Moritz Friedrich Illig

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Moritz Friedrich Illig (born October 30, 1777 in Erbach (Odenwald) ; † July 26, 1845 in Darmstadt ) was a German watchmaker and the inventor of the glueing of paper in bulk .

Origin and family

The former Illig paper mill in Nieder-Ramstadt

the watchmaker Moritz Friedrich Illig was born as the son of the paper manufacturer Johannes Illig and his wife Christiane Elisabeth Wittich. His father was the owner of the paper mill in Erbach. Grandfather owned the paper mills in Unter-Schmitten and Nieder-Ramstadt . Illig originated from a widespread papermaking dynasty, whose origin is believed to be in Switzerland . The Illigs belong to the ancestors of Friedrich Karl Henkel , the founder of the Henkel Group .

Through his maternal grandfather, Moritz Friedrich Illig was a grandson of Kilian Ludwig Wittich, who worked as an official secretary in the Hesse-Darmstadt office of Dornberg . The Wittich family provided landgrave Hesse-Darmstadt and grand ducal Hessian court printers . For this purpose , the question and advertising paper was published in the Wittich'schen Hofbuchdruckerei in Darmstadt .

Due to the maternal-grandmotherly descent of Johann Christoph Scriba, who worked as pastor in Eberstadt and Nieder-Beerbach , Illig was a relative of the real secret councilor Johann Georg Scriba and is listed in the Scriba genealogy as a member of the Scriba family, which their lineage 1567 begins with Heinrich Schneider called Scriba and produced a branch that was raised to the imperial nobility in 1793 .

The inventor, watchmaker and paper manufacturer Moritz Friedrich Illig was also related to the art publisher Karl Christian Köhler , whose mother Marie Katharine Köhler was a daughter of the Hessian commissioner Johann Christian Illig. The relatives also included Sophie Eleonore Illig, the wife of the bookseller Gustav Georg Lange .

Moritz Friedrich Illig was married to Marie Elisabeth Pfeil. The marriage resulted in the three sons Johann Wilhelm Illig, Christian Karl Illig and Georg Gottlieb Illig as well as the daughter Jakobine Florentine Theodore Illig. His daughter-in-law Henriette Sybilla came from the Boßler family in southern Hesse .

Merit and work

With the invention of resin sizing for paper in bulk, Illig achieved its outstanding importance post mortem . It replaced the usual glueing of paper with glue and became a guarantor for the industrial mass production of paper products.

The process developed by Moritz Friedrich Illig was up in the 70s of the last century used.

But even during his lifetime, Illig was a mechanic who was gifted in science and technology. He had been running his workshop in Darmstadt since 1813. There he made a mechanical instrument for the observatory in the royal seat, among other things . Furthermore, the movement in the glockenspiel of the Darmstadt City and Residence Palace and the tower clock in Wolfsgarten Castle came from Friedrich Moritz Illig . Illig created a clockwork for the Alte Palais , which is located in the flute clock there.

On the grave memorial for Moritz Friedrich Illig, which is located in the old cemetery in Darmstadt and is one of the graves of honor there , there is the inscription: His work continues to benefit mankind .

Works

  • Moritz Friedrich Illig: Instructions on how to glue paper in bulk in a safe, simple and inexpensive way. As a contribution to the art of papermaking . Reprint of the original edition from 1807. Research Center for Paper History Mainz, 1959.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerda Henkel: The papermaker's ancestors in the pedigree of the Henkel siblings . Private printing Henkel, Düsseldorf-Hösel 1941, DNB  580908542 , p. 247-250 .
  2. ^ Illig, Moritz Friedrich. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  3. ↑ Bernhard Koerner (ed.): Darmstädter gender book . tape 2 - band 96 of the complete series of the Genealogical Handbook of Bourgeois Families . Starke Verlag , 1937, ZDB -ID 1041-8 , p. 627-640, .
  4. ^ Eduard Scriba : Genealogical-biographical overview of the Scriba family . Wittich'sche Hofbuchdruckerei, Darmstadt 1824, p. 3-4, 42, 115, 145-146 ( digitized version ).
  5. ^ Walter von Hueck: Genealogical manual of the nobility . Volume XIII. Adelslexikon - Volume 128 of the total series. Starke Verlag, 2002, ZDB -ID 963126-4 , p. 237 .
  6. ^ Koehler, Christian Philipp Carl. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  7. ↑ Bernhard Koerner (ed.): Hessian gender book . tape 3 - volume 52 of the complete series of the Genealogical Handbook of Bourgeois Families . Starke Verlag , 1927, ZDB -ID 2252-4 , p. 625 .
personal data
SURNAME Illig, Moritz Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Inventor of the sizing of paper in bulk
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH Erbach (Odenwald)
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1845
Place of death Darmstadt