Julius Erhard

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Lettering at the former location of the collection in the Schwäbisch Gmünd University of Design
Tomb in the Leonhard Cemetery

Julius Gustav Erhard (born March 21, 1820 in Schwäbisch Gmünd ; † January 19, 1898 ibid) was a German manufacturer , councilor, and antiquity and art collector .

Life

Erhard completed his school years in Stuttgart and started an apprenticeship at the jeweler Theodor Strube in Leipzig in 1834 . Returning home in 1838, he worked as an engraver apprentice in Gmünd until 1841. He then went to London , 1842 to Paris and 1843 to Munich , where he completed his training with artistic studies.

After returning home in 1844, he founded the Erhard & Sons company with his father, the Kommerzienrat Karl Gottlob Erhard and his brother . Among other things, he managed a studio there, in which various well-known designers later worked, including Wilhelm Widemann and Carl Offterdinger .

Committed to local history Erhard put on a large collection of over 1000 objects, which after his death was transferred to the municipal museum as Erhard's collection of antiquities .

According to Wagner, he was given various honors and decorations. Among other things, he was awarded the honorary citizenship of his hometown and the Erhardstrasse there was named after him. In 1888 Anton Pfitzer dedicated his monograph on the Johanniskirche in Schwäbisch Gmünd to him “in love and admiration”. He was buried in the city's Leonhard Cemetery.

literature

  • Ernst Wagner : Kommerzienrat Julius Erhard , in: Württembergische Jahrbücher für Statistik und Landeskunde 1899, Issue I, pp. 145–150 ( online ).
  • Hermann Kissling : Julius Erhard, the collector and donor , in: Art in the Municipal Museum Schwäbisch Gmünd - Schwäbisch Gmünd, 1979, p. 10 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "On the 70th birthday in recognition of the excellent services rendered to the city and its metal industry by maintaining and promoting the local advanced training school and the trade museum he founded", according to the Schwäbisch Gmünd city archive, local council minutes of March 21, 1890.
  2. ↑ Additional signs: Asylum Street, Hospitalgasse, Erhardstraße, Franziskanergasse, Haußmannstraße of 17 October 2010 to remszeitung.de.
  3. ^ Anton Pfitzer: The Johanniskirche zu Gmünd and Bishop Walther I. von Augsburg , see file: De Die Johanniskirche zu Gmünd Pfitzer 004.jpg
  4. ↑ Grablege Erhard (Leonhardsfriedhof Schwäbisch Gmünd) on genealogy.net (accessed on April 18, 2015).
personal data
SURNAME Erhard, Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Erhard, Julius Gustav (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur, councilor and collector
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwäbisch Gmünd
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1898
Place of death Schwäbisch Gmünd