Johann Anton Lucius

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Johann Anton Lucius (* 1742; † 1810) was a merchant from Erfurt and founder of the Johann Anton Lucius company .

He was the son of Johann Michael Lucius (1719-1806) and received on 25 May 1763 in Erfurt , the civil rights as an independent merchant. In the same year he opened a woolen manufacture on Langen Brücke 57/58 in Erfurt and began trading in woolen goods and “cotton fabrics”. His father had already done that too; The son also got into the manufacture of cotton goods. In 1782 he acquired a concession to expand his company to include a cutting business.

Lucius married Klara Rosenstengel (1741-1810) on July 10, 1763 in Erfurt. The couple had eleven children. When Lucius died, his brother Johann Jakob and his son Sebastian Lucius , who had previously worked in the business, took over the company in 1810.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to City chronicle at Erfurt-Online
  2. ↑ according to Nassau Annals. Yearbook of the Association for Nassau Antiquity and Historical Research , Volume 105, Association for Nassau Antiquity and Historical Research (ed.), Verlag des Verein für Nassauische Altertumskunde und Geschichtsforschung, 1994, p. 150
  3. ↑ according to Genealogisches Handbuch des Nels , Volume 7, Deutsches Adelsarchiv, Deutscher Adelsrechtsausschuss, CA Starke, 1954, p. 237
  4. ↑ according to Hans-Werner Hahn , Werner Greiling and Klaus Ries , middle class in Thuringia. Lifeworld and ways of life in the early 19th century , Hain Wissenschaft, 2001, p. 168

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SURNAME Lucius, Johann Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH 1742
DATE OF DEATH 1810