Heinrich Simon (businessman)

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Heinrich Simon (* after 1732 in Hamburg ; † 1799 there ) was a German merchant and bibliophile collector in Hamburg.

Life

Heinrich Simon was the son of Johann Heinrich Simon the Elder. J. and grandson of the Hamburg City Syndic Johann Heinrich Simon the Elder. Ä. and the younger brother of the culturally interested lawyer Peter Simon . Like his brother, the merchant collected books and works of art, especially graphics. In 1787 Heinrich Simon, like his older brother, also single and childless, determined his estate for the Hamburg City Library (today Hamburg State and University Library ): “I bequeath my library, my Medicean Venus, my sleeping Venus made of wax and all my unframed copperplate engravings I belong to the local city library. ”After his death in 1799, around 400 books with the aforementioned Venus casts and engravings went to the library. In the preserved files on gifts to the library from 1750–1790 in the library archive (BA VI, 4), only 34 copper engravings with mythological and historical motifs, seaports and landscapes and 70 sheets of animal pictures by Johann Elias Ridinger (1698 -1767). Without specifying the number, Piranesi's views of Rome (1756), architectural cracks and a volume with cityscapes are also given.

literature

  • Joachim Anton Rudolf Janssen: Detailed news about all the evangelical-protestant churches and clergy in the free and Hanseatic city of Hamburg and their area. As well as about their Johanneum, grammar school, library, and the men employed there. Self-published, Hamburg 1826.
  • Christian Petersen: History of the Hamburg City Library. Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1838.
  • Antje Theise: The copper engraving collection of the State and University Library Hamburg. In: Iris Wenderholm (Ed.): Manner, Mythos and Moral. Dutch prints from around 1600 from the holdings of the Hamburg State and University Library. Michael Imhof, Petersberg 2014, pp. 8–13.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Petersen 1838, 85. - Janssen wrongly attributes the gift of the Medicean Venus to Peter Simon in his description of the Hamburg city library. See Janssen 1826, 500.
personal data
SURNAME Simon, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant and bibliophile collector in Hamburg
DATE OF BIRTH after 1732
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 1799
Place of death Hamburg