Johann Conrad Wilhelmi
Johann Conrad Wilhelmi (also: Johann Conrad Wilhelmi II ; * around 1738 in the Calenberger Neustadt near Hanover ; † July 2, 1804 there ) was a German goldsmith and Royal British and Electoral Brunswick-Lüneburgischer Hof - jeweler .
Life
Johann Conrad Wilhelmi was born at the time of the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover around 1738 in Langestrasse Hanover in the Calenberger Neustadt as the eldest son of the jeweler Caspar Heinrich Wilhelmi who worked there . He first worked for ten years with his father, before he was resident in the United Kingdom on September 22, 1769 by George III. was awarded the patent as court jeweler.
In 1765 Wilhelmi was the first to successfully imitate in Hanover the " Galanterie hair in hair " invented in England and perfected in France .
End of February 1778 offered Wilhelmi - still live and work "on the long road" - about the Hanoverian displays a silver " Communionkelch along with Oblates box and plate, both verguldet in a verfertigten to leather-covered case, even a white damask silver with Lace- trimmed ceiling ”.
In 1780 Wilhelmi was ordered to either win the position of head of the goldsmith's office or else to give up his profession. Around the same time, Wilhelmi owned his own house on Burgstrasse .
Wilhelmi was also socially involved in urban society. At the end of the 18th century he was one of the poor fathers in the Leinstraße district in Hanover's old town.
Wilhelmi was married. The also married “Gesell Fasser” worked for him for around three decades. Johann Conrad Wilhelmi died in 1804 at the age of 66.
Seat and progress of the trade through the brother
Johann Conrad Wilhelmi had a younger brother previously unknown first name, who was also known with the family name Wilhelmy (* around 1750; † before 1817) and was also a jeweler, possibly only as a journeyman at times.
While the Hanover address book for 1801 only named a "Wilhelmi" and no first name, the jeweler in Burgstrasse in the old town, the address book for 1817 still only named a Wilhelmi, also without a first name, the "court jeweler" in house 1038 in Burgstrasse .
The journeyman Christian Döhring from Braunschweig , son of Johann August Döhring, died at Wilhelmy's widow on September 1, 1817 at the age of 47 . Döhring had learned from 1785 to 1791 both from his father in Braunschweig and from Johann Zacharias Zuckschwerdt .
Carl Hoffmann , who became a master craftsman in 1818, also worked for Wilhelmy for two years .
Famous works
Archival material
Archival materials by and about Johann Conrad Wilhelmi can be found, for example
- under the title “Wilhelmische Erbschaft” by Eleonore Wilhelmi, the unmarried aunt of the horticultural master Heinrich Ludolph Wendland , who was allegedly a sister of the stepmother and daughter of the court jeweler Johann Conrad Wilhelmi; Files of inheritance / estate matters 1844-1861 in the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library ; Digitized version of the manuscript
- Johann Conrad Wilhelmi was the subject of three handwritten letters to August Wilhelm Schlegel in the second half of 1795 ; two of them by Johann Carl Fürchtegott Schlegel , one by Julie Schlegel; Digital copies
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Wolfgang Scheffler : Johann Conrad Wilhelmi II and Wilhelmy , in ders .: Goldsmiths of Lower Saxony, data, works, characters , Volume 1, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1965, p. 766f; limited preview in Google Book search
- ↑ Rudolph Ludwig Hoppe : History of the City of Hanover ... With two views and a floor plan . Hellwingschen Hofbuchhandlung publishing house, Hanover 1845, p. 233; Digitized via Google books
- ↑ Things to be sold like that, in: Hanoverian advertisements of all kinds of things, the publication of which is necessary and useful to the common being. [Volume of the year] From the year 1778 , Hanover 1779, column 277ff .; Digitized via Google books
- ↑ Directory of the poor fathers of the old and new town Hanover, and the attached numbers of the districts , Neues Hannöverisches Magazin, in which small treatises, individual thoughts, news, suggestions and experiences, which the improvements of the food level, the rural and urban economy , Dealership, manufactories and arts that relate to physics, moral theory and pleasant sciences, are collected and stored , 8th year of the year 1798, Hanover: printed by GC Schlüter, Landschaftlicher Buchdrucker, 1799, column 1095-1096; Digitized via Google books
- ↑ Hanover's address book to the year 1801 , part of scholars, merchants, shopkeepers, artists, craftsmen [et] c. In alphabetical order , Hanover: published by Johann Thomas Lamminger, Hofbuchdrucker, [1800], p. 109; Digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library (GWLB) via the German Research Foundation (DFG)
- ↑ Hannöversches address book for the year 1817 , part of the alphabetical list of the local residents with comments on their business, the streets in which they live and the house number , p. 94; Digitization of the GWLB via the DFG
- ↑ Information about the Lower Saxony culture server
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wilhelmi, Johann Conrad |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wilhelmy, Conrad Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German goldsmith, Royal British and Electoral Braunschweig-Lüneburg court jeweler as well as head of office |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1738 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Calenberger Neustadt in front of Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 2, 1804 |
| Place of death | Calenberger Neustadt in front of Hanover |