Oscar Louis Tesdorpf

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Oscar Louis Tesdorpf (born July 4, 1854 in Hamburg ; † December 3, 1933 there ) was a German house broker and author .

Life

Oscar Louis Tesdorpf came from the Tesdorpf-Meyer line of the Hanseatic Tesdorpf family , which goes back to Johann Christoph Tesdorpf (1785–1857), landlord of Groß Weeden . He was a son of the Hamburg merchant Theodor Ferdinand Tesdorpf (1816–1893) and his wife Freya Caroline Adolphine, born. by Torp (1820-1900). Oscar Louis Tesdorpf had an older brother, Gustav Theodor Tesdorpf . Ebba Tesdorpf was his cousin and the painter Ilse Tesdorpf-Edens was his great niece.

Grave of Theodor Oscar L. Tesdorpf ,
Ohlsdorf Cemetery, Hamburg

Tesdorpf attended Wichard Lange's private secondary school and was then an apprentice in his father's trading house and in London .

In 1875/76 he served as a one-year volunteer in the Hussar Regiment "Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands" (Hannoversches) No. 15 in Wandsbek ; In 1877 he was appointed lieutenant in the reserve.

From 1878 he was a partner in his father's business. In 1885 he became an honorary judge at the commercial court . He was also a civil deputy in the Hamburg building deputation.

In 1881 Tesdorpf married Marie Elisabeth Wentzel. The couple had a daughter and two sons.

Oscar Louis Tesdorpf was buried in Hamburg in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in grid square T 26 (south of Kapellenstrasse, east of Waldstrasse ).

Publications

Tesdorpf presented publications on topics from the areas of genealogy , cultural history and species protection .

genealogy

Together with Eduard Lorenz Lorenz-Meyer , Oscar Louis Tesdorpf wrote a book on Hamburg family history research and heraldry . The history of the Tesdorpf family was also one of his areas of interest. Tesdorpf's daughter Elise was married to Paul de Chapeaurouge .

Cultural history

Tesdorpf's work on the Lübeck syndic Joachim Carstens makes a contribution to research into the cultural history of the 17th century .

Species protection

At the suggestion of Alfred Brehm , Tesdorpf obtained the settlement of mouflons in Göhrde and Harzgerode at the beginning of the 20th century . Also on this subject published it.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johannes Gerhardt: Eduard Lorenz Lorenz-Meyer , p. 42 , accessed on August 12, 2016.
  2. ↑ Hamburg State Calendar 1895, p. 69.
  3. ^ Eduard Lorenz Lorenz-Meyer / Oscar Louis Tesdorpf: Hamburg coat of arms and genealogies . Self-published by the author, Hamburg 1890. ( digitized version )
  4. ↑ Oscar Louis Tesdorpf: Mittheilungen about the Tesdorpf'sche sex . Knorr & Hirth-Verlag , Munich 1887. ( digitized version )
  5. ↑ Oscar Louis Tesdorpf: The main registry or secret book of the Lübeck Syndic Dr. Joachim Carstens: a contribution to research into the cultural history of the 17th century, with an appendix to documents and Carstens' genealogy . Rathgens, Lübeck 1898.
  6. ^ Mouflon , accessed on August 12, 2016.
  7. ↑ 110 years of mouflon in the Harz Mountains , accessed on August 12, 2016.
  8. ^ Oscar Louis Tesdorpf: Naturalization of the mouflon (Mouflons) on the European mainland , self-published by the author, Hamburg 1910.
personal data
SURNAME Tesdorpf, Oscar Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German house broker and author
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH December 3, 1933
Place of death Hamburg