Jacques Garrigue

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Jacques Garrigue (* 1677 in Mazamet , Languedoc , France ; † August 24, 1730 in Magdeburg ) was a jeweler and church councilor (ancien) of the French Reformed Church in Magdeburg.

Life

Jacques Garrigue came from an ancient noble family from Languedoc. The wars of religion in the 17th century forced Jacques grandparents, Jean de la Garrigue and Elisabeth Rossignoll as Huguenots , to leave France for reasons of faith. They moved to Holland with three of their children , where they also died. Jacques' father Pierre, who remained in the country, and his brother Moyse Garrigue (the elder) were deprived of property and titles of nobility . They became commercial citizens . The coat of arms of the de la Garrigue family has been preserved and was used for a long time. It is emblazoned as follows: "Shield divided horizontally, in the upper field 2 crossed acorns, in the lower 5 oak trees". The acorns and oak trees directly reflect the content of the name Garrigue.

After the Edict of Nantes was repealed in 1685, the nine-year-old Jacques fled Mazamet to Germany with his uncle Moyse Garrigue in 1686. They accepted the invitation of the Great Elector to Brandenburg ( Edict of Potsdam of October 29, 1685). Jacques father Pierre fled with his second wife from Mazamet to the Vaucluse, in the nearby Duchy of Orange , which at that time was not yet under the French crown.

The refugees Jacques and Moyse Garrigue reached Magdeburg via the intermediate stations in Bayreuth and Halle . Here Jacques learned the craft of goldsmith and jeweler from his uncle Moyse Garrigue . After a few years as a journeyman, he joined his uncle's business as a partner. He married on October 18, 1707 Marguérite Nicolas (* 1686, Grenoble , † September 1726, Prenzlau ), a daughter of the parliamentary advocate Jean Nicolas from Grenoble. They had 14 children, only five of whom grew up. His eldest son Moyse Garrigue (born September 9, 1708) was, as well as himself and uncle Moyse, a jeweler. After his uncle Moyse Garrigue (the elder), Jacques Garrigue was a lifelong director of the large Garrigue family living in Magdeburg. Jacques himself, like his son Moyse Garrigue, married among French compatriots. His daughters Marie Louise and Justine Marguérite married the preacher August Friedrich Sack and the Magdeburg citizen and tobacco dealer Isaac Abraham Schwartz, a son of the mayor of the Palatinate colony Philipp Schwartz , while his granddaughter Marianne Garrigue, through her marriage to Johann Ernst Gaertner , was in the middle the Magdeburg civil society entered.

Act

Jacques Garrigue was introduced to public offices in the French colony in Magdeburg early on by his uncle Moyse : in 1699, as a young man, he accompanied his uncle Moyse, who was holding talks with the electoral authority in Berlin on behalf of the colony. On October 28, 1707, at the age of thirty, Jacques Garrigue became a citizen of the French colony. From 1710 he ran his uncle's business independently, which he took over after his uncle's death in 1715 and ran it together with his half-brother, the goldsmith Jean Garrigue. He was committed to the French Colony and the French Reformed Church. Around 1715 he was elected the ancien (elder) of his church. He filled the office for many years. Repeatedly he appeared in the French colony of Magdeburg as a believer for other colony members. These were sums of up to 400 thalers. The esteem he enjoyed can be seen, among other things, from the fact that the French Reformed Church Congregation deviated from the strict and puritanical Reformed funeral rite after his death and allowed an epitaph for his grave.

literature

  • Johannes Fischer: The French colony of Magdeburg. Magdeburg cultural and economic life No. 22, 1942.
  • Ed. Muret: History of the French Colony in Brandenburg-Prussia. 1885.
  • Rolf Straubel: merchants and manufacturing entrepreneurs. F. Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1995.
  • Henri Tollin: The French Colony in Magdeburg. Publishing house Niemeyer, Halle 1887.
  • CHN Garrigues: Silhouettes of Garrigues and some other profiles. Orbis Publishing House, Prague 1930.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johannes Fischer: The French Colony of Magdeburg. Magdeburg cultural and economic life No. 22, 1942, p. 147
  2. ↑ Dr. R. Béringuier, Family Trees of the Members of the French Colony in Berlin, Berlin 1885, page 17
  3. ↑ Johannes Fischer: The French Colony of Magdeburg, Magdeburger Kultur- und Wirtschaftsleben No. 22, 1942, page 148
  4. ^ Henri Tollin: The French Colony in Magdeburg. Publishing house Niemeyer, Halle 1887, page 490
  5. ^ Johannes Fischer: The French Colony of Magdeburg. Magdeburg Cultural and Economic Life No. 22, 1942, pp. 114–115
personal data
SURNAME Garrigue, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jeweler and church council (ancien) of the French Reformed Church in Magdeburg
DATE OF BIRTH 1677
PLACE OF BIRTH Mazamet , Languedoc , France
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1730
Place of death Magdeburg