Johann Uphagen

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Johann Uphagen , also Jan Uphagen (born February 9, 1731 in Danzig ; † November 17, 1802 there ) was a German shipowner , merchant , councilor and bibliophile collector.

Life

family

Johann Uphagens ancestors lived in Flanders and were expelled from there for religious reasons towards the end of the 16th century. His ancestor Arnold of Uphagen bought in 1592 by the Grand Master , Winrich von Kniprode donated, about 3 miles from Gdansk located, aristocratic leisure mayor's office of Master forest in the district of Gdansk height .

He was the son of the businessman and councilor Peter Uphagen (* February 12, 1704 in Danzig; † January 22, 1774 ibid) and his wife Elisabeth, daughter of John Forret.

He married his first cousin Florentina Uphagen on May 19, 1763 († March 10, 1766). After the death of his wife, he was married to Abigal (née Borckmann) for the second time.

education

He received his first lessons from a private teacher in 1736 and entered the Academic Gymnasium in 1740 . After graduating from high school, he was apprenticed to his father for some time from 1747; During this time he also dealt with the Polish and French languages. His father was convinced that Johann Uphagen preferred to occupy himself with the sciences, and arranged for the syndic Gottfried Lengnich to draw up an opinion on his son in autumn 1749. After the expert opinion had been prepared, Johann Uphagen received private lessons until Easter 1751 and matriculated at the University of Göttingen and studied history , law and philosophy ; he attended the lectures given by Johann Lorenz von Mosheim , Georg Christian Gebauer , Georg Heinrich Ayrer , Christoph August Heumann , Johann David Köhler and his son Johann Tobias Köhler (1720–1768), Samuel Christian Hollmann and Andreas Weber . During his studies he also frequented the house of General Superintendent Jakob Wilhelm Feuerlein .

Career

After completing his studies, he went on a journey through Germany, Holland and France and acquired many valuable books during this time, which formed the beginning of his future library.

He then lived in Danzig as a private citizen , and from 1765 to 1771 he managed the court office at two Danzig hospitals . After the death of his father in 1775 he took over the family's trading company; in the same year he also acquired a residential building with a back building at Danziger Langgasse 12 and had it thoroughly rebuilt by Johann Benjamin Dreyer; after the completion of the building project, he lived in the house with his second wife from 1779.

In 1776 he was elected lay judge at the municipal court and in 1792 councilor. He was later a senior at the Danzig jury .

In 1793, as part of the Second Partition of Poland , Danzig was annexed to the Prussian monarchy and lost its special status of autonomy and urban freedom within the absolute monarchy of the Hohenzollern , whereupon he withdrew from political life.

Because he had no descendants, Johann Uphagen founded a majorate family foundation in 1789. His brother, who became the first majorate owner, managed the house in Langgasse, including the valuable collections and interior furnishings. In 1911, a museum for civil housing was housed in the house ; During the Second World War , the interior furnishings were outsourced and survived the war unscathed. The building itself was almost completely destroyed in 1945, but rebuilt in 1953; In 1988 the Uphagenhaus Museum , a department of the Gdańsk City History Museum , was opened there.

He belonged to the Reformed Church of St. Peter and Paul in Gdansk and after a short time became a member of the college of elders; he was a sponsor of the future pastor Samuel Ludwig Majewski (1736-1801).

Mon Plaisir

He died on his small estate Mon Plaisir in Langfuhr .

Scientific and bibliophile work

Since 1775 Johann Uphagen worked scientifically and was also concerned with collecting rare and valuable books. During his lifetime his library had over 20,000 volumes from the fields of humanism , law and art history ; Part of the collection is now in the Gdańsk Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences. It contains around 15,000 volumes with prints from the 16th to 18th centuries and manuscripts from the fields of history, law, political science , philology , theology , philosophy, mathematics , natural sciences as well as bibliographies and encyclopedias .

He also carried out local research on the history of Danzig and published various writings on this; He responded to the writing Thorough Message from the Dukes of Pomerania Danzig Line , among other things, with the salvation of honor for the older Polish historians .

Traction vehicle

honors and awards

Memberships

Fonts (selection)

literature

Web links

  • Johann Uphagen . In: Well-known Gdansk (website of the city of Gdansk).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Miłość w domu Uphagenów. Retrieved July 30, 2020 (Polish).
  2. ↑ Uphagena Cathedral, Gdańsk. Accessed July 30, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Sabine Beckmann, Klaus Garber: cultural history of Prussia royal Polish share in the early modern period . Walter de Gruyter, 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-094010-7 ( google.de [accessed July 31, 2020]).
  4. ^ Daniel Gralath: Attempt at a history of Danzig . Gottlieb Leberecht Hartung, 1789 ( google.de [accessed on July 31, 2020]).
  5. ↑ West Prussia - West Prussia - a land of the Reformation. Accessed July 31, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Johannes Demandt: Johannes Daniel Falk: his way from Danzig via Halle to Weimar (1768-1799) . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1999, ISBN 978-3-525-55820-1 ( google.de [accessed July 31, 2020]).
  7. ↑ Handbook of the historical book collections in Germany, Austria and Europe (Fabian Handbook): Gdansk. Accessed July 31, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Christian Friedrich Jllgen: Journal for historical theology. In connection with the historical-theolog. Ges. Zu Leipzig ed. by Christian Friedrich Illgen . Barth, 1862 ( google.de [accessed July 31, 2020]).
  9. ↑ Thorough message from the Dukes of Pomerania Danzig Line . Decker, 1774 ( google.de [accessed July 30, 2020]).
  10. ↑ Königl.-Grossbrittannischer and Churfürstl.-Braunschweig-Lüneburgscher Staatskalender: on the leap year 1796, in which the state register of the royal governments and other high civil and military servants in the German states together with a genealogical register of all the most illustrious high houses in Europe located. 1796 . 1796 ( google.de [accessed July 31, 2020]).
  11. ^ Johann Stephan Pütter: Attempt of an academic scholarly history from the Georg Augustus University in Göttingen . Wittwe Vandenhoeck, 1820 ( google.de [accessed July 31, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Uphagen, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Uphagen, Jan; Uphagen, Joannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German shipowner, merchant and bibliophile collector
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1731
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH November 17, 1802
Place of death Danzig