Johann Jacob Heidegger

John Faber : John James Heidegger . Portrait (after Jean-Baptiste van Loo )

Heidegger in the background, with Francesca Cuzzoni and Farinelli , approx. 1729. By Joseph Goupy, after Marco Ricci

John James Heidegger , actually Johann Jacob Heidegger (born June 16, 1659 in Zurich , † September 7, 1749 in Richmond upon Thames ) was an impresario in London .

Life

Heidegger was a son of the theologian Johann Heinrich Heidegger . He went to England around 1708 and appeared as assistant director of the Queen's Theater in 1710 , where he held scandalous masked balls . From 1713 to 1738 he was commercial director of the now renamed King's Theater, from 1719 to 1728 director of the Royal Academy of Music , the opera company for which George Frideric Handel , Giovanni Battista Bononcini and Attilio Ariosti composed.

In 1738, Heidegger withdrew from the capital London to the nearby town of Richmond upon Thames until his death in 1749 , where in 1910 a “room decorated with all sorts of Swiss landscapes” reminded of Heidegger in a house on Maids of Honor Row .

In Shepherd's Bush , Richmond upon Thames, today Greater London , the “Heidegger Crescent” street is named after the famous resident of the past.

literature

Theodor Vetter (1853-1922): Johann Jakob Heidegger, an employee of GF Handel (Neujahrsblatt edited by the Zurich City Library, No. 258)
Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1891). "Heidegger, John James". Dictionary of National Biography. 25. London: Smith, Elder & Co. (in English)
Swiss gender book. 4th year (1913). Lendorff, Basel 1913, pp. 252–259, here: 256f.
Jean-Louis Clerc: L'Enchanteur Carabosse , Lausanne 1942.

Web links

Commons : John James Heidegger - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Swiss Gender Book. Volume 4 (1913), p. 257.
↑ See "British Streets". ( Memento of the original from March 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

personal data
SURNAME	Heidegger, Johann Jacob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Heidegger, John James; Heidegger, Hans Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss impresario
DATE OF BIRTH	June 16, 1659
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zurich
DATE OF DEATH	September 7, 1749
Place of death	Richmond upon Thames

[1] Swiss Gender Book. Volume 4 (1913), p. 257.

[2] See "British Streets". ( Memento of the original from March 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2