Johann Volkamer (manufacturer)
Johann Volkamer (born March 10, 1576 in Lobenstein , † 1661 in Nuremberg ) was a German merchant , factory owner and garden lover.
Life
Johann Volkamer (also: Volcamer , Volckamer , Volkammer ) came from a family based in Lobenstein in the Vogtland . After completing a commercial apprenticeship in Nuremberg, he founded a silk manufacture in Rovereto . Having become prosperous, he laid out the "Volkamer'schen Garten im Gostenhof" in Nuremberg, which introduced sons and grandchildren to botany. Johann Volkamer was married to Helena Ayrer, a daughter of the Nuremberg theater poet Jakob Ayrer . His son Johann Georg Volkamer the Elder and his grandson Johann Volkamer became well-known physicians, botanists and writers. The grandson Johann Christoph Volkamer also became a manufacturer, businessman and botanist.
At the age of 85, Johann Volkamer died in 1661 as a Banco Assessor in Nuremberg.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Georg Wolfgang Karl Lochner : About the participation of the city of Nuremberg in the thirty-year war: from 1618 until Gustav Adolph's first arrival in Nuremberg in 1632, Merz 21, Campe, 1832, p. 7, footnote 2
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Volkamer, Johann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Volckamer, Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German merchant and manufacturer and garden lover |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1576 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Praise stone |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1661 |
| Place of death | Nuremberg |