Matthias Franz Borgnis

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Matthias Franz Borgnis (born February 8, 1798 in Mainz , † October 29, 1867 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German banker , jeweler and tobacco manufacturer .

life and work

Borgnis was the second son of the merchant Francesco Antonio Borgnis (1758-1819) and his wife Cathérine Fontaine (1775-1859). The large family came from the Upper Italian Valle Vigezzo and had become prosperous through the trade in jewelry and tobacco . Relationships with the Frankfurt families Gontard and Bolongaro existed through marriage .

Borgnis married on April 6, 1828 in Frankfurt am Main Louise von Bethmann (1792–1869), the widow of the banker Simon Moritz von Bethmann . She brought four sons into the marriage between 1811 and 1821. The marriage to Borgnis had four more children:

  • Louise (1829-1908),
  • Anna (1831-1919),
  • Friedrich (1832–1912) and
  • Alfred (1834-1862).

The family lived in a villa in Frankfurt on Untermainkai 8 . In 1838 Borgnis acquired the Zum Grünen Baum inn in Königstein im Taunus and converted it into a summer residence. In 1847 he withdrew from his business. In 1860 he had the Villa Borgnis built in place of his previous summer residence . The Borgnisweg in Königstein is named after him. It is the way from the Billtalhöhe parallel to the federal road 8 along the former "Eisweihern" to the Naturfreundehaus Billtalhöhe.

Borgnis was one of the founders of the Mary Altar in Frankfurt's Leonhard Church, created by Eduard Jakob von Steinle in 1854/55 . The altar was destroyed in the Second World War in 1944 by the collapse of the south aisle during the air raids on Frankfurt am Main, except for the central picture, which is now in the Salvatorchörlein of the Leonhardskirche.

His older brother Carlo Hieronymus Borgnis (1795–1861) also became a banker in Frankfurt.

literature

  • Wolfgang Klötzer, bankers are people too. 225 years of banking house Gebrüder Bethmann , Frankfurt am Main 1973, pp. 211–215.
  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 83.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ State and address handbook of the Free City of Frankfurt 1852 , p. 42 [1]
  2. ↑ Hermin Herr: Lexikon vom Hohe Taunus, 1993, ISBN 3-7829-0437-0 , p. 14
  3. ↑ Borgnis, Carlo Hieronymus. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
personal data
SURNAME Borgnis, Matthias Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German banker, jeweler and tobacco manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1867
Place of death Frankfurt am Main