Museum of objects of nature and art
The Museum for Objects of Nature and Art was a museum that was built by Peter Friedrich Röding and maintained in Hamburg from 1804 to 1846; also popularly called Rödings Museum .
collection
On April 14, 1804 , Peter Friedrich Röding opened his museum in Hamburg on Steinstrasse. It had to be closed the following year in order to be reopened on Deichtorwall in September 1805. The museum also remained closed during the French occupation from 1806 to 1814. The museum was open on Thursdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and closed in the winter months of December, January and February. Entry was 2 marks. The collection was housed in two rooms, one for nature and one for art. While earlier eyewitnesses reported with interest that ... this private museum was one of the first in Europe , later did not spare criticism: ... an old, low, decaying material building that hardly protects against rain and wind, actually a long building shed ... . Some advocated that the city should buy the museum. This request was not met, which is why the collection was auctioned on May 31, 1847.
In the space for nature the following could be seen: the head of a narwhal , on which both tusks are formed, marsupials in alcohol from North America, 200 mammals, approx. 800 birds, 228 amphibians , 300 fish, 10,000 conchylia .
The space for art showed: a neat work by Dürer , a vase by Benvenuto Cellini , many objects made of amber , armor, weapons and a complete Hamburg coin collection, an amber goblet from the great elector, a library with natural history books.
Some parts (valuable works of art, marble bust) came from an auction of the “Chur-köllnischen Schatz ”, other parts from art and nature were bought by Peter Friedrich Röding at an auction on May 2, 1798 from the estate of his father-in-law and sub-physicist Friedrich Ludwig Christian Cropp . Röding bought the cross on the steeple of the broken Hamburg Cathedral for the museum.
The Conchylia collection came to the Natural History Museum , a collection of copperplate engravings, hand drawings, maps, etc. a., referring to Hamburg, was bought by the city archive .
An advertisement in the Hamburger Nachrichten on June 6, 1846 announced that the museum was "closed to public visitors" until further notice. Peter Friedrich Röding died on June 8, 1846. Advertisements in the “Hamburger Nachrichten” advertised a series of subscription issues entitled “Museum for Art and Nature”.
literature
- Hildegard Vieregg: Prehistory of museum education , didactic approaches when museums were founded in Hamburg in the 19th century. LIT Verlag, Hamburg 1991 (University of Munich, dissertation 1990), p. 257, digitized version
- Alfred Rohde : The art museum of the elder Peter Friedrich Röding and its auction in 1847, a contribution to the history of public and private collecting in Hamburg, in: Der Cicerone , 12th vol., 1920, pp. 717–724 and p. 783 –788, (also in: Der Kunstsammler. On collecting and art events. Munich Yearbook for Fine Arts, issue 18, 1928.)
- Th. [Theodor] Schrader : The upper old Röding and the association for Hamburg history. From the Hamburg antiquities collection. III. Hamburgensien from Röding's Museum , in: Mitteilungen des Verein für Hamburgische Geschichte , XX. Vol. 1901, pp. 316-317 digitized
- Th. Schrader: From the Hamburg antiquities collection. III. Hamburgensien from Röding's Museum , in: Mitteilungen des Verein für Hamburgische Geschichte , XX. Vol. 1901, p. 317 ff. Digitized
Historical representations
- Life and letters of Adelbert von Chamisso . In: Julius Eduard Hitzig (Hrsg.): Adelbert von Chamisso's works . 2nd Edition. tape 5 . Weidmann'sche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1842, p. 6 ( Digitized - description of the poor condition of the collection. Letters from Chamisso to Hitzig during the trip around the world (1815–1818)).
- Correspondence - messages (Hamburg) . In: Morgenblatt for educated stands . 14th year Cotta, Stuttgart, Tübingen October 26, 1826, p. 1032 [424] et al. 1035 [427] ( digitized version ).
- (Karl Heinrich Hübbe), Johann Christian Plath : the museum of nature and art of Mr. PF Röding . In: Views of the Free Hanseatic City of Hamburg . 2nd part. Friedrich Wilmans, Frankfurt / M. 1828, p. 177 ( digitized version ).
- M. Beyer, L. Koch: Hamburg, February 26th . In: American Travel . 1st chapter. Immanuel Müller, Leipzig 1839, p. 57 ff . ( Digitized - description of the state of the collection).
- Franz Julius Ferdinand Meyen : Hamburg and its trade. In: Reise um die Erde , (1830, 1831, 1832), Volume 1, Sander'sche Buchhandlung, Berlin, 1834, pp. 7–8, ( digitized version )
- G. Ericson, Magnus Martin Pontin: XIX. Chapter: Hamburg and departure from there . In: Comments on nature, art and science, on a trip via Berlin and the Harz Mountains to Hamburg to the meeting of naturalists and doctors in 1830, along with the return trip via Copenhagen . Third Division: Assembly of Naturalists and Doctors. Meissner, Hamburg 1832, p. 242 ( online - a brief description on the occasion of the meeting in 1830).
- James FW Johnston: Meeting of the Cultivators of Natural Science and Medicine at Hamburgh in September 1830 . In: The Edinburgh Journal of Science Art . Vol. VIII. Thomas Clark, Edinburgh, pp. 189–243 (English, digital copy - p. 212 report of a visit to the museum on the occasion of the meeting of the Society of Natural Scientists and Doctors in Hamburg in 1830).
- NN: Museum of Objects of Nature and Art . In: Hamburg as it was and is . PFL Hoffmannsche Buchhandlung, Hamburg 1827, p. 110–111 ( digitized version - author possibly Carl Nicolaus Röding (1780-1839)).
- Georg Nikolaus Bärmann : Museum for objects of nature and art of Mr. PF Röding, at the infantry armory, on Deichthorwall . In: Hamburg and the Hamburg area . Friedrich Hermann Nestler, Hamburg 1822, p. 180 ( digitized version - text similar to that in the address books).
- Peter Friedrich Röding: More information about the museum I set up for objects of nature and art . In: Hamburg and Altona . tape 3 , no. 3 , 1804, pp. 61 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Hans Schröder
- ↑ a b c d e Franz Julius Ferdinand Meyen
- ↑ a b Hamburg address book (1836). Alphabetical directory of Hamburg public institutions, charitable associations, buildings and some other oddities, initially for foreigners. P. 509, ( online )
- ^ Ignaz Kuranda : Hamburg people and conditions (diary). In: Die Grenzboten (weekly magazine), 5th vol., No. 19, Friedrich Ludwig Herbig, Leipzig 1846, p. 260, ( digitized version )
- ↑ August Klingemann : Art and Nature , sheets from my travel diary, 1st volume, GCE Meyer, Braunschweig 1819, pp. 353–354, ( digitized version )
- ^ Christian Carl André: The Hamburg State . (Continued) In: Hesperus (Encyclopaedic magazine for educated readers), JG Cotta'sche Buchhandlung, Stuttgart, No. 106, April 4, 1825, p. 423, ( digitized version )
- ^ F [Friedrich] Georg Buek : Hamburg antiquities . Contribution to the history of the city and its customs, Perthes-Besser & Maucke, Hamburg 1859, p. 7
- ↑ Hamburger Nachrichten , June 6, 1846, page 8
- ↑ The museum was then reopened. Advertisements in the Hamburger Nachrichten from the end of May 1847 show that the museum was last open to visitors on May 31, 1847.
- ↑ Hamburger Nachrichten , October 4, 1844, page 8 and March 27, 1844, also p. 8. It is not known whether copies have survived to this day.
