Pagenstecher (family)

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Pagenstecher is the name of a family of lawyers and scholars from Westphalia.

history

The family comes from Warendorf in Westphalia , where it is documented for the first time in 1415 with Cordt Pagensteker. According to recent sources, Joachim Pagensteker, named in older family records as the progenitor, who is said to have lived in Warendorf around 1360, cannot be traced.

The uninterrupted line of trunks begins in 1457 with Cort Pagensteker, 1480 Gildemeister der Wandmacher ("wall" stands for "garment"; meaning the guild of cloth cutters and traders) in Warendorf. The business of processing and trading cloth is so profitable that in the second half of the 15th century it enabled the family to rise to the ruling bourgeoisie of the city and to gain access to higher education: Henrich Pagensteker became a student in Erfurt in 1476 mentioned. The son of the Gildemeister, Cort Pagenstecher, Wullner and Kaufmann, was councilor in Warendorf several times between 1507 and 1521.

With his sons Carsten († 1574) and Everwin († 1573), the family is divided into the older and younger line that still exists today.

Older line

E. A. O. C. Pagenstecher, lawyer, principal of the High School in Herborn
Johann Pagenstecher, 1689–1703 Mayor of Osnabrück

With Johann Pagenstecher (1575–1650), grandson of Carsten, who accepted the Reformed Calvinist creed around 1595, this line entered the service of the Counts of Bentheim in Burgsteinfurt in 1602 . During the next 120 years, he and many of his descendants established the reputation of the Pagenstecher family of lawyers and scholars at the high school there as well as at various universities in the Netherlands, which were also oriented towards Calvinism. Due to the denominational-dynastic connections between the Nassau-Orange Netherlands and the Nassau ancestral home, the Groningen-born great-grandson of Johann Pagenstecher, Ernst Alexander Otto Cornelius Pagenstecher (1697-1752), was appointed to the High School in Herborn in 1722 . From his descendants in the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century numerous physicians emerged, including the brothers Alexander Pagenstecher (1828–1878) and Hermann Pagenstecher (1844–1932) from the Wiesbaden branch through the establishment of the poor eye care institution and Treatment successes in ophthalmology enjoy an international reputation. As an ophthalmologist, Hermann visited the English Queen Victoria , who wrote in her diary on May 7, 1899 in Windsor Castle :

“Professor Pagenstecher, the famous German Occulist, lives in the Cumberland Lodge . He said that he found my eyes not worse, but on the contrary better than last, which is a great encouragement. "

Alexander and Hermann's cousin Arnold Pagenstecher (1837–1913) is a respected ear doctor, entomologist and honorary citizen of the city of Wiesbaden . Other personalities come from the Elberfeld branch, such as the member of the Frankfurt National Assembly , Heinrich Carl Alexander Pagenstecher (1799–1869), the zoologist Heinrich Alexander Pagenstecher (1825–1889), the archaeologist Rudolf Pagenstecher (1879–1921) and the heraldist Wolfgang Pagenstecher (1880-1953).

Younger line

The younger line of the Pagenstecher family can be traced back to Osnabrück in 1585 . There he rose to high offices, such as Johann Pagenstecher (1628–1719), long-time second mayor and Albrecht Pagenstecher (1800–1863), city judge and syndic. In the second half of the 18th century, the office of the Royal British and Brunswick-Lüneburg postmaster was in the family (Gabriel Pagenstecher (1708–1786) and Heinrich Pagenstecher (1765–1804)). Rudolf Pagenstecher (1802–1889), who at the time was the “only bourgeois lieutenant general in Prussia” and his sons, Rudolf (1838–1903) and Adolf (1846–1900), both Prussian major general, also emerged from this postmaster branch . The merchant Albrecht Pagenstecher (1839–1926) went to the United States of America ( New York ) in 1859 and introduced the wood grinding process there. He is considered one of the pioneers in the North American paper industry. The parapsychologist Gustav Pagenstecher (1855–1942) and the Swiss pharmacist Johann Pagenstecher (1783–1856), who isolated salicylaldehyde from meadowsweet around 1828, come from other branches of the younger line .

The members of the Pagenstecher family now live in Germany, the United States of America and Australia. As far as living in Germany, they belong predominantly to the Evangelical Reformed Confession; the bearers of the Wiesbaden branch who are alive today are Roman Catholic.

Family archive

The entire archive of the Pagenstecher family has been in the Warendorf district archive since 1974 . It is fully indexed and accessible for use and, in addition to a large number of bequests from family members, also contains the annual family notices.

