Johann Friedrich Armand von Uffenbach

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Uffenbach in front of the Old Main Bridge

Johann Friedrich von Uffenbach , himself adopted "Armand" or "Hermann" as his third first name after 1720, (* May 6, 1687 in Frankfurt am Main ; † April 10, 1769 ibid) was senior mayor of the imperial city of Frankfurt , collector and patron .

Life

Johann Friedrich von Uffenbach came from a Frankfurt patrician family in the exchange company to Frauenstein was firmly rooted in society. His father was the Frankfurt merchant and councilor Johann Balthasar von Uffenbach († 1700), the mother was Anna Sybilla nee Meyer. Zacharias Konrad von Uffenbach was his older brother. Uffenbach studied at the University of Halle and then embarked on his two-year Grand Tour from 1709 , which initially took him together with his brother Zacharias Konrad through Northern Germany, the Netherlands and England, and later through France and Italy alone. His travel report of this last part of the Grand Tour with many drawings by his own hand and with copperplate engravings remained a manuscript . From 1712 to 1714 he completed his law studies at the University of Strasbourg . With the same interest in education as his older brother, Uffenbach developed a more practical interest. In 1725 he was the founder of the Society for the Care of Science and Art in Frankfurt , one of the early Enlightenment societies in Germany, which was initially only in a small circle of 6 founders all 14 Days met. Without having been a soldier, he became imperial captain and colonel in the artillery of the Electorate of Hanover (1737), an appreciation of the knowledge he had gained in fortress construction. Technically adept, he managed the new construction of the old bridge over the Main from 1741 . At the coronation of Emperor Charles VII in 1742, he planned and organized the magnificent fireworks .

Uffenbach was elected to the 51th college of the imperial city of Frankfurt on June 4, 1733, and was appointed councilor in Frankfurt in 1744 and as councilor as the younger mayor of Frankfurt in 1749 . In 1752 he became a lay judge and a real councilor . In 1762 Uffenbach was the senior mayor of Frankfurt. To distinguish it from the younger son of a cousin, who also had the name Johann Friedrich and died as a lay judge in Frankfurt in 1799, the older one had added the first name Armand or Hermann in later years , whereby Armand largely prevailed in historiography.

He died after two marriages with no descendants and bequeathed a large part of his extensive collections to the Georg-August University of Göttingen, which he supported as an enlightened new university, and its university library . The donation from 1736 was first announced in 1764. The drawings and engravings formed the basis for the art collection of the University of Göttingen . He was an honorary member of the German Society of Göttingen, founded in 1738, and a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences, founded in 1751, and in 1763 he also became a foreign member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences . The rest of his estate, art objects that were not the subject of the donation to Göttingen, was auctioned off in 1771 according to the catalog.

Fonts

  • The Strasbourg diary of Johann Friedrich von Uffenbach from Frankfurt (1712-1714) , (Ed. Ernst Polaczek), 1922
  • Diary of a walk through the Hessian in the Braunschweig-Lüneburg country. Max Arnim (Ed.), Göttingen 1928
  • The musical journeys of Herr von Uffenbach. From a travel diary of Johann Friedrich A. von Uffenbach ... 1712-1716, [with illustrations], (Ed. Eberhard Preussner), 1949
  • Poetic attempt in which the imitation of Christ is explained by Sion images , 1726 (digitized version )

literature

Web links

Commons : Johann Friedrich von Uffenbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Johann Friedrich Armand von Uffenbach  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Uffenbach on the website of the University of Göttingen.
  2. ^ University of Göttingen meeting reports of the Frankfurt Scientific Society. Volume 2. Frankfurt, 18. VII. 1727 - 30. VII. 1728. Signature: 2 ° Cod. Ms. Uff. 13: 2; Provenance: Johann Friedrich Armand von Uffenbach, 1769/70
  3. ↑ Uffenbach's estate directory (PDF; 5.3 MB) in the Göttingen SUB.
  4. ^ Göttingische advertisements , 32nd issue from March 15, 1764.
personal data
SURNAME Uffenbach, Johann Friedrich Armand von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Uffenbach, Johann Friedrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Senior mayor of the imperial city of Frankfurt, collector and patron
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1687
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1769
Place of death Frankfurt am Main