Johann Jakob Peter Fuchs
Johann Jakob Peter Fuchs (born March 9, 1782 in Cologne ; † February 12, 1857 there ) was a Cologne administrative officer and later city archivist.
Fuchs succeeded his father, the temporary lay judge, Electoral Cologne court councilor and Prussian government councilor Johann Baptist Fuchs (1757-1827), administrative officer in Cologne during the French period and at the beginning of the Prussian administration. Fuchs was Dr. jur. utr., i.e. Dr. civil and ecclesiastical law. During this time he made a name for himself for the first emerging city museum Wallrafianum in Trankgasse 7 and the city's historical archive, which is also to be restructured . In 1837 he married at the advanced age of 55. His wife Maria Theresia Josepha Walburga Fuchs b. Plasmann (1790–1866) came from a respected Cologne merchant family.
Fuchs was initially secretary at the French Tribunal of First Instance in the Cologne Court at Trankgasse 7, which succeeded the Breeding Police Court established there in 1798 . With the end of the French occupation in 1815 it became a royal district court, and later a regional court. After a new building for the court, the city was able to take over the old building in 1827 and use it for Wallraf's collections. Today the Deichmannhaus stands at this point .
Fuchs was a student and friend of Ferdinand Franz Wallraf , he served as one of the executors after his death in March 1824th Together with a commission set up by the council, which was joined by several art lovers , he tried to organize and inventory the Wallraf art and antiquity collection bequeathed to the city in the latter's last apartment, "Am Hof 1". This inventory could only be completed two years later, on April 10, 1826. In 1827 the collection moved to Trankgasse. The first curator was the Cologne art collector Matthias Joseph de Noël in 1828 .
As a confidante of Lord Mayor Johann Adolph Steinberger , Fuchs was appointed city secretary. From 1815 until his death, Fuchs was in charge of the Cologne City Archives. During this time he rearranged it and made sure that it was made accessible to scientific research. Basis of merit awarded him the University of Bonn , the honorary doctorate .
Fuchs died in 1857 at the age of 74 and was buried in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (HWG, between lit. A + B). The tombstone bears the wrong year of death.
In 1938, Fuchsstrasse was named after him in Cologne-Ehrenfeld .
Literature / sources
- Hermann Keussen: Fuchs, Johann Peter . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 49, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, p. 208 f.
- The first Cologne city guide from 1828 , edited and commented by Uwe Westfehling, Cologne, Bachem, 1982, ISBN 3-7616-0615-X
- Carl Dietmar: Die Chronik Kölns , Chronik Verlag, Dortmund 1991, ISBN 3-611-00193-7
Remarks
- ↑ Schleicher, Totenzettel, vol. II. P. 58 u. 60 and Vogts, Melaten, No. 69.
- ↑ Death certificate no. 358 dated February 13, 1857, Cologne registry office. In: LAV NRW R civil register. Retrieved December 19, 2018 .
- ↑ marriage certificate no. 264 of 23 May 1837 the civil registry Cologne. In: LAV NRW R civil register. Retrieved December 19, 2018 .
- ^ The first Cologne city guide from 1828, page 167 ff
- ^ The Chronicle of Cologne, page 252
- ^ Rüdiger Schünemann-Steffen: Cologne Street Name Lexicon , District 4 , Jörg-Rüshü-Selbstverlag, Cologne 2018, p. 28.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fuchs, Johann Jakob Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Administrative officer in Cologne during the French period and at the beginning of the Prussian administration |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 9, 1782 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 12, 1857 |
| Place of death | Cologne |