Meaning of the name

The name comes from Middle Low German and is made up of "Pag (h) e" for horse and the word "ste (c) ker", which is derived from the verb "stechen" or "stecken". The relevant etymological name books refer to one or more of the following interpretations, according to which it is a designation for someone who:

  • works, lives, or is the owner of a horse paddock (Pagenstecke, Pagenstake, Pagenstege) (name of origin)
  • annoying as a hornet (Pagensteker) is (mock name)
  • Horses slaughtered or neutered (professional name)

None of the name books gives a source for the above-mentioned interpretations of the name that fits the place of origin and the period in which this family name was formed and adopted (Westphalia in the 14th – 15th centuries). The name for a foal trimmer also seems to have only been attested since the 20th century. The quite different interpretations also suggest that the above-mentioned interpretations are conclusions by analogy based on other, similarly composed names, whose contemporary meaning is better documented. On the other hand, in the 14th century, not far from Warendorf near Münster, there is a property called "Pagenstege". This supports the assumption that it is originally a name of origin.

In Lüneburg a similar name is mentioned in the 13th and 14th centuries: “Peckestoc” also “Paghenstoke”, without any genealogical connection with the family described here.

coat of arms

Blazon : “Divided by blue over silver, above a growing , soaring, gold-winged, silver Pegasus , below a green, three-leaved holly branch. On the blue helmet with a blue-silver bead and the same cover, the growing Pegasus. "

The coat of arms appears for the first time in the above-mentioned form in the seal of the Count of Bentheim Chancellor, Dr. jur. Johann Pagenstecher (1575–1650), on a document dated June 25, 1631.

Streets, paths and public facilities

A total of 7 streets and paths in Germany were named after the gender or members of the gender, namely in Osnabrück , Wallenhorst, Wiesbaden, Wuppertal, Warendorf, Hennef (Sieg) and Steinfurt.

In the United States, there is also a Pagenstecher Pulp Museum in Lake Luzerne, NY, which commemorates the founder of commercial paper making in America using the wood pulp process, Albrecht Pagenstecher. Also in the state of New York is a Pagenstecher Park in Cornwall-on-Hudson, which was donated in 1937 by Bertha Pagenstecher, a daughter of Albrecht Pagenstecher, in memory of her parents.

Personalities

Older line:

  • Johann Pagenstecher (1575–1650), lawyer, professor at the high school in Steinfurt
  • Alexander Arnold Pagenstecher (1659–1716), lawyer, professor at the Universities of Duisburg and Groningen
  • Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Pagenstecher (1686–1746), lawyer, professor at the Universities of Marburg and Harderwijk

Wiesbaden branch:

  • Friedrich Pagenstecher (1793–1865), Hessisch Naussauischer Oberforstrat in Wiesbaden.
  • Alexander Pagenstecher (1828–1879), founder and director of the ophthalmic institute 1856–1879 in Wiesbaden.
  • Hermann Pagenstecher (1844–1932), director of the ophthalmological institution 1880–1909 in Wiesbaden.
  • Max Pagenstecher (1874–1952), lawyer in Frankfurt and Hamburg.
  • Arnold Pagenstecher (1837–1913), ear specialist and entomologist in Wiesbaden.
  • Ernst Pagenstecher (1913–1984), ministerial director, agronomist and interpreter of Buddhism.

Elberfeld branch:

Younger line:

  • Johann Pagenstecher (1783–1856), pharmacist and pharmacist, isolated salicylaldehyde from meadowsweet around 1828, Bern.
  • Albrecht Pagenstecher (1800–1863), lawyer and administrative mayor in Osnabrück.
  • Albrecht Pagenstecher (1839–1926), businessman, introduced the wood pulp process in the United States in 1867 in Cornwall on Hudson , New York.
  • Ludovic Pagenstecher (1849–1930), wholesale merchant, Belgian consul, Haiti, in Hamburg since 1891.
  • Gustav Pagenstecher (1855–1942), parapsychologist, developed the impregnation theory, Mexico City.

literature

General:

About the name:

  • Albert Heintze : The German family names. 7th edition. Bookshop of the orphanage, Halle 1927.
  • Adolf Bach: Register tape. Winter, Heidelberg 1956 ( German onomatology. Volume 3).
  • Josef K. Brechenmacher : Etymological dictionary of German family names. Starke, Limburg 1963.
  • Hans Bahlow: German name dictionary. Keyser, Munich 1967.
  • Wilhelm Kohl, Helmut Müller, Klaus Scholz: The old cathedral St. Pauli monastery in Münster. In: Germania sacra. Department 3. The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Cologne. The Diocese of Münster 1955. 1955, p. 209.

Web links

Commons : Pagenstecher (Family)  - Collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Queen Victoria's Journals , Princess Beatrice's copies, Volume 109, p. 59
  2. ^ Family archive Pagenstecher in the district archive
  3. ↑ http://www.cornwall-on-hudson.com/article.cfm?page=712
  4. ↑ Biography Johann Pagenstecher ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the university website @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stenvorde.de
  5. ↑ Biography of Alexander Arnold Pagenstecher ( Memento of the original from October 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the university website @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stenvorde.de
  6. ↑ Biography Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Pagenstecher ( Memento of the original from October 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the university website @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stenvorde.de