Johann Peter Boßler

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Johann Peter Boßler also known as Bossler and Bosler (* erroneously 1687 eigtl. 1689 in Lichtenberg ; † 1742 in Darmstadt ) was a master gunsmith and a German artisan and weapons manufacturer . He was in the service of the landgrave as a royal court gunsmith in Hesse and Darmstadt .

Origin and life

genealogy

Descendant table of the gunsmith Boßler of the Lichtenberg tribe based on Christmann Boßler

Johann Peter Boßler learned his trade as a journeyman in the Thuringian towns of Zella and Suhl, the so-called armory of Europe. For a long time it was assumed in the arms industry that Johann Peter Boßler must also have been born in Zella.

Thorough genealogical research and the observance of already written regional works showed that the court gunsmith Johann Peter Boßler was born in Lichtenberg, a place in what is now the district of Darmstadt-Dieburg . He was the last born son of the gunsmith, Constabel and Burgrave zu Lichtenberg Christmann Boßler (* around 1643 - † 1690) and his second wife Anna Eleonora Beilstein (* 1658 - † 1732). He comes from the Lichtenberg tribe of the Boßler family in southern Hesse .

Johann Peter Boßler's father, the Lichtenberg burgrave Christian (or Christmann ) Boßler is documented as a gunsmith and gunsmith.

His half-brothers and nephews are also documented as gunsmiths. In addition, they worked as princely inspectors of the Lichtenberg winery in the state service of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt and as princely burgraves of Lichtenberg they were members of the landgrave's court administration .

Johann Peter's grandfather Martin Boßler (* 1616; † 1694) is documented for the year 1669 in old pattern lists of the Zent Ober-Ramstadt next to the originally correct name form Boßler in the spelling Bosler .

The master gunsmith Andreas Boßler from Umstadt , son of the gunsmith Johann Andreas Boßler from his marriage to the Umstadt native Maria Juliana Schwartzenberg in 1700 in Groß-Bieberau , is mentioned in a document on May 2, 1771 in the council minutes of the town of Umstadt as the gunsmith Andreas Bosler . The document describes a difference of opinion with a trader of Jewish origin. The master gunsmith Andreas Boßler was a nephew of the court gunsmith Johann Peter Boßler. Like other members of the Boßler family, he was named in a document using the Bosler spelling .

Act

In 1710 Bosler returned to the Landgraviate and in 1718 submitted his masterpieces to the locksmiths' guild in Darmstadt . He later became the founder of the gunsmiths' guild in Darmstadt. He married Maria Dorothea there, Boßler, with whom he had two daughters and his son and later court wind gun maker Friedrich Jacob Boßler (* 1717 - † 1793), whose weapons were sold as far as London and those at the court of the landgrave were high Enjoyed reputation.

Landgrave Ernst Ludwig appointed Johann Peter Bossler to be his court gunsmith as early as 1715 . A rifle made and signed by him is now on display in the Kranichstein hunting lodge . Johann Peter Boßler was a not insignificant factor in the economic development of the former residence city of Darmstadt.

The most famous apprentice of the court rifle maker Boßler was Johann Christian Breithaupt , who in 1762 became the founder of the family-run company FW Breithaupt & Sohn .

Descendants and kinship

In the baptism entry of his daughter Catharina Elisabetha from May 20, 1715 in the Lutheran church book of Darmstadt, Johann Peter Boßler is already identified as a court gunsmith

Johann Peter Bossler was the grandfather of the important music publisher Heinrich Philipp Boßler, also known as Bossler (* 1744, † 1812). The talent of his well-known grandson in the field of craftsmanship, which he demonstrated as a princely copperplate engraver and coin engraver , is said to go back to Johann Peter Boßler.

Through his sister Anna Barbara Klinger, geb. Boßler, (* 1674; † 1747) was her grandson Friedrich Maximilian Klinger (* 1752; † 1831) a second nephew to Johann Peter Boßler.

