Moyse Garrigue

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Moyse Garrigue (1708–1750) Assessor at the French court in Magdeburg

Moyse Garrigue (born September 9, 1708 in Magdeburg ; † February 1, 1750 ibid) was a jeweler and goldsmith , court assessor of the French colony in Magdeburg and director of the colony's French orphanage.

Life

Moyse (Moses) Garrigue, often called "the Younger", came from an ancient French family from Languedoc . In the wars of religion of the 17th century, probably because of their Huguenot beliefs, they lost property and titles of nobility and became commercial citizens . The coat of arms of the de la Garrigue family has survived as seal impressions on wills . It is emblazoned as follows : " Shield divided horizontally, in the upper field 2 crossed acorns, in the lower 5 oak trees ". The acorns and oak trees directly reflect the content of the name Garrigue .

Moyse is the oldest of 14 children. His father Jacques Garrigue (1677-1730) fled as a child with his uncle, the jeweler Moyse Garrigue (the elder) , shortly after the abolition of religious freedom ( Edict of Nantes ) in 1686 from Mazamet in Languedoc, France to Germany. They first moved to Halle (Saale) via Bayreuth . At the end of 1688 they came to Magdeburg, where Jacques married Marguérite Nicolas (* 1686 in Grenoble ; † September 1726 in Prenzlau ) on October 18, 1707 , who was also a Huguenot. On October 28, 1707 Jacques Garrigue received the citizenship of the French colony of Magdeburg.

Moyse Garrigue and his brother (Jacques) learned the craft of a jeweler and goldsmith from his father Jacques. The profession was already in the third generation of his family, from great uncle Moyse (the elder) to father Jacques and his sons. On November 30, 1730, Moyse Garrigue married Wilhelmine Henriette Serres (* 1711; † 1795) in Berlin , a Huguenot, like himself, who was born in Germany. On her mother's side, she came from the tapestry families Barraband and Mercier, who had immigrated from Aubusson . The Garrigue couple had a total of nine children, five of whom survived their father. Garrigue's daughters Justine Henriette and Marianne Friederike Wilhelmine were the first of their families to no longer marry within the circle of the French colony, but instead found their partners in German Magdeburg bourgeois families ( Schwartz and Gaertner ). Moyse Garrigues son-in-law Philipp Christian Schwartz and his two grandsons Ernst Jakob Schwartz and Johann Isaac Schwartz were mayors of the Palatinate colony of Magdeburg.

activities

Moyse Garrigue (the younger) lived in Magdeburg. Soon after taking over the jewelry business and workshop inherited from his father, he also became a citizen of the French colony. He was wealthy because his house was insured for 1,600 thalers in 1746. From 1738, like his father Jacques, he took over the post of lay judge ( judge ) at the French colony court of Magdeburg. Although it was an honorary position , it required a great deal of commitment and effort, as some significant disputes were fought in court during his tenure.

Since the times of his great-uncle Moyse, the Garrigue family has repeatedly devoted themselves to public and social tasks in Magdeburg. In 1748 Moyse Garrigue took over the very responsible position of director of the French orphanage (Maison des Orphelins), which he held until his death.

Moyse Garrigue was interested in the culture of his new home in Brandenburg and took an active part in it. He maintained contact with poets of his time, such as Samuel Gotthold Lange , Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim and Johann Georg Sulzer . Irrespective of this, however, he felt obliged to the French tradition in his public offices and vigorously represented the interests of his French compatriots with the privileges promised to them in Brandenburg.

aftermath

Some of the descendants of Moyse Garrigue can be found abroad (Denmark and USA). One of the best-known among them is probably the pianist Charlotte Garrigue , born in Brooklyn , as the daughter of one of his great-grandchildren, the bookseller Rudolph Pierre Garrigues . She became the wife of the first President of Czechoslovakia Tomáš Masaryk . When he married, Masaryk even added his wife's surname to his own name and was henceforth Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk.

The singer Eugenia Malvina Garrigues also achieved international fame . The Danish- born great-granddaughter of Moyse Garrigue appeared together with her husband Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld in the title roles of the world premiere of Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde .

literature

  • Johannes Fischer: The French colony of Magdeburg. Magdeburg cultural and economic life No. 22, 1942.
  • Ed. Muret: History of the French Colony in Brandenburg-Prussia. 1885.
  • Rolf Straubel : merchants and manufacturing entrepreneurs . F. Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1995.
  • Henri Tollin: The French Colony in Magdeburg . Publishing house Niemeyer, Halle 1887.
  • CHN Garrigues: Silhouettes of Garrigues and some other profiles. Orbis Publishing House, Prague 1930.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johannes Fischer: Johannes Fischer: The French Colony of Magdeburg. Magdeburg Cultural and Economic Life No. 22, 1942, page 150
  2. ↑ Johannes Fischer: The Palatinate Colony in Magdeburg. Magdeburg cultural and economic life No. 19, 1939, pages 23/24
  3. ^ Johannes Fischer: Johannes Fischer: The French Colony of Magdeburg. Magdeburg Cultural and Economic Life No. 22, 1942, page 151
personal data
SURNAME Garrigue, Moyse
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Garrigue, Moyse the Younger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jeweler, judge
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1708
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1750
Place of death Magdeburg