Moyse Garrigue (the elder)

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Moyse Garrigue (the elder) (* 1663 in Mazamet ; † October 8, 1715 in Magdeburg ) was a jeweler and trader , citizen of the French colony of Magdeburg and church leader (ancien) of the French Reformed Church .

Life

Moyse (Moses) Garrigue (called "the elder" to distinguish it from his great-nephew of the same name ( Moyse Garrigue )), was the youngest of six children of the Huguenots Jean de la Garrigue (* around 1610 in Languedoc; † after 1670 in Holland) and Elisabeth Rossignoll (* around 1615; † in Holland), from two old, noble French families in Languedoc. The coat of arms of the de la Garrigue family has been preserved and was used for a long time. 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.

The religious wars of the 17th century forced Moyses parents to leave the country for reasons of faith. They moved with three of their children (daughters Madelaine and Rachel and the preacher and judge Jean Garrigue, whose son Matthieu became the progenitor of the American Garrigue line) to Holland, where they also died. The minor children who remained in the country, Moyse and the other two siblings (Pierre and Elisabeth), were deprived of property and titles of nobility. They became commercial citizens . Moyse learned the craft of a goldsmith .

After religious freedom was abolished ( Edict of Nantes ), the 23-year-old Moyse Garrigue also fled to Germany in 1686 from Mazamet in Languedoc , France . He accepted the invitation of the Great Elector to Brandenburg ( Edict of Potsdam of October 29, 1685). His 9-year-old nephew Jacques Garrigue , a son of his brother Pierre , moved in with Moyse . Pierre himself also fled Mazamet, but only as far as Vaucluse , in the nearby Duchy of Orange , which at that time was not yet under the French crown. Moyse first moved to Halle (Saale) via Bayreuth . While still in Bayreuth, he married (on April 26, 1688) the Huguenot Justine Vacher (* 1663 in Grenoble); the marriage remained childless. In Halle, also in 1688, the electoral government of Brandenburg gave him a duty-free, empty house to set up a jewelry store. For unknown reasons, Moyse Garrigue turned down the offer and went to Magdeburg at the end of 1688, where he became a citizen of the French colony of Magdeburg that same year.

Moyse Garrigue died in 1715 at the age of 52, highly respected in the French colony in Magdeburg. His widow Justine Vacher moved to Prenzlau in 1724 to live with her niece Marthe Pages (a daughter of Moyse's brother Pierre, from her marriage to Isabeau Martel). There she died on May 25, 1729.

Activities and Public Effectiveness

The jeweler Moyse Garrigue seems to have saved his fortune from France and brought it back to Brandenburg . It enabled him to open a jewelry store and quickly gained recognition as a citizen. In 1692 he bought the Altenmarkt 30 house together with the Menadier brothers for 1145 thalers.

His nephew Jacques Garrigue learned the uncle's craft in his jewelry store, which he later perfected outside of Magdeburg. As a "marchand-jouaillier" (merchant and goldsmith), as Moyse is called in the citizen's role , he also operated in trade, which probably related to gold and precious stones.

In addition, Garrigues was particularly interested in the French Reformed parish. He supported her request to get her own church building in Magdeburg very soon in the public as well as in the private sector. On April 1, 1695 he was elected head of the church ( Ancien ). Garrigue was also actively and zealously involved in public tasks and affairs of the French colony. He spent time and money on this. So in 1699, on behalf of the colony, he held talks with the electoral authority in Berlin. His nephew Jacques and two servants accompanied him on this trip.

As early as 1710 Moyse Garrigue (the elder) withdrew from his business and, since he had no biological children, handed it over to his nephew Jacques together with the house. Later, Jacques was joined by his half-brother Jean, who came from Orange in 1713 and was also a master goldsmith (maître orfèvre). Moyse Garrigue had built a new house on the goldsmith's bridge. The third generation of the family to inherit the jewelry business from Jacques Garrigue to his son Moyse.

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.
  • 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.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johannes Fischer: The French Colony of Magdeburg. Magdeburg Cultural and Economic Life No. 22, 1942, page 148
  2. ^ Henri Tollin: The French Colony in Magdeburg . Publishing house Niemeyer, Halle 1887, page 419
  3. ^ Johannes Fischer: The French Colony of Magdeburg. Magdeburg Cultural and Economic Life No. 22, 1942, page 148
  4. ^ Johannes Fischer: The French Colony of Magdeburg. Magdeburg Cultural and Economic Life No. 22, 1942, page 78
  5. ^ Johannes Fischer: The French Colony of Magdeburg. Magdeburg Cultural and Economic Life No. 22, 1942, page 148
personal data
SURNAME Garrigue, Moyse
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Garrigue, Moyse the Elder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jeweler and dealer
DATE OF BIRTH 1663
PLACE OF BIRTH Mazamet
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1715
Place of death Magdeburg