Peter Heinrich the Elder Ä. Blanckenhagen

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Peter Heinrich the Elder Ä. Blanckenhagen (* 3. October 1723 in Tallinn , † 7. January 1794 in Riga ) was an in Baltics living Kaufmann and elder of Great Guild of Riga. His widow Eva Maria, a née Grote, was raised to the imperial aristocracy together with her three sons and entered into the registers of the Livonian knighthood .

Life

Peter Heinrich the Elder Ä. completed his commercial apprenticeship in Reval and was employed in the van der Hooft shop in Amsterdam around 1744 . From around 1750 he worked as a merchant in Riga and was elected dockman in 1761 . In 1763 he took over the office of elder in the Great Guild . From 1784 to 1786 he worked as an assessor in the Livonian government council and was appointed college assessor. From 1780 he was a landlord on Allasch and Yudash .

Origin and family

Coat of arms of the von Blanckenhagen family

Peter Heinrich came from the Pomeranian merchant family Blanckenhagen , who had settled in Reval. His father was the merchant and elder of the Great Guild in Riga Simon V. Blanckenhagen (1690-1735), who was married to Agneta von Glehn. His brothers were Simon Johann Blanckenhagen (1725-1790), who was a merchant in Amsterdam, and Theophilius Christian Blanckenhagen († 1814), who was also a merchant in London .

On June 29, 1759, Peter Heinrich married Eva Maria Grote (1742–1796) who, after his death on August 21, 1795, was raised to the imperial nobility together with her three sons. Thus, Peter Heinrich Blanckenhagen is considered the progenitor of the Baltic noble family, with the nobility predicate "von Blanckenhagen" and carried his noble coat of arms . Her descendants were:

  • William of Blanckenhagen (10 May * 1761 in Riga, † 12 June 1840 in Allasch (Allaži)), Mr. on Aahof, Bellenhof and Allasch, ennoblement on August 21, 1794 ∞ Catherine Klatzo (* 1764)
  • Johann Christian von Blanckenhagen (* March 14, 1764; † 1816 in Bath , England ), merchant in Amsterdam∞ Martha Harden (* 1765)
  • Peter Heinrich the Elder J. von Blanckenhagen (* June 10, 1765; † January 4, 1802 in Heilbronn ) Herr auf Drobbusch , nobilized on August 21, 1794 ∞ Jeanna Elisabeth Arlaud (* 1769 in Geneva ; † 1819 in Montpellier )

Matzos

Peter Heinrich Blanckenhagen owned a large coin collection , among his exhibits were mainly thalers which were partly on display in Holland and partly in the art museum of the University of Dorpat, today the University of Tartu . For this purpose he also created an extensive work, which represents the directory of the Thaler and coin collection. The historian Christoph Gottlob Heinrich thanked him in the opening credits of his book "Teutsche Reichsgeschichte" with the words:

"Allow me, venerable patron, to dedicate a book to you, the content of which you, as history lovers and coin connoisseurs, cannot be indifferent to, and to take this opportunity to say publicly how much I thank you in more than one respect […] Heaven bless you for this with a long and highly satisfied life, according to the wish of everyone who knows and honors you. As long as I live, I am your obedient servant Chr. Gottl with unlimited respect and devotion. Heinrich. Jena, May 3rd, 1787 "

- Christoph Gottlieb Heinrich

From his fortune, Peter Heinrich d. Ä. 40,000 Albertustaler , which enabled the establishment of the Livonian non-profit and economic partnership. The Livonian non-profit and economic society was the first non-profit and economic, i.e. H. agricultural in the Baltic provinces of the old Russian Empire.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "In every guild, the citizens who do not belong to the bank of elders, according to their common affairs, have a special spokesman and representative named Dockmann". From the constitution of the municipalities in the Baltic Sea Governments , number 1084-1087 [1] , page 146, accessed on January 30, 2018
  2. ↑ "The bank of elders of the large guild consists of an elderly man, who presides over it, and 39 elders [...] The bank of elders of the small guild consists of an elderly man, who presides over it, and 29 elders." From the constitution of the municipalities in the Baltic Sea Governments, number 1089-1094 [2] , page 147, accessed January 30, 2018
  3. ↑ Judasch lv: Rīgas apriņķa muižu nosaukumi # Muižu nosaukumi (pēc 1925. gada)
  4. ^ Merchant Theophilius Christian Blanckenhagen. See: Margrit Schulte Beerbühl, German Merchants in London: World Trade and Naturalization (1660–1818), Volume 61 of Publications of the German Historical Institute London / Publications of the German Historical Institute London, Verlag Walter de Gruyter , 2007; ISBN 3486707639 , page 204, [3] , accessed January 27, 2018
  5. ↑ Art Museum of the University of Tartu [4]
  6. ↑ editor L. v. Bergmann, 1st edition 1799, 2nd edition 1805
  7. ↑ Christoph Gottlob Heinrich, Full Professor of History in Jena, dedicated the text: German Imperial History, Part One, Leipzig to Weidmanns Erben und Reich, to the very well-born, Mr. Peter Heinrich Blanckenhagen, Russian Imperial Councilor and Assessor at the Gouvernements-Magistrat zu Riga, 1787, original from the Austrian National Library , digitized December 1, 2015 [5]
  8. ↑ Hubertus Neuschäffer: The beginnings of the Livonian economic society (1792-1939) . In: Journal of Baltic Studies , Vol. 10 (1979), pp. 337-344.
personal data
SURNAME Blanckenhagen, Peter Heinrich the Elder Ä.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blanckenhagen, Peter Heinrich the Elder Ä .; Grote, Peter Heinrich the Elder Ä. (Birth Name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baltic merchant
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1723
PLACE OF BIRTH Reval
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1794
Place of death Riga