hanoverian homeland as the newly crowned ruler of the British Empire.

In later years Hoffmann worked as a hydraulic engineering inspector.

Famous works

Hoffmann's lithographs can be found, for example

  • in Heinrich Dittmer (Hrsg.): Authentic and complete description of all the ceremonies, which in the Hanoverian country with the presence of his royal. Majesty George the Fourth during the month of October, 1821. Decorated with the similar portrait of Sr. Königl. Majesty, George IV, and one and twenty [including 2 colored] faithful images [in copper]. In addition to an encore: looking back on similar folk festivals of the Hanoverians in the 18th century. Self-published, Hanover, printed by Georg Christoph Schlüter, Helwingsche Hofbuchhandlung, 1822 ( archive.org ).
  • Printed lithograph "Fireworks in Herrenhausen on October 18, 1821 in honor of King George IV", in the possession of the Hanover Historical Museum

Awards

The Hanoverian address book for the year 1866 lists the hydraulic engineering inspector Georg Heinrich Hoffmann, who lives at Karlstrasse 1 , and was awarded with

literature

  • Franz Rudolf Zankl : View of the fireworks from October 18, 1821. Drawn and lithographed by the chief fireworker GH Hoffmann , in: Hannover Archive . Supplementary edition , sheets E – H 51

Web links

Commons : Georg Heinrich Hoffmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c o. V .: Hoffmann, Georg Heinrich in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek [undated], last accessed on October 12, 2018
  2. ↑ a b c d Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : Hoffmann (Georg Heinrich) , in ders .: Das Gelehre Hannover or Lexicon of writers, learned businessmen and artists who have lived in and outside of all the provinces belonging to the Kingdom of Hannover since the Reformation and still live, compiled from the most credible writers , vol. 2, Carl Schünemann, Bremen 1818, p. 700 digitized from Google books
  3. ↑ Alheidis von Rohr : Festdekorationen for the visit of George IV., 1821 , in this .: Picturesque-idealized. City views of Hanover from the 16th century to 2000 , exhibition catalog (= writings of the Historisches Museum Hanover, issue no. 17) Hanover 2000, p. 70
  4. ↑ a b Hanover / address book 1866 . wiki-de.genealogy.net. Retrieved April 19, 2019.
  5. ↑ Graf von Kielmannsegge (ed.): Königl.-Grossbrittanischer and Churfürstl. Braunschweig-Lüneburgischer Staats-Kalender 1803, Berenbergsche Buchdruckerey Lauenburg, p. 83 digitized at google books
  6. ↑ Dr. Julius v. Pflugk-Harttung: Belle Alliance (allied army), reports and information on the participation of German troops of Wellington's army in the battle at Quatrebras and the battle at Belle Alliance . No. 64 Report by the Hanoverian 1st nine-pounder battery Braun on their part in the battle at Belle Alliance.
  7. ↑ a b Castle and Gardens. Stage for the new kingdom , in Julian Strauss, Andreas Urban , Annika Wellmann-Stühring (eds.), Sid Auffarth , Thomas Schwark (collaborators): Palaces and gardens in Herrenhausen. From baroque to modern. For the exhibition of the Historisches Museum Hannover in the Museum Schloss Herrenhausen - May 2013 to March 2014 (= Writings of the Historisches Museum Hannover , vol. 41), Hannover: Historisches Museum, 2013, ISBN 978-3-910073-42-5 , p. 52 -58; here: pp. 54, 56
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Georg Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoffmann, Georg; Hofmann, Georg Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician, fireworker, artilleryman, teacher, draftsman and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Lauterberg , Harz
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1868
Place of death Hanover