Overbeck (Hanseatic family)

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King Street 76 in Lubeck
birthplace Friedrich Overbeck
Roeckstraße 2 in Lübeck's
country house of Senator
Christian Theodor Overbeck

The Overbeck are a Hanseatic family , that of Georg Christian Overbeck (1713–1786), lawyer and consultant of the Schonenfahrerkollegium , and his wife Eleonora Maria Jauch (1732–1797), daughter of Canon Johann Christian Jauch (1702–1788), in the free Imperial and Hanseatic City of Lübeck was founded. The Overbeck are one of those “ genius and talent families ” who “gave Lübeck its intellectual character through three to four generations”. Alongside Thomas Mann, the painter Friedrich Overbeck (1789–1869) is one of the city's most famous sons. He worked in Rome from 1810 to 1869 and triggered such a cult that “the art-loving German believed he hadn’t seen Rome if he couldn’t talk about Overbeck at home.” His father Christian Adolph Overbeck (1755–1821) belonged with Georg Heinrich Sieveking and Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus on the " central exponents of the North German Enlightenment "

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  1. Ahasver von Brandt : Spirit and politics in the history of Lübeck: 8 chapters of the foundations of historical greatness , Lübeck 1954, p. 40.
  2. Journal of Swiss archeology and art history , volumes 62–63, 2005, p. 83 on the 'pilgrimages' to Overbeck as part of the genius cult of the time.
  3. Johann Nepomuk Sepp : Commemorative speech on Friedrich Overbeck , quoted from: Landshuter Zeitung 1870 No. 2, p. 7
  4. Barbara Richter: Franz Heinrich Ziegenhagen: Life, Work and Work of a Committed Merchant and Philanthropist in the Age of Enlightenment , 2003, p. 153.