Johann Gildemeister (Councilor)
Johann Mathias Gildemeister (born September 11, 1753 in Bremen ; † February 9, 1837 in Bremen) was a businessman and councilor and senator of the city of Bremen .
biography
Gildemeister was the son of a Bremen merchant. He attended high school in Bremen. He learned and worked a. a. then in Holland and England as a businessman. In 1776 he took over his late father's cloth goods store in Bremen.
He was also interested in technical and astronomical problems. In 1788 he was elected councilor ( named Senator from 1813 ) in Bremen. In the council was u. a. responsible for the tasks of dike and fire extinguishing and the history of coins.
Together with Mayor Christian Abraham Heineken, he carried out the trigonometric survey of Bremen. The engraver Georg Heinrich Tischbein engraved a map for this. He was also friends with the astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers .
literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
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| SURNAME | Gildemeister, Johann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gildemeister, Johann Mathias (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bremen councilor and businessman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 11, 1753 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 9, 1837 |
| Place of death | Bremen |