Jean Pierre Erman

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jean Pierre Erman (1735-1814)

Jean Pierre Erman (born March 1, 1735 in Berlin ; †  August 11, 1814 there ) was a German historian and Protestant theologian.

Life

Erman came from a Geneva family who moved to Berlin in 1720. At the age of 17 he already became a teacher at the French Gymnasium in Berlin and before he was 20 he was a preacher in the French community, for whose development he made a great contribution. In 1766 he was appointed director of the French grammar school and in 1783 was appointed senior consistorial councilor.

In 1786 Erman was accepted into the Prussian Academy of Sciences and in 1792 appointed historiographer of Brandenburg history.

After French troops occupied Berlin after the double battle lost for Prussia at Jena and Auerstedt , there was a brief conversation on October 28, 1806 between the victorious Emperor of the French Napoleon Bonaparte and the 71-year-old Erman, who led a delegation from Berliners Clergy stand in the Berlin Palace . In this conversation Erman defended Prussian politics as well as the Prussian Queen Louise against Napoleon's accusations and replied to Napoleon's accusation that he was French and should actually welcome the victory of France, that he as a loyal subject of the Prussian crown and supporter of the Reformed faith Napoleon's presence in this place “could only see with great pain”. Napoleon is said to have said after the interview: "Aujourd'hui j'ai rencontré quelqu'un, qui ma bien dit mes vérités." ("Today I met someone who told me real truths.").

After the events of 1806, Erman, like most Huguenots in Prussia, gave up the use of the French mother tongue in protest against the French occupation and in future used German.

family

His parents were Jean-Pierre Erman (* May 17, 1710; † May 5, 1762) and his wife Susanne Mercier (* 1706; † January 5, 1745). He had no brothers, but a sister Marie Charlotte (1739-1802), who was married to the merchant Charles Lecoq (1736-1814). The latter became the first director of David Splitgerber's Berlin sugar boiler in 1749 .

On September 22, 1759, Jean Pierre Erman married Louise Lecoq (October 12, 1738 - November 11, 1791), a daughter of the influential tobacco trader Paul Lecoq (January 9, 1703 - April 9, 1769) and his wife Anna Jordan (November 19, 1711 - January 9, 1739). His son Paul Erman was a well-known physicist in Berlin. Another son became pastor of the French Reformed congregation in Potsdam in 1783; he committed suicide in 1805.

Works

  • Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des réfugiés . 9 volumes. Berlin (1792–1799) with Pierre Christian Frédéric Reclam
  • Mémoire historique sur la fondation du Collège Royal François de Berlin; à l'occasion du jubilé célébré le December 1, 1789 / rédigé par Erman. Starcke, Berlin 1789
  • Sermons sur divers textes de l'ecriture sainte, par M. Erman, ministre du S. Evangile et Pasteur de l'Eglise réformée françoise de Potsdam. S. Fauche, Neuchatel and Hamburg 1791.
  • Mémoire historique sur la fondation des colonies françoises dans les États du Roi: publié à l'occasion du jubilé qui sera célébré le 29 October MDCCLXXXV digitized
  • Mémoire historique sur la fondation de l'Église françoise de Berlin digitized
  • Mémoire historique sur la fondation de l'Eglise françoise de Potsdam digitized
  • Eloge Historique De Sophie Charlotte Reine De Prusse: Second Mémoire. Lu dans l'Assemblée publique de l'Académie Royale des Sciences & Belles Lettres du 3rd Février 1791 Digitized
  • Mémoires pour servir à l 'histoire de Sophie Charlotte, pure de Prusse. Berlin, Starcke, 1801

literature

  • P. Hummel: Jean-Pierre Erman (1733-1814) et la Renaissance humaniste du collège français de Berlin. In: Wiener Studien Nr. 11, pp. 253–266. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1879.
  • Wilhelm Erman : Jean Pierre Erman (1735-1814). A picture of life from the Berlin French colony . Berlin, ES Mittler and Son, 1914.
  • Wilhelm Erman: Paul Erman: a Berlin scholarly life; 1764-1851 . Writings of the Association for the History of Berlin. Berlin 1927. ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the BBAW
  2. ↑ Jean Pierre Erman: Record of his conversation with Napoleon on October 28, 1806. 1806, accessed on December 27, 2016 (original in the possession of the Bonn University Library).
  3. ↑ Valeska von Roques: Our dear Huguenots. Der Spiegel, December 2, 1985, accessed December 27, 2016 .
  4. ^ Wilhelm Erman: Paul Erman . A scholarly life in Berlin 1764-1851. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Berlin . tape 53 . Verlag des Verein für die Geschichte Berlins, 1927, p. 146 , urn : nbn: de: kobv: 109-opus-140313 .
personal data
SURNAME Erman, Jean Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1735
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1814
Place of death Berlin