Johann Schopenhauer

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Johann Schopenhauer (* 1670 ; † after 1724 ) was a merchant in Danzig and great-grandfather of the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer .

Life

The ancestors on his father's side were farmers in Danzig Werder. The father Johann Schoppenhauer had a farm in Petershagen (today Żelikowo) and in 1695 became a village mayor there. The mother Maria Pfeiler came from Elbing . Johann (II.) Was probably born on his parents' estate in Petershagen. In 1688 he had a birth certificate issued in Elbing. In 1695 he received the citizenship of Danzig. Johann (II.) Schopenhauer was the first merchant in the family on his father's side. There may have been merchants in the maternal family.

In 1708 Johann Schopenhauer and his brother Simon leased the Stutthof estate, the largest estate in the city of Danzig outside the city walls. According to family tradition, the Russian Tsar Peter I and his niece Katharina Ivanovna stayed there in 1716 . In 1724 the brothers returned the domain to the city of Danzig. After that, no more messages have been received about him.

Johann Schopenhauer was married to Marie Elisabeth Lessig since 1707. Was a son

literature

  • Walther Rauschenberger : Schopenhauer's ancestors and relatives. In: Yearbook of the Schopenhauer Society . 1940. pp. 115-137, here pp. 124-126.
  • Hans Georg Siegler: The homeless Arthur Schopenhauer. Droste 1994. pp. 26f., After Rauschenberger

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wilhelm Gwinner : Arthur Schopenhauer presented from personal contact. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1862. p. 4 , the story is historically credible, Tsar Peter traveled to Danzig in 1716 and then on to Western Europe. However, Gwinner confuses the first names of Johann and Andreas Schopenhauer
personal data
SURNAME Schopenhauer, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Merchant in Gdansk
DATE OF BIRTH 1670
DATE OF DEATH after 1724