Johann Conrad Honnerlag

Johann Conrad Honnerlag (born May 29, 1777 in Lyon ; † May 14, 1838 in Trogen ; resident in Trogen) was a Swiss merchant and art collector from the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden .

Life

Johann Conrad Honnerlag was a son of Johann Conrad Honnerlag, branch manager of the trading company Gebrüder Zellweger in Lyon, and Anna Zellweger. He was a nephew of Bartholome Honnerlag and Johann Georg Honnerlag . He completed a commercial apprenticeship with his uncle Johann Georg Honnerlag in Genoa . In 1803 he returned to Trogen and founded the trading company Honnerlag & Compagnie.

He soon gave up his business and turned to literature and art . He built up an important library and art collection . Honnerlag expanded the magnificent park at the residential palace in the Niedern in Trogen. He was the client of the draftsman Johann Ulrich Fitzi , who made pen drawings for all Appenzell Ausserrhoden townscapes between 1821 and 1822 .

Honnerlag and his cousin Johann Caspar Zellweger were co-founders of the Trogen Cantonal School and the Cantonal Library . From 1806 to 1830 he was a member of the Trogner municipal council . From 1811 to 1817 he was a cantonal examiner. In 1832 he was a member of the Audit Council. In 1817 he held the military rank of lieutenant colonel .

Works

• Johann Conrad Honnerlag's travel diary in the Appenzell Ausserrhoden canton library

literature

• Eugen Steinmann: The art monuments of the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Volume 2: The district of Mittelland. Birkhäuser, Basel 1980, ISBN 3-7643-1174-6 , pp. 153-159. (= The Art Monuments of Switzerland, Volume 97.)
• Peter Holderegger: Entrepreneurs in Appenzellerland: History of industrial entrepreneurship in Appenzell Ausserrhoden from the beginning to the present. Schläpfer, Herisau 1992, p. 85.
• Mathias Weishaupt: The «Decription de l`Égypte» in the library of Trogen. In: Appenzellian yearbooks. Volume 130/2002 (2003), pp. 14-27. Digitized
• Brigitt Sigel: Freedom is on the mountains! In: Brigitt Sigel, Heinz Dieter Finck: Use and ornament: Fifty historical gardens in Switzerland. Scheidegger and Spiess, Zurich 2006, pp. 194–199.

Web links

• Thomas Fuchs: Johann Conrad Honnerlag. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . September 20, 2019 , accessed June 30, 2020 .

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