Johann Rottenhöfer
Johann Rottenhöfer (* 1806 in Würzburg ; † 1872 ) was a German steward and cook .
Johann Rottenhöfer completed his apprenticeship as a chef and then gained further cooking experience while traveling to Greece , France , Italy and Malta . He also compiled numerous international recipes. After his return from abroad, Rottenhöfer was hired first as a mouth cook and then as steward of the kings of Bavaria Maximilian II († 1864) and Ludwig II . The royal family and their guests were the only ones for whom Rottenhöfer personally cooked.
In 1858 the published Publisher Braun & Schneider rotting Höfer's collection of 2,345 cooking and baking recipes as a new complete theoretical and practical instruction in the finer art of cooking with special attention to the noble and bourgeois cuisine , considered one of the most important German cookbooks of the 19th century was and was published several times up to the First World War , partly as an illustrated cookbook . In 1864 a few more recipes were published under the title The elegant coffee and tea table: the recipes of Ludwig II. Of Bavaria's personal chef .
literature
- Werner Ebnet: You lived in Munich: biographies from eight centuries . Allitera Verlag, Munich, 2016, ISBN 978-3-86906-744-5 , p. 502.
Web links
- Literature by and about Johann Rottenhöfer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Johann Rottenhöfer in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Works by Johann Rottenhöfer in the Gutenberg-DE project
- New complete theoretical and practical instruction in the fine art of cooking with special consideration of the stately and middle-class cuisine in the Gutenberg-DE project
- Johann Rottenhöfer: New complete theoretical-practical instruction in the fine art of cooking with special consideration of the stately and middle-class cuisine: Illustrirt by Em. Drexler; Verlag Braun & Schneider, Munich 1859 (digitized version), (see also online - Internet Archive )
- Johann Rottenhöfer: The elegant, well-served coffee and tea table: with a picture of the coffee and tea plant and several of the latest coffee-making devices; Braun & Schneider Verlag, Munich 1864 (digital version)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rottenhöfer, Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German steward and cook |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1806 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wurzburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1872 |