Gotthard Friedrich Carstens
Gotthard Friedrich Carstens (* 1703 in Lübeck ; † July 14, 1780 there ) was a Lübeck merchant and councilor.
Life
Gotthard Friedrich Carstens was a son of the Lübeck merchant and councilor Nikolaus Carstens (1668–1735). He joined his father's company in 1719 and traveled from 1724 to 1725 to southern Germany, the Netherlands and northern France and in 1727 the eastern Baltic region with Riga, Narva, St. Petersburg and Danzig. He was a senior man in the merchant company and was elected to the council of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck in 1763. He was active in the council as a builder and, together with councilor Anton Diedrich Wilcken, led the construction of the first stone doll's bridge west of the Holsten Gate in Lübeck from 1768 to 1778 .
Carstens was married twice, his first marriage in 1734 to a daughter of the Lübeck citizen Peter Hinrich Tesdorpf († 1721). He then married a sister of Mayor Heinrich Brokes . He lived in a house on Breite Strasse . His funeral sermon was written by Johann Daniel Overbeck .
literature
- Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff : Historical writings from his estate , Volume 2, Rohden, Lübeck 1836, p. 387
- Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line , Lübeck 1925, No. 906
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fehling, Council Line , No. 859
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Carstens, Gotthard Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lübeck merchant and councilor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1703 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 14, 1780 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |