Nikolaus Haller

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Nikolaus Haller (born November 1539 in Augsburg , † 1584 in Augsburg) was a Fugger factor in Genoa , Milan and Spain . He was also Imperial and Bavarian Councilors. From 1573 to 1584 Haller was a member of the Augsburg merchants' room.

Career

Nikolaus Haller (also Heller, Niclas, Niklas, Nicolaus) was born in Augsburg in November 1539 . From 1573 to 1584 he was a member of the Augsburg merchants' room and after working as a factor for the Fugger in Spain, he was an independent businessman in Augsburg. Archived correspondence between Haller and the Fugger makes it possible to follow his professional activities between the years 1561 and 1584. He exchanged letters with many members of the Fugger family and works for them as a factor (agent: see trading post ) in Genoa, Milan and Spain. Haller was also employed by Duke Wilhelm V of Bavaria and Maximilian II, Emperor of the HRR, for years with foreign tasks, as evidenced by a number of received letters. His membership in the Augsburger Kaufleutestube, whose list of members has been preserved from 1541, also left useful evidence of his professional life. Access to the merchant's room was restricted to birth or marriage. The log book of the Kaufleutestube - it is in the archive of the Augsburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry - records 1140 people in the period from 1541 to 1620.

Hans Fugger
Octavianus Secundus Fugger
Philipp Eduard Fugger
Duke Wilhelm V of Bavaria

1561 Factor for Hans Freiherr Fugger von der Lilie (1531–1598) in Genoa.
Charles IX of France (1550–1574) was crowned on May 15, 1561. At the end of June, Hans Fugger reports to Niklaus Heller in Genoa and a week later to Lodron (probably Gasparo Lodron, born in 1533 - he served as ambassador for Emperor Maximilian II (1527–1676) in Spain and Rome -), that a stately Polish embassy with five carriages had arrived at the imperial court to obtain passports for the intended king to pass through. Henri promised good neighbors and wanted to make sure that the Turks kept peace with the emperor.

1571–1573 Genoa and Milan for Duke Wilhelm V.
Niklas Heller is probably identical with Niklas Haller, cf. Reinhard: Elites. P. 226 (No. 347). According to this, he was born before 1547 and died in 1584. From 1573 to 1584 he was a member of the Augsburger Kaufleutestube. Between 1571 and 1573 he traveled several times on behalf of Duke Wilhelm V (1548–1626) to Genoa and Milan to buy handicrafts and corals . Until his death he can be found again and again in Fugger's services, including in Spain, cf. Karnehm: Correspondence IS 301 (note 1. No. 687).

1571–1579 news supplier for the Bavarian court / 1581 in Spain for Hans Fugger.
See, for example, the letter from Hans Fugger to Heller in Spain of January 20, 1581, Karnehm: Korrespondenz II / IS 804 (No. 1833), in which Hans Fugger first thanks for the newspapers and then for his part passes on news from the Ottoman Empire . Niklas Heller is also verifiable as a news provider for the Bavarian court between 1571 and 1579, cf. Kleinpaul: Intelligence Service. P. 81.

1573–1574 in Genoa.
Charles IX of France on May 30, 1574. Hans Fugger reports little about Henri's coronation in Cracow . But only a few weeks after the death of the French King Charles IX. Hans Fugger writes to Niklas Heller in Genoa that Henri has already been proclaimed king and will return to France. Only a few days later, Fugger wrote to Hieronymus (Gerolamo) von Lodron (1553–1606) that the death of the French king would bring about great changes in all of Christianity and that the emperor might now succeed in securing the Polish crown for one of his sons . See Hans Fugger's letter to Niklas Heller of June 27, 1573 or to Hieronymus von Lodron of July 4, 1573, Karnehm: Korrespondenz. P. 456 (No. 1044) or 465 (No. 1062): Vienna, ÖNB. Cod. 8949 (1568-1573), fol. 444-445. & Cf. letter from Hans Fugger to Niklas Heller (Genoa) of June 15, 1574, Karnehm: Korrespondenz IS 64 (No. 134).

1581 and 1584 in Spain.
Heller took on tasks for Hans Fugger in Spain and Italy. He can be traced back to Spain in 1581 and 1584, but must have been in Augsburg in 1584 and had contact with Octavian Secundus Fugger , as can be seen in a letter from Hans Fugger addressed to him in May 1584. Hans Fugger repeatedly passed on messages in his letters to Heller, just as he received messages from Heller. It can therefore be assumed that Heller also exchanged messages with the Georg Fuggerian heirs.

1583 In a letter that Philipp Eduard Fugger wrote to his brother in July 1583 from the spa town of Zellerbad in the Black Forest (today Bad Liebenzell ), he wrote the following amusing lines through another correspondent: Niclas Heller didn't write anything special to me about this, then in conclusione (...) it was so full that it was not written illegibly, but rather with the time (ung) o himself from Philipen Fugger; has been ain poor wretched merciful writes.

1584 in Spain.
With regard to Heller's apology for his quick departure for Spain, it says that Octavius ​​Secundus Fugger had already explained everything to Hans Fugger, cf. Karnehm: Correspondence II / 2. P. 1128 (No. 2484, letter from Hans Fugger to Niklas Heller dated May 8, 1584). Incidentally, just in September 1584 there is an entry in Octavian Secundus Fugger's book of editions for an errand (the 8th duto Niclaß Heller per dz velles over dz spanisch tuech zalt) that Niklas Heller did for him, cf. FA 1,1,10. fol. 94.

Other messages

  1. Niclas Heller bargain by by the Battista Welschland a Paternoster of coral , which left it sent (3 August 1574) the Duke.
  2. The Augsburg merchant Nicolaus Heller - who had previously been a factor in the Fugger in Spain ... at no. 1658, Heller also gave the Kunstkammer an iron ball that pirates had shot at the ship on ...
  3. The Augsburg merchant Nikolaus Heller received only a small part of the role of ( Heinrich Dax, the Fugger's brother-in-law ) Dax. Heller had previously been a Fugger factor in Spain; we find him working for our duke since the summer of 1571.
  4. ... century a certain type of soft grass was used; After the cut it was kept in carefully knotted bales, an example of which was shot in ... into a ship going to Spain, together with a silk ribbon, with which the prisoners were tied instead of ropes - given by N (icolaus) Heller from Augsburg, who was on the same ship. About Nicolaus Heller, after working as a factor of the Fugger in Spain, self-employed businessman in Augsburg: Seelig, Kunstkammer, note 245. CH I659 (I55I) Turkish leather bowl A Turkish leather bowl with 8 knots of leather inside red, outside blaw, from vergultem foliage unmilled. Turkish leather bowl in eight beads, red inside, blue outside, painted with gilded vegetable decor. Cf. No. 141 1, here probably meant in the appropriate form ("Knorre", "Knorz": solid, spherical piece; Schmeller, Vol. 1, 1872, Col. 1334).

family

Haller's parents were the goldsmith, probably also a councilor in Augsburg, and a member of the Augsburg merchants' room, Hans Haller (* around 1505 in Lautrach ), married to Ursula Pfefferl in Augsburg since April 7, 1528.

Nikolaus Haller was married to Felizitas Vischer (also Fischer) (born between November 11 and December 10, 1540 in Augsburg) in Augsburg on July 15, 1569, daughter of Lukas Vischer (around 1512 in Augsburg; † 1569 in Augsburg ), Brandy and between 1561–1569 member of the Augsburger Kaufleutestube and his wife, Regina Wahl, admin. Vischer, b. Lauterwein from Augsburg.

