Johann Peter Willebrand
Johann Peter Willebrand , also Willebrandt (born September 10, 1719 in Rostock , † July 22, 1786 in Hamburg ) was a German lawyer and judge who was also known as a travel writer during his lifetime.
Life
Willebrand came from a Mecklenburg merchant family based in Rostock. He studied law at the University of Halle and was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD. After extensive travels through Europe, he became a lawyer in Lübeck and married there.
In Lübeck he began to deal with the history of the Hanseatic League and can therefore be regarded as one of the very early Hanseatic historians. Because of his sought relationship with the Danish Minister of State Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff , he was appointed by the Danish King to the judiciary and member of the Pinneberg and Altona Higher Appeal Courts and the Upper Consistory in Glückstadt . This obliged him to take up residence in Altona . As police director of Altona (1757–1767), he asked to leave because of friction with the city council and citizens.
He was now a full-time writer in neighboring Hamburg. In 1775/76 his main work, Grundriß einer Schöne Stadt , appeared, in which he developed the principles of a functional city layout and city administration. He was criticized by later critics for his rambling and lengthy baroque style.
According to contemporary sources, the representative of the Hanseatic cities in Saint Petersburg Johann Nicolaus Willebrandt is said to have been his son.
Fonts
- Hansische Chronick compiled from certified messages. Lübeck 1748
- Digital copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library , also on Google Books
- The allegorical picture cabinet or graceful moral teaching through pictures, fables and parables ... Lübeck 1750
- Digital copy of the fire-damaged copy in the Duchess Anna Amalia Library
- Lübeck's amenities for a foreigner described. Leipzig 1774.
- Ground plan of a beautiful city, with the intention of its layout and furnishings, for the convenience, for pleasure, for the growth and for the maintenance of its inhabitants, designed according to well-known patterns: together with a preface about the effect of the climate on the attitudes and legislation of the peoples. Hamburg: Bohn and in the golden ABC, 1775/76
- Digitized volume 1, copy from the Bavarian State Library
- Digitized volume 2/3, copy from the Bavarian State Library
- News from a trip to Carlsbad Brunnen. 1781.
literature
- Franklin Kopitzsch : Happy city! Praised Lübeck ... in: Rolf Hammel-Kiesow (Hrsg.): The memory of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck . Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2005, pp. 177-184. ISBN 3-7950-5555-5 .
- Hans Nirrnheim : Johann Peter Willebrand . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 43, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, p. 261 f.
- Manfred Eickhölter: What do a former town tavern have in common with the history of the Hanseatic League and the founding of the non-profit? (Biographical material on Johann Peter Willebrandt's time in Lübeck (1744–1755) and on his stepson Peter Michael Paarmann (1745–1801), in: Lübeckische Blätter , Heft 6, March 22, 2014, pp. 90–95).
Web links
- Works by and about Johann Peter Willebrand in the German Digital Library
- Literature about Johann Peter Willebrand in the state bibliography MV
- Entries on Johann Peter Willebrand in the catalog of the Herzog August Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Willebrand, Johann Nikolaus and Willebrand, Johann Peter in: Georg Christoph Hamberger , Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland: or, Lexicon of the German writers now living , Meyersche Buchhandlung, 1776, p. 1331 ( digitized version ); the ADB names another "only son".
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Willebrand, Johann Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Willebrandt, Johann Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, judge and travel writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 10, 1719 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rostock |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 22, 1786 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |