Joachim Trump

Joachim Trumpf , also Joachim Trumph , often wrong in older literature Joachim Trump , (born September 12, 1687 in Malchow (Mecklenburg) , † November 4, 1769 in (Burg) Stargard ) was a German sexton, organist, astronomer and instrument maker.

Life

Trumpf was born as the son of the sexton and linen weaver Christoffer Trumpf (* 1663) and his wife Catharina, b. Haveman (* 1665) born in Malchow. He grew up in Malchow and Kittendorf, learned the weaving trade from his father after poor schooling and then worked as a weaver journeyman with his father. In 1712 [according to other sources, 1706] Trumpf successfully applied for the post of sexton and organist in Ivenack , which he held throughout his life.

In Ivenack, Trumpf began to self-taught in many areas of the emerging natural sciences and music. He corresponded with Johann Mattheson about his new edition of the "Musicalische Handleitung" , continued to educate himself and gained great skill. He repaired and built mechanical and sundials, learned to play the piano and became an organist. Trumpf also worked as a farmer and land surveyor, built organs and hydraulic machines, and was consulted on the construction of water art, cascades and fountains. He became a well-known personality, was in correspondence with many celebrities of his time and always strived for new knowledge of nature.

In the 1740s, Trumpf built Mecklenburg's first verifiable observatory in Ivenack . For this purpose he built the world's largest celestial telescope at the time , based on the model of Hevelius , made a tube for which he ground the glasses himself, made optical glasses for the Rostock mathematics professor Petrus Becker , and experimented with electricity.

Trumpf died at Stargard during the installation of an organ that had already been made earlier, which the local parish had acquired for the rebuilt city church, and in his last weeks he had close contact with the evangelical pastor and naturalist Gottlob Burchard Genzmer , who published an obituary for Trumpf .

Joachim Trumpf was married (at least) twice. A daughter is known from his first marriage. When Trumpf remarried at the age of 74 in 1761, his bride was 52 years younger than him, as the Ivenack pastor noted in the church book.

Works (selection)

Trumpf wrote down his extensive knowledge in eight quarto volumes from 1762–1769, which, however, could no longer be found two generations later.

As an organ builder

• Around 1700 participation in the new organ in the church in Ivenack (2 manuals and pedal)
• 1721 Repair plan for the organ in Teterow
• around 1721 repair of the organ in Malchin
• 1722 Repair and improvement of the organ in Demmin, St. Bartholomäuskirche
• 1769 Installation of a previously made organ in (Burg) Stargard, unfinished (2 manuals and pedal, 16 registers)
• [Mentioned in the obituary:] an organ with 36 registers that T. had created over 16 years of work and installed in his apartment

literature

• Gottlob Burchard Genzmer : Message from a recently deceased Mecklenburg artist and autodidact, Joachim Trumpf, sexton and organist at Ivenack in Schwerin . In: Useful contributions to the Neue Strelitzschen advertisements 2, 1770, 2, Sp. 113–120; 2, 1770, 3, col. 121-126.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ not on November 5th or in the year 1686
2. ↑ not on November 5th

Web links

• Literature about Joachim Trumpf in the state bibliography MV