Johann Gerhard Fürstenau

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Johann Gerhard Fürstenau (* 1686 in Osnabrück ; † June 15, 1764 in Lübeck ) was a German merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Johann Gerhard Fürstenau was a son of the Osnabrück councilor Bernhard Fürstenau. In 1701 he was sent to his older brother in Lübeck to do a commercial apprenticeship. In 1711 he worked in Hamburg and in the following year in Riga and Reval . In 1716 he started his own business in Lübeck as a businessman. After a few years of voluntary work, he was elected to the Lübeck Council as a member of the Schonenfahrer in 1749. During his time as head of the Marienkirche in Lübeck , the astronomical clock was repaired a third time.

literature

  • Memoria Vitae Viri Nobilissimi Prudentissimi Atque Amplissimi Johannis Gerhardi Fuerstnau Reipublicae Lubecensis Senatoris Et Camerarii Secundi Praeclare Meriti Literis Consignata , 1764 (funeral writing)
  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line , Lübeck 1925, No. 888

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quotation of the inscription that has not survived in Neues geographisches Magazin , Volume 2, Verlag des Waisenhauses, 1786
personal data
SURNAME Fürstenau, Johann Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH 1686
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1764
Place of death Lübeck