Heinrich Wilhelm Bachmann

Heinrich Wilhelm Bachmann (called the Younger ) (* 1737 in Magdeburg , † around 1776 in Saint Petersburg ) was a merchant, manufacturer and patron of the arts .

Life

Bachmann's father was the businessman Heinrich Wilhelm Bachmann the Elder , who immigrated to Magdeburg from Langenberg ( Duchy of Berg ) in 1734 and became a citizen of the Palatinate colony . Bachmann the Younger received upbringing and education from his tutor Johann Georg Sulzer . He took over the company of his father, who died on June 23, 1753, and, with a royal privilege, made silk and velvet braids from 1755. The company soon ran into economic difficulties, and Bachmann moved to Saint Petersburg and committed suicide there.

Bachmann became known through literary summer societies that his father had set up on his property in Magdeburg on the Werder river in 1750 . There writers like Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim , Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock or Anna Luise Karsch , but also theologians like Johann Samuel Patzke or the court preacher August Friedrich Sack from Berlin met with interested citizens to get to know and look at new works, art and music. Bachmann was also active as a patron of the arts, e.g. B. he sent Christian Fürchtegott Gellert 50 ducats for a commissioned poem. The poet Anna Luise Karsch, also sponsored by Bachmann, wrote the ode to friend Bachmann .

Bachmann was a member of the Magdeburg Freemason Lodge Ferdinand for happiness .

literature

• J. Fischer: The Palatinate Colony in Magdeburg. Magdeburg undated (1939)
• Martin Wiehle : Magdeburg personalities. Published by the Magistrate of the City of Magdeburg, Department of Culture. imPuls Verlag, Magdeburg 1993, ISBN 3-910146-06-6 .

Web links

• Ode to friend Bachmann (Karschin)

credentials

1. ^ Marion Maria Ruisinger : Healing with the knife. Surgical patients from Lorenz Heister's correspondence. In: Würzburger medical history reports 25, 2006, pp. 63–73, here: pp. 70 f.
2. ↑ Fischer, Palatinate Colony, page 85