Johann Peter Eichhoff

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Johann Peter Eichhoff (born October 1, 1755 in Bonn , † February 24, 1825 in Rheydt ) was an enlightening publicist, historian of the Rhineland and civil servant in the French service.

Life

Johann Peter Eichhoff was the son of the mouth cook August Eichhoff at the cologne court and his wife Maria , a former maid. His brother was the Bonn mayor and economist Johann Joseph Eichhoff , his brother-in-law and later collaborator was the doctor and author Bernhard Constantin von Schoenebeck .

After an unspecified training, Eichhoff is considered to be one of the most important scouts in the Lower Rhine area . Financed by Adolf von Hüpsch , he published several magazines in Cologne . Among them were the "Kölner literäre Wochenblatt" and the "Kölnische enzyclopädische journal", which were soon discontinued due to conflicts between Eichhoff and Hüpsch. In addition, the demand for these fonts was too low. This was repeated in the "Bönnische Litteratur- und Kunstzeitung" founded by Eichhoff in 1780.

Eichhoff was a leading member of the Bonn Illuminati group , which called itself Minervalkirche Stagira . He was named "Hephaestion". Both brothers were friends of Ludwig van Beethoven . After the order was banned, he was heavily involved in the reading society that was still founded during the order's time. In the 1780s, Eichhoff was the focus of the educated classes of Bonn. He was appointed to the Bentheim Council in 1781 and was a representative in the Electoral Cologne state parliament. During this time he was privileged and supported by Elector Maximilian Franz , editor of the “Bönnischer Intellektivenblatt”. This appeared between 1785 and 1794.

Eichhoff also worked as a historian. He published documents and other sources on the history of Kurköln, the Lower Rhine-Westphalian Imperial Circle, and anonymously wrote the “Historical-Geographical Description of the Archbishopric of Cologne” (Frankfurt am Main, 1783).

After the French occupied the Rhineland, he was a republican member of the Bonn district administration, later canton administrator in Cologne, president of the municipality in Brauweiler and commissioner in Neuss . Then his tracks are lost. Possibly he was a tax collector in the Holzheim-Grefrath-Büttgen district around 1804.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Maynard Solomon , Beethoven, Freemasonry, and the Tagebuch of 1812–1818 , in: Beethoven Forum , Vol. 8, pp. 101–126, here p. 105 (digitized version )
  2. ^ Enlightenment press system: Periodical writings in the old empire P. 258f.
  3. ↑ Eichhoff uncovered Neuss tax fraud

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personal data
SURNAME Eichhoff, Johann Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Educator and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1755
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1825
Place of death Rheydt