Johann Baptist Farina

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Johann Baptist Farina IV 1758–1844, (painting by Simon Meister 1836)
The determining committee in 1823, Johann Baptist Farina sits in the front right
Grave complex in the Melaten cemetery

Johann Baptist Farina (born February 6, 1758 in Cologne ; † January 30, 1844 there ) was an Eau-de-Cologne manufacturer and grandson of the founder of the oldest Eau-de-Cologne factory Johann Maria Farina across from Jülichs-Platz , founded in 1709.

Farina is a son of Johann Maria Farina III ( 1713 - 1792 ).

He was a co-founder of the Festordnenden Komitee in 1823, later the Cologne Carnival Festival Committee , and thus one of the founding fathers of today's Cologne Carnival .

Farina died on January 30, 1844 and was buried in Cologne's Melaten cemetery (Hauptweg).

literature

  • Robert Steimel: Versippt with Cologne I , Steimel Verlag Köln-Zollstock 1955, plate 48

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Josef Abt, Johann Ralf Beines, Celia Körber-Leupold: Melaten - Cologne graves and history . Greven, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7743-0305-3 , p. 177
personal data
SURNAME Farina, Johann Baptist
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1758
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1844
Place of death Cologne