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Pedro (Peter) Gabe , also Pedro Gabe de Massarellos , (born January 26, 1778 in Massarelos , † May 12, 1831 in Paris ) was a businessman , writer and diplomat .

Live and act

Tomb for Pedro Gabe de Massarellos, Paris, Père Lachaise.

Pedro Gabe was the second son of the businessman Johann Gabe and his wife Franziska Felicia Hitchcock (1746-1820). He had two brothers and two younger sisters. After his birth in Portugal , he lived with his mother in Porto for a few years , and later for longer periods in Lisbon , London and Paris . Then it moved its residence to Hamburg , where its father ran a trading house. But Gabe, who was fond of literature, theater and beautiful women, was reluctant to work in his father's company in the following years, and so his younger brother Heinrich finally became his business successor after his father's death.

Pedro Gabe was married to Sophia Luisa Wilhelmina Lavezzari (1791-1887) from Cremona since 1810 . Her father, Carlo Lavezzari, was a businessman in Hamburg. In 1817 Gabe received the post of Royal Portuguese Consul General with the Hanseatic cities. He succeeded Duarte Nunes da Costa and Johannes Schuback as the third Portuguese consul in Hamburg. Gabe had good relations with Portuguese Jews who lived in Hamburg and Schwerin . This included in particular the Pardo family, who had specialized in trading in Central America and the Caribbean.

In addition to Portuguese, Gabe also spoke and written German, English, French, Spanish and Italian. From a young age he wrote poems in Portuguese, English and French that are no longer known today. Because he wanted to bring his mother tongue closer to the people of Hamburg, in 1809 he wrote an anthology of Portuguese writers with the title "Pequena crestomatia portuguesa". For the work, which was published by F. H. Nestler, Gabe translated part of the poem Caramuru by José de Santa Rita Durão into German for the first time . He also created a German grammar for German readers and translated parts of Luís de Camões' Lusiads .

Pedro Gabe died in Paris in May 1831 and was buried there in the Père Lachaise cemetery.

family

Several years after Gabe's death, his wife was forcibly committed to the Illenau psychiatry on June 24, 1842 , where Sophia Luisa Wilhelmina was housed until 1849. Together with her nephew Adolf Ebeling , she published her experiences in 1851 under the title A mother in a madhouse. Contribution to the moral history of our time on paper. This case, which at the instigation of Gabe's widow in Hamburg, was also heard in court, became known throughout Germany as the "Illenauer psychiatry scandal" from the beginning of the 1850s. Heinrich Heine , largely related to the Gabe family, described the events in a letter to his mother dated June 7, 1851 as a “scandalous story” and saw the family “threatened with infamy”. The theater writer Friedrich Wagener wrote the play A mother in a madhouse about it that same year . In 1852, the attorney Carl Wilhelm Biesterfeld from Hamburg published all available documents including personal correspondence.

Pedro Gabe and Sophia Luisa Wilhelmina had three sons and four daughters, including a daughter Maria (1820-1901). She married Egas Barreto Moniz de Aragão. Her husband was from Bahia and was a Brazilian diplomat.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cornelia Brink: Limits of the Institution , pp. 36–41.
predecessor Office successor

Johannes Schuback (until 1808)
José Anselmo Corrêa Henriques 		Portuguese chargé d'affaires in the Hanseatic cities
1817 to 1818
1822 to 1823
José Anselmo Corrêa Henriques
João António Ramos Nobre
personal data
SURNAME Gabe, Pedro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gabe, Peter; Gabe de Massarellos, Pedro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Businessman, writer and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1778
PLACE OF BIRTH Massarelos
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1831
Place of death Paris