Gustav Amsinck
Gustav Amsinck (born August 24, 1837 in Hamburg ; † June 8, 1909 in New York ) was a Hamburg merchant and patron .
Life
Gustav Amsinck came from the resident since the 16th century in Hamburg Hanseatic family Amsinck . His father Johannes Amsinck was the sole owner of the company Johannes Schuback & Sons , which was mainly engaged in trade with Portugal and its colonies . After a commercial apprenticeship in his father's company, Amsinck went to New York for further training via Portugal, Spain, France and England, where he joined the company of his older brother Erdwin Amsinck in 1858 . After his return to Hamburg, Gustav continued to run the company and, as his brother's successor, also became the Portuguese Consul General in New York. From November 25, 1876 to October 8, 1878, he was the official representative of Portugal in the USA as a temporary chargé d'affaires of the Portuguese embassy in Washington.
As a friend of the arts and sciences, Amsinck sponsored the New York Museum of Modern Art and was one of the co-founders of the Hamburg Scientific Foundation in 1907 .
For his stays in Hamburg, Amsinck bought a villa on Neuer Jungfernstieg, which was built by Franz Gustav Joachim Forsmann for the banker Gottlieb Jenisch in 1831–33 . Today the listed “ Amsinck-Palais ” serves as the domicile of the Übersee-Club .
literature
- Renate Hauschild-Thiessen: Amsinck, Gustav . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 2 . Christians, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-7672-1366-4 , pp. 29-29 .
- Constanze Rheinholz: Gustav Amsinck. A Hamburg wholesaler in New York. Hamburg 2011 ISBN 978-3-937816-92-0 ( full text )
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of the Portuguese ambassadors to the United States ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Diplomatic Institute of the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, accessed February 20, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Amsinck, Gustav |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German merchant and patron |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 24, 1837 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 8, 1909 |
| Place of death | new York |