Johann Bernhard Crespel
Johann Bernhard Crespel (also: Johann Bernhard Krespel ) (born March 27, 1747 in Frankfurt am Main ; † November 24, 1813 in Laubach ) was a German lawyer , archivist and writer.
Life
Johann Bernhard Crespel was the son of Pierre Louis Alexandre Crespel (born January 10, 1705 in Douai , † March 22, 1794 in Frankfurt am Main), a jeweler in Frankfurt am Main and his wife Katharina Elisabeth (1711–1770), a daughter of Bernhard Rohr (1675–1729), resident and administrator of the Darmstädter Hof on the Zeil in Frankfurt am Main, was born. His siblings were:
- Maria Catharina Crespel (1749-1801);
- Francisca Jacobea (1752–1819) Jaquet b. Crespel. She was called "Fränzchen". Married to Peter Friedrich Jaquet, businessman for watches and watchmaking tools.
He was married to Maria Henriette (* December 7, 1753 in Gera , † June 1, 1829 in Laubach), a daughter of Johann Henrich Schmiedel, a merchant in Gera, since March 27, 1787 . They had five children together:
- Maria Lucretia (* 1788, † 1 month old);
- Catharina Louisa (1789–1852), married to Georg Friedrich Andreas Buderus , businessman and Bergrat ;
- Ludwig Alexander (born August 15, 1790 in Frankfurt am Main, † 1884), chief smelter in charge of the Gravenhorster ironworks and later the founder of the still existing company Crespel & Deiters in Ibbenbüren;
- Francisca Jacobea (1792-1826);
- Dominicus Bernhard (born June 5, 1794 in Frankfurt am Main, † September 21, 1863 in Laubach), he was a Mechanicus in Laubach.
In June 1755 Johann Bernhard Crespel became a pupil of the painter and drawing teacher Johann Nicolaus Roland, who ran an academy in the stone house .
In the winter of 1759/1760 he attended school in Bruchsal and entered the Jesuit college in Pont à Mousson in August 1760 . In November 1761 he was back in Frankfurt am Main and in the following year again at a school in Metz for a year . In June 1763 he finally returned to Frankfurt.
On April 3, 1764, accompanied by his father, he presented the newly crowned Emperor Joseph II with a hatagraffe (collective term for everything decorative for ladies' and gentlemen's hats) worth 300,000 guilders.
He continued his academic training in Paris with legal studies. He then studied from 1766 to 1768 at the University of Würzburg . In November 1768 he attended the Imperial Court of Justice in Wetzlar and in April 1769 the University of Göttingen . Now he returned to Frankfurt and worked there as an assessor . In 1771 he acquired citizenship .
He was now working as an archivist for the Thurn und Taxis House in Regensburg , but returned to Frankfurt in May 1777, where he continued to work as an archivist and administrator of the Thurn und Taxis property, including the Thurn Palace and taxis . Shortly afterwards he was appointed councilor .
The father died in 1794 and Johann Bernhard Crespel sold his parents' house and moved to Laubach, where he prepared legal expertise for the succession of fiefdoms to Count Friedrich zu Solms-Laubach, who had come to the government ten years earlier . He built himself a new house in an unusual way, this house building is portrayed in ironic form by ETA Hoffmann in his story Rat Krespel . This house was bought by Count Friedrich zu Solms-Laubach from the heirs in 1877 and made available to the poor and orphanage as "Johann-Friedrich-Stift" (today: Oberhessisches Diakoniezentrum ). In Laubach from then on he indulged in natural philosophical speculations that had preoccupied him since his time in Göttingen. In it, under much abstruse conceptual fantasy, two basic ideas of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe shine : polarity and intensification.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Eugen Klimsch
The Friend (Crespel) lets the ladies pull the rolls out of the bag
Wood engraving, around 1880
Link to the picture
(Please note copyrights )
Johann Bernhard Crespel grew up in a house that belonged to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's grandfather, Johann Wolfgang Textor , and was friends with the Goethe family as a child, so he attended social gatherings in childhood and as a teenager and young adult of the Goethe Circle participated. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe himself describes the Mariage games of Bernhard Crespel in the sixth book of Poetry and Truth . After Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's departure from Frankfurt in 1770, his mother, Catharina Elisabeth Goethe , called Johann Bernhard Crespel "her dear son Bernhard". Crespel was also familiar with Sophie von La Roche and Maximiliane Brentano .
“A great knowledge of the world and people, but only from the bad side” (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) gave him the reputation of an eccentric early on and, in addition to some oddly original, also melancholy-pessimistic and Mephistophelic traits. In literary terms, Johann Bernhard Crespel lives on in the figure of Bernardo in the 1st version of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Singspiel Erwin und Elmire , in ETA Hoffmann's novella Rat Krespel , for which Clemens Brentano probably provided the biographical material, and in Jacques Offenbach's opera Hoffmann's Stories , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe also mentions him in his biography Poetry and Truth under a picture with the title “The friend (Crespel) lets the ladies pull the rolls out of the bag”.
His sister Katharina (1749–1801) induced Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to write the poem In the Stud Book Johann Peter de Reynier , she is mentioned in the poem as "Virgins Flor".
Trivia
Adventure tours are offered in Laubach, one of which is the tour "Crespeln and nagging: Out and about with Councilor Crespel and the cold man".
Fonts (selection)
- Fleeting outline of a theory of nature . Friedrich Eßlinger, Frankfurt 1790.
literature
- Wilhelm Hertz: Bernhard Crespel, Goethe's childhood friend, based on unprinted letters and documents from the Frankfurt Goethe circle. With 41 picture additions . Munich 1914. Internet Archive = Google-USA * = Penn State-USA *
- Gottfried Wilhelm Hertz, Johann Bernhard Crespel: Crespel, Johann Bernhard: Thurn and Taxischer Hofrat and archivist, philosophical writer. 1747-1813 . Place of publication cannot be determined, 1934.
Web links
- Crespel, Johann Bernhard. Hessian biography. (As of March 25, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Crespel, Bernhard in the Frankfurt personal dictionary
Individual evidence
- ^ German biography: Crespel, Bernhard - German biography. Retrieved February 14, 2018 .
- ↑ Crespel, Johann Bernhard. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- ^ The Crespel & Deiters family - Crespel & Deiters . In: Crespel Deiters DE . September 7, 2016 ( crespeldeitersgroup.com [accessed February 14, 2018]).
- ^ ETA Hoffmann: Council Krespel (book tip). Retrieved February 14, 2018 .
- ↑ Goethe's idea of polarity and increase . forum-dreigliederung.de. Archived from the original on July 2, 2017. Retrieved May 21, 2019.
- ↑ Eugen Wolff: The young Goethe . BoD - Books on Demand, 2017, p. 618 ( google.de [accessed on February 14, 2018]).
- ^ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Complete edition of the works and writings in twenty-two volumes: Poetic works . JG Cotta, 1659, p. 953 ( google.de [accessed on February 14, 2018]).
- ↑ Historical adventure tours. Retrieved February 14, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Crespel, Johann Bernhard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Krespel, Johann Bernhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, archivist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1747 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 24, 1813 |
| Place of death | Laubach |