Henriette Hertz

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Grave of Henriette Hertz, Cimitero acattolico, Rome 2017

Henriette Hertz (born January 6, 1846 in Cologne , † April 9, 1913 in Rome ) was a German patroness and art collector . The Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome goes back to her foundation .

Life

Henriette Hertz came from a petty-bourgeois Jewish background; Her father Abraham came from Gangelt near Geilenkirchen and had settled with his wife Rosa Hecht from Neuendorf and their children in Cologne in 1844 as a merchant and horse dealer. According to the entries, Henriette Hertz was the family's first child born in Cologne. Of her 16 siblings, seven survived childhood. Her niece, the painter Alide Goldschmidt, married the English philologist Israel Gollancz .

Henriette Hertz is best known for founding the first institute for art history in Rome , the Bibliotheca Hertziana , and its foundation as a legacy to the Kaiser Wilhelm Society (KWG). The library opened in mid-January 1913. In her codicil of March 21, 1913, she transferred the Palazzo Zuccari , which she had acquired in 1904, to the KWG , the entire inventory of her library (furnishings, books, manuscripts, photographs, etc.) as well as an endowment capital of £ 12,500 invested in securities to finance the Institute and 50,000 lire to expand the library. With the establishment of the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Palazzo Zuccari, Henriette Hertz wanted to advance research on Roman art history, especially the Renaissance .

She had a close friendship with the couple Frida and Ludwig Mond , the philosopher and Indologist Paul Deussen, and the art historian Ernst Steinmann , the founding director of the Bibliotheca Hertziana .

Her grave is in the Protestant Cemetery (Rome) , Zona Terza No. 8/115.

literature

  • Florens Deuchler :  Henriette Hertz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 714 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Julia Rischbieter: Henriette Hertz - patron and founder of the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome . Franz Steiner Verlag , Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 978-3-515-08581-6 .
  • Günter Schwabe: Henriette Hertz (1846–1913). In: Rheinische Lebensbilder. Vol. 17, ed. by Franz-Josef Heyen, Cologne 1997, pp. 141–166.
  • 100 years Bibliotheca Hertziana. Volume 1: The history of the institute 1913 - 2013; Volume 2: The Palazzo Zuccari and the institute buildings 1590 - 2013 , Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-7774-9051-9 .
  • Thomas Adam, Transnational Philanthropy: the Mond Family's Support for Public Institutions in Western Europe from 1890 to 1938, New York 2016.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Theater, Art and Literature. In:  Wiener Zeitung , January 25, 1913, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz
  2. ↑ Theater, Art and Literature. In:  Wiener Zeitung , April 12, 1913, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz
  3. ↑ In detail: History of the institute , accessed on December 28, 2014.
  4. ^ Cimitero Acattolico a Roma, Association of the Cemetery : Guide for visitors. The 'Protestant Cemetery' in Rome . Rome 2012.

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personal data
SURNAME Hertz, Henriette
SHORT DESCRIPTION German patroness
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1913
Place of death Rome