Justus Erich Bollmann

Justus Erich Bollmann (born March 10, 1769 in Hoya an der Weser; † December 10, 1821 in Kingston , Jamaica ) was a doctor, politician and businessman.

Life

Bollmann, son of a wealthy businessman, studied medicine in Göttingen and went to Paris in 1792 after he had obtained his doctorate to become a doctor.

The French Revolution thwarted this intention. At the request of Frau von Stael , whose acquaintance he had made, in August he saved her lover, the royalist war minister Narbonne , from the persecution of the revolutionary Jacobins in England. In contrast, his attempt in autumn 1793 to free the Marquis de La Fayette from his prison in Olomouc failed . He was arrested for this by the Prussian authorities and sentenced to one month in prison in 1794.

Bollmann then went to America, where he founded a commission business in Philadelphia in 1797, which after initially successful business had to be liquidated in 1803. As an agent of the House of Baring , he attended the Congress of Vienna from 1814-15 . In 1815 he founded a chemical factory near London.

But he died on a trip to the West Indies in Jamaica.

Bollmann is one of the main characters in Heinrich Albert Oppermann's novel Hundred Years . Bollmann's biography was first made known by Karl August Varnhagen von Ense , who was in correspondence with him from 1814-1819 and wrote about Lafayette's liberation from Olomouc by Bollmann and Huger in 1794 in the magazine Minerva (1837) . Bollmann sources have come down to us in the Varnhagen collection .

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literature

• Heinrich Albert Oppermann: Justus Erich Bollmann. In: Hundred Years: 1770–1870; Time and life images from three generations. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1871 (reprint, 4th edition: Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-86150-257-7 ) ( Gutenberg-DE project )

• Karl August Varnhagen von Ense: Memories of Justus Erich Bollmann’s . The same: Lafayette - Bollmann - Huger . In: Ludmilla Assing (Ed.): Mixed writings by KA Varnhagen von Ense . 3rd probably edition Th. 1 (Selected Writings Volume 17), FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1875, pp. 141–270
• Friedrich Kapp: Justus Erich Bollmann. A picture of life from two parts of the world . Published by Julius Springer, Berlin 1880 ( digitized version, Internet Archive , books.google.de )