Johann Daniel von Olenschlager

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Johann Daniel von Olenschlager around 1760

Johann Daniel Olenschlager (from 1747 von Olenschlager ) (born November 18, 1711 in Frankfurt am Main ; † February 28, 1778 ibid) was a Frankfurt patrician and politician.

Life

Origin and family

The progenitor was Johannes Olenschlager (1520–1574), born in Frankfurt, a fisherman in Sachsenhausen , and in 1573 the nurse of the Hospital of the Holy Spirit . The family name is derived from the oil mill in Ölmühlgässchen on Dreikönigstrasse, which has existed since around 1330, not far from the Fischerstube.

Olenschlager the son of was merchants Johann Nikolaus Olenschlager (1656-1718) and his wife Maria Barbara Franck, daughter of from Strasbourg coming banker Johann Daniel Franck.

In 1740 he met Susanne von Klettenberg (1723–1774), who would later become canonical lady , with whom he became engaged in 1742. She was the eldest daughter of the doctor and Frankfurt councilor, temporarily mayor, Remigius Seyfart von Klettenberg (1693–1766), and was related to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . The engagement was broken off in 1748. In the same year he married Sara Orth (1723–1787), the daughter of the lawyer Johann Philipp Orth and maternal granddaughter of the Frankfurt councilor and mayor of the same name, Johann Philipp Orth (on his father's side he was her great-uncle). With her he had two sons, including Johann Nicolaus Olenschlager (1751-1820) and two daughters.

Training and work

From August 13, 1727 he studied law at the University of Marburg , from June 15, 1729 at the University of Leipzig and from January 10, 1736 at the University of Strasbourg . In between he traveled to Italy, France and Germany. In 1736 he obtained his degree in law in Strasbourg and then became a lawyer in Frankfurt am Main.

In 1748 he became councilor (senator), in 1761 junior mayor and in 1761 aldermen. In 1771 he was elected to the office of senior mayor . He was also a Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Councilor .

In his house, Olenschlager set up a lovers' theater for his children and those of his friends. He became friends with François de Théas Count von Thoranc , who was quartered in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's parents' house. Goethe describes Olenschlager in his poetry and truth , and explains that in his youth he enjoyed having conversations with him, whom he calls his “patron”.

Nobility

On September 6, 1747, like his brother Johann Nikolaus (1713–1763), Wechsler zu Frankfurt, as early as 1742, he received an improvement in the coat of arms and the nobility title “von”, with the privilege of naming himself after goods owned by him . In 1771 he was accepted into the Zum Frauenstein Society .

Works

  • New explanation of the guilder bull by Kayser Carl IV., 1766

See also

literature

  • Barbara Dölemeyer: Frankfurt Jurists in the 17th and 18th Centuries, 1993, ISBN 3465025830 , p. 143.

Individual evidence

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  4. ↑ Goethe as a chemist, p. 354
  5. ↑ a b Free Deutsches Hochstift p. 198
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  7. ↑ a b [5]
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personal data
SURNAME Olenschlager, Johann Daniel von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Frankfurt patrician and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1711
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1778
Place of death Frankfurt am Main