Six children are known:

  1. Jacobina Haller (* 1570 in Augsburg , † April 1, 1603 in Regensburg) was married to Heinrich I. Erndel on October 17, 1591 (baptized on July 15, 1569 in Regensburg ; buried on June 15, 1623 in Wolfenbüttel ), more imperial Personal and court pharmacist in Prague ;
  2. Regina Haller (* around 1571 in Augsburg , † before 1600 in Augsburg), married since 1587 to the pharmacist and member of the merchant's room, Jeremias Erhard (* around 1561 in Augsburg, † 1627 in Augsburg);
  3. Oktavian Haller (* around 1573 in Augsburg , † after 1625 in Augsburg), goldsmith, jeweler, diamond cutter, member of the blacksmith's guild in 1598, in 1603 he applied unsuccessfully for admission to the merchant's room, 1605–1625 in the merchant's room, married since February 7th 1593 with Anna Schürer;
  4. Dr. Philipp Haller (* around 1575 in Augsburg ), 1600–1604 shop floor, then Mehrer, married to Sabina Manlich since 1604;
  5. Nikolaus Haller (* around 1576 in Augsburg );
  6. Felizitas Haller (born November 1580 in Augsburg ), married to Abraham Leickher since October 5, 1596. They are the parents of (i) Dr. Isaac Leickher (born November 11, 1616 in Augsburg, † 1684 in Dresden ), heir to Lindau, Elector of Saxony. Bailiff of Leipzig, later electoral Saxon. Court and Justician Council, Chamber Court and Kräntz Matters Higher Councilor, also poet and (ii) daughter Sybille Pöllmann geb. Leickher († April 4, 1651 in Dresden); Great-great-grandmother of the Leipzig banker and trader Christian Gottlob Frege (1715–1781).

literature

  • Augsburg Elites of the 16th Century: Prosopography of Economic and Political Leading Groups 1500–1620, edited by Wolfgang Reinhard. Edited by Mark Häberlein, Ulrich Klinkert, Katarina Sieh-Burens and Reinhard Wendt. Academy publishing house. 1996. ISBN 3-05-002861-0
  • Newspapers in front of the newspaper: Die Fuggerzeitungen (1568–1605) und das…, by Oswald Bauer

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IHK, Kaufleutestube, fol. 55
  2. ↑ Augsburg Elites of the 16th Century: Prosopography of Economic and Political Leadership Groups 1500–1620, edited by Wolfgang Reinhard. Edited by Mark Häberlein, Ulrich Klinkert, Katarina Sieh-Burens and Reinhard Wendt. Academy publishing house. 1996. ISBN 3-05-002861-0
  3. ^ Newspapers in front of the newspaper: Die Fuggerzeitungen (1568–1605) und das…, by Oswald Bauer, p. 228
  4. ^ Newspapers in front of the newspaper: Die Fuggerzeitungen (1568–1605) und das…, by Oswald Bauer, p. 228
  5. ^ Newspapers in front of the newspaper: Die Fuggerzeitungen (1568–1605) und das…, by Oswald Bauer, p. 229
  6. ↑ Die Münchner Kunstkammer - Volume 129, Part 3 - Page 36, Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2008
  7. ↑ The Bavarian Renaissance court of Duke Wilhelm V (1568–1579). Berndt Ph. Baader - 1943 and Die Münchner Kunstkammer - Volume 129, Part 3 - Page 36, edited by Dorothea Diemer, Willibald Sauerländer, Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class, Abhandlungen NF 129, Munich 2008, Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Commission at the publishing house CH Beck Munich
  8. ↑ Die Münchner Kunstkammer: Catalog, Volume 2, Willibald Sauerländer, Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2008, manuscript catalogs of the State and City Library Augsburg, Dorothea Diemer - 2008
  9. ↑ Baptismal register, Ev. Luth. Church Regensburg, on www.archion.de
  10. ↑ funeral sermon Heinrich Erndel, Author: Widesburgius, Henricus, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Signature I 273a. 4 ° Helmst. (16)
  11. ↑ Isaac Leickher, a Saxon poet who introduced himself as: 1659 in Leipzig assessor at the court school and 1668 court councilor. (Göttingen, Collect. Stedern. Vin 355, 356, 357, 369, 719). - Isaac Leickhers Von Augspurg Risen JESVS. u. O. u. J. 4 Bl. 4. Alex. (Göttingen, P. 2733).
personal data
SURNAME Haller, Nikolaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heller, Nicolaus; Haller, Niclas; Heller, Niklas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Fugger factor in Genoa, Milan and in Spain
DATE OF BIRTH November 1539
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH 1584
Place of death augsburg