Peter Gayer

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The demolished monastery church of Marienthal am Donnersberg, sepia drawing by Peter Gayer, around 1830
Ruins of the Peterskirche Speyer around 1830; Sepia drawing by Peter Gayer
Peter Gayer, unfinished drawing of the Speyer Cathedral (with baroque westwork)
Peter Gayer, Reipoltskirchen Castle (second oldest known depiction of the ruin)

Peter Gayer , baptized name Peter Otto Bernhardt Franz (born August 2, 1793 in Koblenz , † August 18, 1836 in Speyer ) was a Bavarian civil servant, archivist for the Rhine District in Speyer, draftsman, engraver and historian .

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He was the son of the Koblenz tax director and mayor Johann Dominik Gayer and his wife Maria Gertrud Cordula Seitenburg.

Peter Gayer became head of the government registry of the Bavarian Rhine District in Speyer in 1819 . In 1820 he was promoted to manager on 17 September 1823 as head of the county archive in Speyer - today's National Archives.

The Rhine District, which was newly founded in 1816, was made up of many former rulers and most of the archive material was outsourced or dispersed. Gayer began to sift through the holdings, to organize them and to create finding aids for use.

It was important to him not only to conserve the archive holdings and keep them available for administrative purposes, but also to make them accessible to historians as far as possible.

In 1827 he was one of the founding members of the Palatinate Historical Society as a person with a strong historical interest .

What Peter Gayer has made of timeless importance for the Palatinate are his drawings that he made in his capacity as a historian of old churches and other buildings that were in danger of being demolished and which are often the only surviving images. He benefited from the fact that he was an excellent draftsman and engraver . His building representations are very detailed, but sometimes embedded in romanticizing accessories, typical of the time.

In 1822 Peter Gayer married Johanna Amalia Ehrmann, the daughter of the Speyer District Medical Council Christian Ehrmann called Stellwag, the adoptive son of the physician and Goethe friend Johann Christian Ehrmann , who had been cared for as private tutor by the later Speyer bishop and Cologne Cardinal Johannes von Geissel .

The couple had 4 sons who they left behind as orphans when they died early in 1835 and 1836, respectively. They were raised by grandfather Johann Dominik Gayer in Koblenz. The eldest of these sons was Karl Gayer (1822–1907), professor of forestry and rector of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . His ennobled son Alexander von Gayer (1852-1917) became head of the Palatinate Railways .

Peter Gayer grandson Hans Gayer (1884-1964) was the commander of the airship L 49 (LZ 96) in the First World War .

Peter Gayer's brother-in-law was the Bavarian-Greek State Councilor Max Frey ; his son, the poet Martin Greif (1839–1911), his nephew.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Page about the Koblenz mayors, including Johann Dominik Gayer, from 1808 to 1811
  2. ^ Appointment as district archivist in Speyer
  3. ↑ On Gayer's work on the archive materials
  4. ↑ On the work on the archives of the city of Speyer in the district archive
  5. ↑ On the intention of Gayer's archive work
  6. ↑ To the Historical Association of the Palatinate ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2011 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.museum.speyer.de
  7. ↑ On the drawing of old churches in the Bavarian Rhine District
  8. ↑ On Geissel's work in the Ehrmann house
  9. ^ Josef Nikolaus Köstler:  Gayer, Karl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 109 f. ( Digitized version ).
  10. ^ About Hans Gayer as airship commander
  11. ^ French page on L 49 and its commander Hans Gayer
  12. ↑ English website for L 49, with photo Gayers
  13. ^ Supplement to the Official and Intelligenes Gazette of the Rhine District , No. 1, of January 2, 1836, p. 2 of the year; Digital scan to the relatives from his wife's side
personal data
SURNAME Gayer, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gayer, Peter Otto Bernhardt Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Palatinate-Bavarian civil servant, district archivist and painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1836
Place of death Speyer