Heinrich Frans Angelo Antoine-Feill

Heinrich Frans Angelo Antoine-Feill (born January 12, 1819 in Hamburg ; † May 7, 1902 there ) was a German lawyer and art collector .

Life

Antoine-Feill was the son of Joseph Antoine, a member of the occupying power during the Hamburg French era . His wife Henriette Charlotte Fürth was his mother. On December 17, 1819, the parents divorced and his mother received her income from working as a cleaner with a shop on Jungfernstieg . On May 19, 1834, the mother married her neighbor, the Hamburg merchant Georg Heinrich Simon Christian Feill. Hence Heinrich Frans Angelo used the double name Antoine-Feill.

After attending school at Daniel Gottlieb Prömmel's prestigious educational institute , Antoine-Feill trained as a businessman at the request of his stepfather. On September 24, 1838, he received power of attorney in his company and became a partner on January 12, 1842. The company now traded as George Feill & Co. and specialized in the import of French manufactured goods. On business trips through Germany, France, Sweden, England and Holland, Antoine-Feill was able to acquire extensive foreign language skills.

Georg Feill's house on Jungfernstieg was destroyed in the Hamburg fire in 1842. During the reconstruction of the building there was a legal dispute with the finance department , in which Antoine-Feill represented the company before the lower court. Inspired by this experience, he decided to study law in 1844 and attended university, first in Berlin and then from October 25, 1845 in Heidelberg . In August 1846 he was at the University of Heidelberg "summa cum laude" for Dr. jur. PhD. On September 25, 1846, he acquired Hamburg citizenship . Antoine-Feill was enrolled as a lawyer in Hamburg on October 2, 1846 , he founded a practice in his stepfather's house and worked as a lawyer until the mid-1880s.

On April 23, 1854, Antoine-Feill married his cousin Therese Mathilde Bruce, whose mother was the sister of Antoine-Feill's mother. This marriage resulted in two sons and a daughter. At the beginning of the 1860s he gave up his domicile on Jungfernstieg and bought the house on Neuer Jungfernstieg 10 for the family . He also rented a summer house in Eppendorf . One of his sons was the lawyer and patron Heinrich Nils Antoine-Feill (1855–1922), who joined his law firm in 1879 as a partner.

Antoine-Feill was a member of the Hamburg Parliament from 1859 to 1865 . There he acted as secretary in 1864 and 1865 .

His competence in the field of trade and maritime law found particular recognition . For several years he was chairman of the Nautical Association. From 1879 Antoine-Feil initially acted as deputy chairman of the Hanseatic Bar Association and after Isaac Wolffson's death he was elected its successor as its first chairman in 1895.

"Heinrich Frans Angelo Antoine-Feill", collective grave for advocates , Ohlsdorf cemetery

In his private time, Antoine-Feill devoted himself to the arts. He owned a picture gallery, which was one of the most extensive private collections in Hamburg. In addition to paintings by old masters such as Rembrandt and Rubens , his collection included works by modern painters. From 1850 Antoine-Feill was chairman of the Hamburg chess club for about 10 years , and since 1884 its honorary chairman. He also valued music and was involved in founding the Hamburg Music Friends Association in 1896.

After the death of the Hamburg merchant Abraham Philipp Schuldt , Antoine-Feill acted as his executor. He was chairman of the Abraham Philipp Schuldt Foundation from October 8, 1892 to April 4, 1901 and was a member of the board until the end of his life.

Antoine-Feill died in his house on Neuer Jungfernstieg. The burial took place with great sympathy in the cemetery of the main church St. Katharinen , which belonged to the Dammtor cemeteries . Antoine Feill's art collection was auctioned off after his death.

In the Ohlsdorf cemetery , in the area of ​​the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery near the main entrance to the cemetery, the collective grave of Advokaten commemorates Heinrich Frans Angelo Antoine-Feill , among others .

Estate catalogs

• Catalog of the selected and extensive gallery of old masters from the estate of the lawyer Dr. Heinrich Frans Angelo Antoine-Feill zu Hamburg: Paintings by outstanding masters of the German, French, Italian and Dutch schools of the XV-XVIII centuries. JM Heberle, Cologne 1903 ( digitized version ).
• Catalog of selected and outstanding paintings and watercolors by the first more recent masters, from the estate of the lawyer Dr. Heinrich Frans Angelo Antoine-Feill, in Hamburg ... the German, French, Italian ... schools of the XIX. Century JM Heberle, Cologne 1903 ( digitized ).

literature

• Wilhelm Heyden: The members of the Hamburg citizenship 1859–1862 . Festschrift for December 6, 1909. Herold in Komm., Hamburg 1909, p. 33-34 .
• Geert Seelig : Dr. HFA Antoine-Feill and the law firm he founded - a legal, cultural and historical perspective of more than 100 years. Hamburg 1979.
• Renate Hauschild-Thiessen: Antoine-Feill, Heinrich Frans Angelo . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 5 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0640-0 , p. 23-25 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gustav Toepke: The register of the University of Heidelberg . 5th part. Carl Winter's University Bookstore, Heidelberg 1904, p. 771 ( online ).
2. ↑ Gerrit Schmidt: The history of the Hamburg legal profession from 1815 to 1879. Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3923725175 , p. 346.