Johann Jacob Volkmann

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Johann Jacob Volkmann

Johann Jacob Volkmann , Volckmann wrote himself for a long time , (born March 17, 1732 in Hamburg , †  July 21, 1803 in Zschortau ) was a German writer .

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Johann Jacob Volkmann attended the Academic Gymnasium, studied law and mathematics as well as the older and newer languages in Göttingen , then went to Orleans, where he received his doctorate on August 10, 1759. After traveling for years through almost all of Europe and visiting Italy , France and England in particular , as well as Spain and the Netherlands , he settled permanently in Leipzig . Here he wrote his numerous writings, mainly artistic, topographical and economic content, which comprised a total of 98 volumes. His historical-critical news from Italy (3 vol., Leipzig 1770/71) saw a second edition in 1777/78. Besides Goethe, Lessing and others also traveled with them. They can also be found among the reading carefully selected for the youthful Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia.

Life

Johann Jacob married on May 21, 1765 with Eleonore Henriette Welck, the "beautiful Lorchen", née. on November 6, 1746 in Leipzig as the daughter of the Hofrat and Oberpostamtdirektor Wolfgang Georg Welck. Before the parents gave their consent to their daughter's marriage, they demanded that Johann Jacob settle in Saxony. In 1764 he acquired the two manors Zschortau (Obernteils) and Biesen in the Delitzsch district. In Zschortau he had the manor house, which was apparently destroyed in the Seven Years' War , rebuilt.

In the park, not far from the entrance gate, there is still a tall, cylindrical memorial stone from Johann Jacob's time, decorated on the front with a wreath of leaves that opens downwards, inside the date of the wedding of Johann Jacob's daughter Johanna Charlotta to the later Magdeburg District President Wilhelm von Vangerow says: May 31, 1791. And around the crowning edge of the upper part the words are carved: “United by virtue, wisdom and love”. The Volkmannche family coat of arms with the year 1765, which was previously attached to the patronage box, was still kept in the village church in 1986 .

After the death of his first wife in 1793, Johann Jacob Volkmann remarried the following year, with Luise Charlotte Lange from Spremberg, a close friend of his late first wife. He himself died on July 21, 1803. A legacy he bequeathed to the town of Zschortau has existed for a long time as the “Volkmann Foundation”.

His surviving children were Johann Wilhelm Volkmann, doctor of both rights and member of the council of Leipzig (born February 10, 1772 in Zschortau) and the above-mentioned daughter Johanna Charlotta von Vangerow in Magdeburg.

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SURNAME Volkmann, Johann Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1732
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 1803
Place of death Zschortau