Heinrich Mylius (businessman)

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Heinrich Mylius (born March 15, 1769 in Frankfurt am Main , † April 21, 1854 in Milan ) was a merchant , banker and patron .

Life

La filanda Mylius by Giovanni Migliara , 1828. The painting commissioned by Mylius himself shows his silk spinning in Boffalora sopra Ticino .

Heinrich Mylius was born in 1769 as the youngest son of the Frankfurt banker and businessman Johann Christoph Mylius (1715–1791) and his wife Dorothea Kraus (1728–1784). At the age of 19 he moved to Milan to set up and manage a branch of his father's business, Mylius & Aldebert . In a short time Heinrich Mylius became prosperous through the trade in fabrics and especially silk . In addition to trading, Mylius also worked as a banker. He built his company in Milan into one of the leading banks in Milan. From 1803 he was a member of the Milan Chamber of Commerce and was the only foreigner elected to the city council of Milan.

In April 1799 Mylius married Friederike Christine Schnauß (1771–1851), who came from Weimar, the 2nd daughter of the privy councilor Christian Friedrich Schnauß (1722–1797) and maid of honor of Anna Amalia von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel . The couple was married in the court church of Weimar by the court preacher and superintendent Gottfried Herder . The home of Heinrich Mylius and his wife in Milan was the meeting point for the leading figures in the region.

In 1829 Mylius bought a villa and its five hectare park in Menaggio on Lake Como . After the early death of the only son Julius (1800-1829), who had married Luigia Vitali (1809-1884) shortly before his death, Mylius gradually withdrew from business life and concentrated on his property on Lake Como . He expanded the villa into a meeting place for scholars, writers, politicians and scientists. Today, as Villa Vigoni, it is the seat of the German-Italian Center for European Excellence .

In 1831 Mylius commissioned a tempietto for his deceased son , which was built in the upper part of the park.

Mylius always kept in close contact with his hometown. He was close friends with the Frankfurt African explorer Eduard Rüppell . Mylius has supported projects in Frankfurt am Main through numerous donations. His financial donations went to the areas of raising children, supporting those in need and science. He donated a total of 140,000 guilders for the construction of the supply house, toddler schools, for the Dutch congregation of the Augsburg Confession and the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research .

Heinrich Mylius died on April 21, 1854 at the age of 85 in Milan. He was buried next to his wife in the family crypt of his villa near Menaggio. He left the Frankfurt City Library a manuscript of Dante's Divine Comedy from the first half of the 14th century .

1920 Mylius-Bernocchi textile fashion factory

The son of Giorgio Mylius could not cope with the industrial crisis after the great war of 1915/18 and will seek the help of the Bernocchi family. The Mylius cotton mill in Cogozzo will be sold to industrialist Antonio Bernocchi in April 1920, who will be part of the Bernocchi textile-fashion industry called " Cotonificio Mylius-Bernocchi ".

Mylius Bernocchi Prize

In 1841 the " Mylius Bernocchi Prize " was founded with the aim of increasing and spreading landscape painting. The prize was awarded to two types of painting: an annual 700 lire for oil paintings and a biennial of 1000 Austrian lire for frescoes.

Honors

Myliusstrasse in Frankfurt's Westend was named after him in 1873 . On the occasion of his 250th birthday (2019), Villa Vigoni organized an exhibition in Frankfurt in cooperation with the Museum Giersch of the Goethe University .

literature

  • Frank Baasner : The Mylius-Vigoni. Germans and Italians in the 19th and 20th centuries (= Villa Vigoni eV - German-Italian Center [Hrsg.]: Series of the Villa Vigoni . Volume 8 ). Niemeyer, Tübingen 1992, ISBN 3-484-67008-8 .
  • Low Mylius, Lotte Mylius: In the footsteps of Heinrich Mylius (1769-1854) . In: News from the Mylius family . tape 4 , no. 21 , 1987, ZDB -ID 290743-4 , K10plusPPN 1569444137 SWB-ID 499444132, p. 1475-1525 .
  • Horst Gering Mylius: History of the Mylius-Schleiz families from the Gerung and Mylius-Ansbach family: 1375 - 1990; Revised family chronicles from 1895, 1917 and 1959 and their addition up to the present day . G. Mylius, Freiburg im Breisgau, Hallerstr. 20 1992, DNB  921272723 .
  • Johann Carl Mylius : History of the Mylius families. Genealog.-biograph. Family chronicle of all times and countries . Self-published, Buttstädt 1895, DNB  36125430X .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Scheda Cotonificio Mylius, sfogliami.it, pp 1-17 [1]
  2. ^ [2] , Da Placido Maria Visaj, Guida di Milano per l'anno 1856, p. 155
personal data
SURNAME Mylius, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Merchant, banker and patron
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1769
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1854
Place of death Milan