Jacob Breuls

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Jacob Breuls (born September 7, 1749 in Eupen ; † August 21, 1803 in Bremen ) was a lawyer and Bremen councilor and Bremen mayor .

biography

Breuls was the son of Jakob Breuls († 1785), a native Bremen cloth merchant and manufacturer, who lived temporarily in Aachen and moved to Eupen in the neighboring Austrian Netherlands , and of the manufacturer's daughter Martha Blankaert. He was married to the senator's daughter Metta Dwerhagen, and both had eleven children.

After graduating from high school , he studied law at the University of Göttingen from 1768 . He received his doctorate in both rights in 1773 .

In 1776 he became a councilor in the Bremen council. In the same year, a ten-meter-wide house with a rococo facade was built for him at Katharinenstrasse 13 . From April 11, 1798 to September 16, 1808 he was the successor of Gerhard von dem Busch mayor of Bremen; his successor in office was Heinrich Lampe . Breuls resigned from office on his death.

Adolph Knigge dedicated his comic novel Die Reise nach Braunschweig , published in 1792, to his " longtime friend Doctor and Senator Breuls in Bremen " .

See also

literature

  • Nicola Wurthmann: Senators, friends and families . State Archive Bremen Vol. 69, Bremen 2009, ISBN 978-3-925729-55-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rudolf Stein: Classicism and Romanticism in the Architecture of Bremen , Volume 1, Hauschild, 1964, p. 360.
  2. ↑ Adoph Knigge: Old edition of The trip to Brunswick
personal data
SURNAME Breuls, Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bremen lawyer, senator and mayor
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1749
PLACE OF BIRTH Eupen
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1803
Place of death Bremen