Johann Caspar Richter

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Johann Caspar Richter as head of the Georgenhaus. Painting by Elias Gottlob Haussmann , 1756.

Johann Caspar Richter (born September 16, 1708 in Leipzig ; † August 7, 1770 there ) was a merchant , councilor and council builder in Leipzig.

Life

Johann Caspar Richter was the son of the Leipzig merchant Christian Richter. In his father's company and later in his own companies, he operated bills of exchange and traded in goods from overseas as well as in English and Dutch wool and silk fabrics.

In 1739 he became a member of the Familiar Society and in 1749 councilor in Leipzig. In 1763 he took over the office of council builder. From 1750 until his death he was also head of the St. Georgen breeding and orphanage at Brühl .

Richter married the widow of his former business partner and brother-in-law Christiana Regina Neuhauß , née Hetzer (1724–1780) , in his second marriage . She owned two neighboring farms in the village of Gohlis . On this site was a judge in the years 1755-1756, a country house for the summer residence built, the Gohlis Palace . Because of the contributions in the Seven Years' War , which he, as one of the wealthiest citizens of Leipzig, had to bear in particular, the interior work on the palace was delayed, so that he died before it was completed. Richter also lived in a stately house on the Thomaskirchhof and therefore lived in the immediate vicinity of the Bose merchant family and Johann Sebastian Bach . There he owned an extensive collection of around 400 paintings, drawings and etchings by Titian , Raffael , Lucas van Leyden and Rubens .

Honor

Leipzig honored Johann Caspar Richter by naming Richterstrasse in the Gohlis district in 1896.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b André Loh-Kliesch, Leipzig Lexicon
  2. ^ Herbert Helbig, Die Vertrauten 1680-1980. An association of Leipzig merchants: Contributions to social welfare and the common sense of a business community , publisher: A. Hiersemann, Stuttgart (1980)
  3. ↑ Leipzig City Archives (ed.): LEXIKON Leipziger Straßeennamen . Leipzig: Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum, 1995. p. 178
personal data
SURNAME Richter, Johann Caspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman, councilor and council builder
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1708
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 1770
Place of death Leipzig