Johann Heinrich Sulzer (politician)
Johann Heinrich Sulzer (born May 5, 1765 in Winterthur ; † March 25, 1823 there ) was a Swiss bookseller and politician .
life and work
Sulzer was the eldest son of the Winterthur town doctor and entomologist Hans Heinrich Sulzer zum Adler. His ancestors ran a textile industry in Aadorf in the 19th century .
From 1781 Sulzer completed a four-year bookseller apprenticeship in the "Buchhandlung Gräffer" in Vienna . His teacher Rudolf Graeffer was the uncle of Franz Graeffer . In Vienna he made friends with the painter Antonio Bencini (1710–1756) Josef Mathias Grassi and with the composer Joseph Sonnleithner . Sulzer also had contacts with poets, writers and graphic artists who stayed in Vienna.
His father campaigned for him in 1786, so that he received a permit from the Zurich city authorities to run a book printing company in Winterthur. However, this was denied him. Instead, he became a partner in the Steiner'schen Verlag bookshop in Winterthur. Sulzer was in correspondence with Ulrich Hegner , Johann Friedrich Cotta and Joahann Caspar Lavater .
Sulzer stayed in Lausanne in 1788 , where he met Anna Magdalena (1770–1809), née Ziegler zum Steinberg, whom he married in 1790. She was a concert singer and appeared in the Musikkollegium Winterthur . This was headed by Samuel Gottlob Auberlen . As an amateur, Sulzer played in the orchestra and was President of the Music College from 1809 to 1819. Carl Maria von Weber performed there in 1811.
When his wife died in 1809, Sulzer married Susanne Wilhelmine, née Sulzer, in 1811.
As a politician, Sulzer was a member of the City Council of Winterthur and a substitute at the cantonal court. In 1802 he was a member of the provisional cantonal government and from 1803 to 1832 a member of the Grand Council. From 1803 to 1814 he was a member of the Winterthur District Court and from 1814 to 1819 a member of the Winterthur District Court.
Sulzer was a member of the Helvetic Society and from 1785 a Freemason . Sulzer's daughter Friedericke married Jonas Furrer . His cousin was Friedrich von Sulzer-Wart (1806–1857).
literature
- Peter Sulzer: A Winterthur in the Josephine city of Vienna: Johann Heinrich Sulzer's family book "zur Goldenen Traube" . In: Librarium: Journal of the Swiss Bibliophile Society, Vol. 24, 1980, pp. 107-131. ( Digitized version )
Web links
- Meinrad Suter : Sulzer, Johann Heinrich . In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland
Individual evidence
- ^ From Sulzer-Wart, Friedrich. Historical encyclopedia of Switzerland, accessed on July 2, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sulzer, Johann Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss bookseller and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1765 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Winterthur |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 25, 1823 |
| Place of death | Winterthur |