Rudolf Bornemann (Mint Master)

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Rudolf Bornemann (also: Rudolph Bornemann ; * February 20 or March 2, 1650 in Zellerfeld in the Harz Mountains ; † August 6, 1711 there ) was a German mint master and local politician .

Life

Rudolf Bornemann was a son of the lawyer and working in Zellerfeld tithe former Martinus Bornemann , who later as chamberlain at the court of Hanover had, and Anna Elisabeth Hekenberg, daughter of a prince engaged in Osterode Brunswick-Lüneburg iron factor Heinrich Hekenberg and his wife Lucia Nergen. His paternal grandparents were the Osteroder Kaufmann and councilor Tilo Bornemann and his wife Anna Pilgrim.

After his baptism, Bornemann was raised by his parents, who then had him instructed in “fundamentis pietatis & studijs humanioribus” in Hanover and then in Kirchberg with the young Joachim Wilhelm von Campen . Then he learned the tasting and coinage for three years with the mint master Henning Schlüter, who worked in Clausthal, and then went on a study trip to the mining and smelting works and the mints in Saxony , before going back to his parents in Hanover.

From 1670 to 1673 Bornemann initially worked as a mint in Clausthal , before he was appointed mint master of Hanover at the age of 23 by Duke Johann Friedrich in 1673, before he worked for the mint from 1676 - and initially for half a year Hanover - worked as Communion mint master in Zellerfeld until 1711. At times parallel to this, he worked from 1685 to 1704 in Goslar and from 1686 to 1708 in local politics as councilor and treasurer or senator in Zellerfeld.

Bornemann's mint master's mark was RB .

Years before his death, an increasing weakness spread over Rudolf Bornemann, which could be seen in his body and face. For a long time he took medication and underwent a cure with acidic well water from Pyrmont . This temporarily stabilized his condition, but he soon suffered from stomach problems and various mutually related and aggravating diseases, which the Bergmedicus Wilhelm Mechov treated with different methods. Bornemann died at the age of over 61. He was buried on August 11, 1711 in Zellerfeld.

After Bornemann's death, in the quarters of Crucis and Lucia in 1711, two commissioners were in charge of Communion coinage: The Hüttenraiter Georg Julius Töpfer and the Münzwardein Johann Albrecht Brauns provided the mintings made under them with the mint mark C for “Commission”. They were followed on November 28, 1711 by Heinrich Horst as Communion Mintmaster.

family

In the year he was appointed mint master in Zellerfeld, Bornemann got engaged on April 2, 1676, on the advice of his parents, to the then virgin Catharine Elisabeth Kukucks or Katharina Elisabeth Kuckuck († 1687), daughter of the Electoral Chamberlain, Franz Kuckuck, and his first wife Katharine , née Schlotheuer. After the wedding in Hanover, the couple had their daughter Margarete Johanne born on October 26, 1684, who married the forest clerk Georg Christoph Knackstedt in Zellerfeld, but died soon afterwards. Of Bornemann's five daughters, two died in early childhood, the other three married, but only two of them survived their father.

On August 28, 1688 Bornemann married his second wife in Hanover, the then maiden Marie Margarethe Klauen, daughter of the lawyer and attorney at law, Heinrich Klauen. His second wife raised her stepchildren and gave birth to two other daughters, one of whom also died in early childhood and the second was able to stand on her father's deathbed.

Bornemann was the father of 7 children and the grandfather of 6 grandchildren.

Correspondence in the Leibniz Edition

Handwritten letters have been received from Bornemann. So he wrote

Well-known works (selection)

literature

  • Caspar Calvör : Pessimum Optimum The worst, the best ... Bey handsome corpse procession of ... Fr. Margarethen Johan [n] en Knackstedts, Bornemann's Born, When the same ... in the prime of the years ... give up her life Muste, In a Christian Leich-Sermon ... In the Salvatoris-Kirche zum Zellerfelde auff dem Hartz, was April 29th, 1708. / Shown and requested for printing by Casparem Calvör, Communion-Superintendent there , Clausthal, printed by Jac. Wilcken , Chur-Prince. privil. Buchdr., 1708; Digitized version of the Göttingen State and University Library (SUB)
  • Heinrich Philipp Guden : The unmoved patience and hope of the believing children of God To good Andencken Des ... Rudolph Bornemans been Chur and high prince. Communion-Müntz-Master, as well as Rahts relatives here, to the Zellerfelde, which ... August 6th. 1711 ... fell asleep ... at the ... mourning meeting in local S. Salvatoris churches ... / by Heinrico Philippo Gudenio , Clausthal: Clausthal, printed with Wilckische Schrifften [Jakob Wilcke] , 1733; Digital copy of the SUB

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bornemann, Rudolf in the German biography
  2. ↑ a b Gerhard Schön (Ed.) Bornemann, Rudolf in: Biographisches Lexikon der Münzmeister, Wardeine, Stampschneider and Medailleure
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Information in the personal and correspondence database of the Leibniz Edition of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h Heinrich Philipp Guden: Personalia , in ders .: The immovable patience and hope of the believing children of God To good Andencken Des ... Rudolph Bornemans ... , Clausthal: Jakob Wilcke, 1733; [33 ,% 22view% 22:% 22thumbnails% 22} digitized version] of the State and University Library Göttingen (SUB)
  5. ↑ a b Information in the museum-digital project with reference to https://ikmk.smb.museum/object?id=18232502 , 09.09.2018
  6. ^ A b c Gustav Heyse : Contributions to the knowledge of the Harz Mountains, its history, literature and its coinage. A series of treatises , 2nd, very increased edition, published by L. Schnooks Buchhandlung, Aschersleben and Leipzig 1874, p. 101; Digitized via Google books
  7. ↑ Journal of the Harz Association for History and Antiquity , Vol. 46–47 (1913); Preview over google books
  8. ↑ [objektkatalog.gnm.de/objekt/Med4042 information on medal number 4042]
personal data
SURNAME Bornemann, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bornemann, Rudolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German coin mint, mint master, councilor and treasurer
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1650 or March 2, 1650
PLACE OF BIRTH Zellerfeld
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1711
Place of death Zellerfeld