Louis Schwabe
Louis Schwabe (also Lewis ) (born August 4, 1798 in Dessau , † January 11, 1845 in Manchester ) was a silk manufacturer in Manchester.
Life
His parents were the protective Jew and merchant Samson Benjamin Schwabe (1770-1845) and Depan Frederica Liepman, his siblings Leopold, Stephan and Suzanne. He emigrated to England and settled in Manchester in 1817, where he first worked on Cross Street and later moved his large Silk Mill to Portland Street. He supplied the English and French courts. With his wife, Eliza Thackeray, a cousin of William Makepeace Thackeray , he had the children Louis Jr. (1831–1922), Rosalie (* 1834) and Eliza (* 1836).
Create
On January 22nd, 1831 he received a patent for his methods and apparatus for preparing, printing and weaving cotton, silk and wool yarn. He supported the Manchester School of Design , founded in 1838, and supplied the satin for Queen Victoria's wedding dress. In 1842, in Manchester, he showed woven fabrics made from glass threads obtained by pulling molten glass through the finest openings - the first use of a spinneret .
death
A few days after learning of his father's death, he ingested sulfuric acid. As a result, his widow had to take legal action about the life insurance he had taken out in 1836.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry on The MAN & Other Families
- ↑ B. Love: Manchester as it is ; P. 207
- ↑ Schwabe, Louis: Methods and apparatus for preparing, printing and weaving cotton, silk and wool yarns etc .. In: Polytechnisches Journal . 52, 1834, pp. 118-124.
- ↑ There has been a legal dispute over the patent. Re Woodcrofts Patent , in: Edmund Moore: Reports of Cases Heard and Determined by the Judicial Committee and ... , Vol. III, 1839, 40-41, London, pp. 171ff., Digitized
- ^ The Gentleman's magazine , Volume 179, Aug. 1845, p. 205, digitized
- ↑ German Hosiery Museum: Artificial silk ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Clift and Another v. Eliza Schwabe, Administratrix with the Will annexed of Louis Schwabe ..., in: Reports of cases argued and determined in the English courts of ... ; Volume 3; P. 437f, digitized
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schwabe, Louis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schwabe, Lewis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Silk manufacturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1798 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dessau |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 11, 1845 |
| Place of death | Manchester |