literature

  • Hans Schneider : The music publisher Heinrich Philipp Bossler 1744-1812. With bibliographic overviews and an appendix by Mariane Kirchgeßner and Boßler. Self-published by Schneider, Tutzing 1985, ISBN 3-7952-0500-X , pp. 15, 22.
  • Christie's : FINE ANTIQUE FIREARMS FROM THE W. KEITH NEAL COLLECTION. London November 9, 2000, ( OCLC 1031227412 ), p. 160.
  • Wolfgang Weitz: Bosler. Gunsmith and copper engraver in Darmstadt , Nidda 2001, ( OCLC 634901431 ).
  • Alexa-Beatrice Christ: Bossler, Johann Peter . In: Stadtlexikon Darmstadt , Konrad Theiss Verlag , Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-8062-1930-3 ( digitized ).
  • Marcel Bossler: A little writing illuminating the genealogy and ancestry of the court rifle maker in Darmstadt Johann Peter Boßler (Bosler) . Volume I. - History of the Hessian Boßler family, Bad Rappenau 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063737-7 . ( Family table included on p. 16.)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerd Manig, Dieter Schellenberger: 475 years of Suhl . Sutton Verlag , Erfurt 2002, ISBN 3-89702-371-7 , p. 10 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Marcel Bossler: A small text on the genealogy and ancestry of the court rifle maker in Darmstadt Johann Peter Boßler (Bosler) illuminating as well as the history, meaning and origin of the early Boßler family via the Lichtenberg office to Darmstadt and Neckarsteinach . Ed .: Marcel Bossler. Volume I. - History of the Hessian Boßler family. Self-published by M. Bossler, Bad Rappenau 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063737-7 , p. 14-16, 20 .
  3. ↑ Prof. Dr. Diethard Köhler : Families in Billings, Nonrod, Meßbach, Steinau, Hausen, Lichtenberg 1635–1750 . Volume III: Address book front Odenwald 1635–1750. Ober-Ramstadt 1987, OCLC 74995810 , Hausen and Lichtenberg: Families before 1700 .
  4. ^ Karl Eidenmüller: Family book Wersau / Odenwald with Bierbach 1640-1807 . Ed .: Hessische Familiengeschichtliche Vereinigung e. V. Band 79 - Research on Hessian family and local history, No. 10 . Darmstadt 1992, OCLC 165380088 , p. 66 .
  5. ↑ a b Johannes Feick: Lichtenberg in the Odenwald in the past and present - described according to the sources . tape 2 . Commission publisher Ludwig Saeng, Darmstadt 1903, OCLC 179967333 , p. 106 .
  6. ^ Ulrich Kirschnick: The population of the district of Ober Ramstadt-Lichtenberg from 1659 to 1695 . Ed .: Hessische Familiengeschichtliche Vereinigung e. V. Band 75 - Research on Hessian family and local history, No. 8 . Darmstadt 1991, OCLC 31205965 , p. 38, 68, 69 .
  7. ↑ Prof. Dr. Diethard Köhler: Families in Billings, Nonrod, Meßbach, Steinau, Hausen, Lichtenberg 1635–1750 . Volume III: Address book front Odenwald 1635–1750. Ober-Ramstadt 1987, OCLC 74995810 , Hausen and Lichtenberg: Families 1700–1750 .
  8. ↑ Lutheran Church Book Groß-Umstadt - No. 3, Births and Marriages (1666–1739), Central Archives of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau , Darmstadt.
  9. ↑ Georg Brenner and Wilfried Köbler: They were Umstädter - History of the Jewish population in Umstadt, Raibach, Klein-Umstadt, Kleestadt and Semd . Ed .: Stad Groß-Umstadt. Verlag der Stadt Groß-Umstadt, Groß-Umstadt 2010, DNB  1009058770 , Part II - You were Umstädter , p. 100 .
  10. ^ A b Hans Schneider: The music publisher Heinrich Philipp Bossler 1744–1812. With bibliographic overviews and an appendix by Mariane Kirchgeßner and Boßler. Self-published by Hans Schneider, Tutzing 1985, ISBN 3-7952-0500-X , p. 15 .
  11. ↑ a b Dr. Rainer Maaß: Handbook of cultural centers of the early modern times - cities and residences in the old German-speaking area . Ed .: Wolfgang Adam and Siegrid Westphal . tape 1 - Augsburg – Gottorf. de Gruyter , Berlin / Boston 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-020703-3 , p. 341 ( digitized version ).
  12. ↑ Magistrate of the City of Darmstadt (ed.): Darmstadt in the time of the Baroque and Rococo . tape 1 catalog book for the exhibition in Darmstadt Mathildenhöhe from September 6 to November 9, 1980. Darmstadt 1980, OCLC 10857248 , p. 110 .
  13. ↑ Hans Schneider: The music publisher Heinrich Philipp Bossler 1744-1812. With bibliographic overviews and an appendix by Mariane Kirchgeßner and Boßler. Self-published by Hans Schneider, Tutzing 1985, ISBN 3-7952-0500-X , p. 22 .
  14. ↑ Marcel Boßler: The famous Sturm und Drang poet Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger from Frankfurt with clear Odenwald roots . In: Hessian Family History Association e. V. (Hrsg.): Hessische Genealogie . Volume 3, Issue 2, 2020, ISSN  2626-0220 , p. 28 .
personal data
SURNAME Boßler, Johann Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bossler, Johann Peter; Bosler, Johann Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German arms manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH 1689
PLACE OF BIRTH Lichtenberg
DATE OF DEATH 1742
Place of death Darmstadt