Johann Kraft Hiegell

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Johann Kraft Hiegell or Hiegel (born March 10, 1658 in Mainz , † December 9, 1736 in Koblenz ) was a German university professor , doctor , archaeologist, collector and author .

Life

Autograph by Johann Kraft Hiegell, 1712

On March 10, 1658 , Hiegell, from a family in Oppenheim , was baptized in Mainz. After obtaining the Baccalaureus degree from the University of Mainz , he studied in Oxford and Heidelberg, among others. In 1685 he became a doctor of medicine, in 1686 a member of the Mainz medical faculty, in which he received an unpaid professorship in 1699.

In 1701 he turned his back on the University of Mainz and went to Koblenz, where he worked as an Kurtrier personal doctor and pharmacy auditor.

Hiegell had been a member of the Leopoldina since October 23, 1698 . His academic nickname was Gesius I.

His wife was Maria Katharina Menshengen.

Collector

Hiegell's varied private collection (which he called the 'Museum') comprised an estimated 10,000 objects and was only partially documented in a small printed catalog in 1714 ( Museaeum Hiegellianum ). The collection was supplemented by a specialist library of more than 1000 titles.

His collection included works of fine art (including 19 volumes with portraits), ethnographica (objects from exotic countries), mathematical and physical instruments, naturalia (minerals, rocks including fossils, plants and animals) as well as archaeological finds, mostly from Roman graves of the Mainz area. In contrast, Hiegell acquired over 1,000 Roman coins in the trade. As early as 1698, Hiegell published a brochure about Roman finds in Mainz . A pamphlet on Roman grave finds in the Kobern vineyards was printed in 1722, but not delivered. It was published in 1750 by Professor Salentin Ernst Eugen Cohausen from Trier .

Most of the collections housed in his house in Koblenz, which he also showed interested parties, sold to Gottfried Bessel , Abbot of Göttweig Abbey . Pieces from the Hiegells collection have not yet been identified in the collections there. However, there is an engraved sheet of homage by Hiegell to his employer, Archbishop of Trier, Johann VIII. Hugo von Orsbeck, on the occasion of his 75th birthday in 1708.

In his will, the apparently childless Hiegell bequeathed all of his fortune and with it the rest of the collection to the "shameful" poor of the city of Koblenz. Cohausen acquired Hiegell's books at the estate auction, while the handwritten estate was burned by the estate administrator. However, the Mainz City Library is keeping a manuscript of Hiegell Locorum communium medico-physicorum liber I.II. inceptus Moguntiae mense Julio a. 1684 (signature: Hs I 517 a and b).

Works

  • Collectaneorum naturae, artis & antiquitatis specimen primum antiquitatis, sive urnae sepulchralis, nuper extra urbem Moguntinam erutae descriptio . Mainz 1697 ( online ), reprinted by Johann Peter Schunk 1789 ( online )
  • Museaeum Hiegellianum . Koblenz 1714 ( online )
  • Bibliotheca Specialis, quam ad Musei sui natura, artis & antiquitatis collectanea elucidanda Sibi & Amicis comparatam Confluentiae asservat Joannes Crafto Hiegell . Without place 1726 ( online )
  • This makes it known to the public that in a cabinet left by the Medicinae Doctor who died at Coblentz, Joanne Crafftone Hiegel ... the following antiques and rarities [...] are to be left to the highest bidder in the city of Coblentz . Without location [Koblenz], without year (not before 1736) (according to the Karlsruhe virtual catalog only in Senden, Nünning private library, online )
  • Texts in Epistola XIV by Commercii Litterarii Dissertationes Epistolicae Historico-Physico-Curiosae ... Jodoci Hermanni Nunni. Quibus Duas Epistolas, Priorem Epicriticam Et De Talismate Treverico, Alteram De Urnis Sepulchralibus Coberinis Adiecit Salent. Ernest. Eugene. Cohausen . Frankfurt am Main 1750, pp. 269–299 ( online )

literature

  • Carl Schunk: Johann Craffto Hiegell, Professor of Medicine and Archeology . In: Yearbook of the Association "Friends of the University of Mainz" 1955, pp. 37–45 (without individual references)
  • Wolfhart Langer: The catalog of the former museum of Johann Crafto Hiegell in Koblenz (1714) . In: Kurtrierisches Jahrbuch 49 (2009), pp. 269–285

Web links

Commons : Johann Kraft Hiegell  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ JDF Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 202 digitized
  2. ^ So Stramberg.
  3. ↑ http://pl01.donau-uni.ac.at/gssg/displayDocument.do?objId=Mb_017 with illustration.
  4. ^ Cohausen in the aforementioned Epistola XIV, pp. 265f.
personal data
SURNAME Hiegell, Johann Kraft
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hiegell, Johann Crato
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor, doctor, archaeologist, collector and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1658
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1736
Place of death Koblenz