Johann Gottfried Erckel

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Johann Gottfried Erckel (~ March 19, 1767 in Leipzig ; † December 2, 1833 there ) was a Leipzig merchant , banker and master builder as well as councilor and governor of Leipzig.

Life

Johann Gottfried Erckel was born as the son of the wine merchant and citizen of Leipzig, Michael Sigmund Erckel (1725–1796) and his wife Johanna Elisabeth born. Lucas (1727–1806) born and baptized on March 19, 1767 in Leipzig. Erckel received - probably in recognition of his services as city governor of Leipzig - in 1790 a colored lithograph by the artist Christian Otto, which was specially dedicated to him. In 1807 Erckel was mentioned as a senator. In 1821 he was a builder and signature authorized representative of the Municipal Council of the City of Leipzig of bonds mentioned.

In his free time, Erckel acquired an extensive collection of plants that was recognized and respected in specialist circles. Because of this passion he was also a member of the " Natural Research Society of Leipzig ". In 1826, as a member of the Leipzig city council, Erckel was also head of the Johannis Hospital and during this time had the Johanniskirchhof in Leipzig expanded by over 42,500 squares in order to be able to fulfill the wish of many Leipzig families to erect hereditary burials. Erckel himself was buried in the family grave of the Erckel family established in 1827 in the old Johannisfriedhof , the oldest cemetery in the city of Leipzig, in the fifth department he had expanded.

Works

  • “To everyone cared for in the Johannis Hospital”, 1830

family

Johann Gottfried Erckel came from the widely ramified host and merchant family Erckel. His paternal grandfather was the landlord and wine tavern Zum Guldenen Adler in Wöhrd , later Zum Roten Ochsen in Nuremberg, Johann Sigmund Erckel (1690–1748). His maternal grandfather was the innkeeper Zur Güldenen Tanne and citizen of Leipzig, Gottfried Lucas (* 1687). The scholar Johann Sigismund Erckel (1756-1825) was his brother. His sister Caroline Rahel Erckel (1757–1821) married the Leipzig banker Johann Carl Schultze (1744–1815).

Johann Gottfried Erckel married Rahel Johanna born on August 14, 1791 in Wahren near Leipzig. Weber (~ July 22, 1770 in Leipzig; † September 26, 1844 there), daughter of the Actuarius at the law faculty in Leipzig, Christian Heinrich Gottlieb Weber and his wife Florentine Elisabeth born. Stirner. Erckel's wife was a sister of the scholar, canon lawyer and royal Saxon consistorial president Karl Gottlieb von Weber (1773-1849) and a cousin of Christian Gottfried Körner , the father of Theodor Körner and friend of Friedrich Schiller .

Her son Julius Erckel (born April 28, 1807 in Leipzig; † February 12, 1881 there) continued his father's business as a wine merchant under the name "Weinfirma Gebrüder Erckel", was a merchant, banker and owner of houses 4 and 14 am Leipziger Markt and in 1857 had a summer villa built in the Swiss architectural style, the so-called “Schweizerhaus”, on a vineyard in Loschwitz near Dresden - what was later known as the “Erckelschen Weinberg”.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sermons given by Heinrich Gottlieb Tzschirner, Doctor and Professor of Theology and Superintendent of Leipzig, from the manuscripts he left behind, online edition on Google Books , Leipzig 1828, first volume, p. XI
  2. ↑ Part in Reudnitz near Leipzig, Sr. Well Born of the City Governor and Senator Johann Gottfried Erckel Sincerely dedicated by Christian Otto on museum.zib.de
  3. ↑ Graciously privileged Leipzig intelligence sheet ... Online version on Google Books , Leipzig 1807, p. XI
  4. ^ State and learned newspaper of the Hamburg impartial correspondent, digitized on Google Books
  5. ↑ General Teutsches Garten-Magazin or non-profit contributions for all parts of practical gardening, online version on Google Books , Friedrich Justin Bertuch, Weimar 1809, 6th year, p. 61
  6. ^ Johann Gottfried Erckel in: Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Leipzig, Barth 1833 on Google Books, p. 3
  7. ↑ Heinrich Heinlein: The Leipzig Cemetery in its current form ... , Leipzig 1844, digitized on Google Books, p. 174
  8. ^ To everyone cared for in the Johannis Hospital on Google Books
  9. ↑ Obituary in the Leipziger Zeitung, June 6, 1825, digitized on Google Books, p. 1480
  10. ^ Julius Erckel in Stadtwiki Dresden
  11. ↑ New Leipzig address book 1851, p. 23, Gebr. Erckel, Wechsel- und Weinhandlung
  12. ^ New Leipzig address book 1851, p. 23, Julius Erckel, Krämer
  13. ↑ The "Erckelschen Weinberg" in Loschwitz is under construction again, Dietrich Buschbeck in: Der Elbhang-Kurier, September 1, 2011, online version

literature

  • Till von Egidy: The ancestors of the von Egidy and von Koppenfels families in: Studies on Culture and History - Volume 2, Verlag Zentrum für Kultur // Geschichte, Niederjahna 2016

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personal data
SURNAME Erckel, Johann Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Leipzig merchant, banker and master builder as well as councilor and city governor of Leipzig
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1767
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH December 2, 1833
Place of death Leipzig