Sebastian Hensel (farmer)

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Sebastian Hensel (1890s)

Sebastian Ludwig Felix Hensel (born June 16, 1830 in Berlin ; † January 13, 1898 there ) was a German landowner, entrepreneur and author, nephew of the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and great-grandson of the entrepreneur and philosopher Moses Mendelssohn .

Life

Sebastian was born on June 16, 1830 as the son of Wilhelm (1794–1861) and Fanny Hensel , geb. Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1805–1847) born in Berlin. He was the only surviving child. Three important composers for Fanny Hensel served as namesake: Uncle Felix, Ludwig van Beethoven and Johann Sebastian Bach . As a birthday present for his first birthday, Sebastian received a cantata for soprano, alto, four-part choir and orchestra from his mother .

After graduating from the agricultural school in Hohenheim in 1852, he acquired the estate in Groß Barthen near Königsberg in 1858 . In the same year he married Julie von Adelson (1836-1901), a daughter of the Russian consul general in Königsberg. They had five children together: Fanny Römer, geb. Hensel (1857-1891), Cécile Leo , b. Hensel (1858–1928), artisan, Paul Hensel (1860–1930), philosopher, Kurt Hensel (1861–1941), mathematician, and Lili du Bois-Reymond , b. Hensel (1864–1948), writer.

The location of the estate in the Pregel lowlands had a negative impact on the health of his family. His relatives suffered from fever attacks, which is why Hensel decided to sell the estate. In Berlin he accepted the position offered to him as director of the newly founded market hall company. The project to centralize and simplify the food supply in Berlin failed after disputes with the authorities. For Hensel the problem lay in the “socialist view that everything might have to be done by the state and the municipality”. Shortly thereafter, the German construction company appointed him to the management and entrusted him with the management of the Berlin hotel company . The main task of the company was the construction of the Grand Hotel Kaiserhof , which opened in 1875. Until 1880 he kept the post in the management, and until 1889 he was head of the German construction company.

He put the story of the Mendelssohns on paper for his family. With the encouragement of many readers, the family history was first printed in 1879.

Honor grave

Sebastian Hensel died in Berlin on January 13, 1898. He was buried in the honorary grave of the State of Berlin for the Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Hensel families in the Trinity Cemetery I in Berlin-Kreuzberg .

Publications

  • The Mendelssohn family, 1729–1847: based on letters and diaries , B. Behr, Berlin 1879.
  • Carl Witt - a teacher and friend of the youth , B. Behr, Berlin 1894.
  • Natural stories for children , S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1896.
  • A picture of life from Germany's apprenticeship years , B. Behr, Berlin 1903, Ed. Paul Hensel .
  • Migratory birds. A fairy tale. Facsimile based on the autograph from 1897. Imprimatur Verlag Rudolf Kring, Lahnstein 2005, ISBN 978-3-9810505-0-9 .

According to his lecture notes, the Roman Imperial History , which had been lost until then, was published by Theodor Mommsen .

  • Theodor Mommsen: Roman imperial history . According to the lecture notes by Sebastian and Paul Hensel 1882/86, ed. by Barbara and Alexander Demandt . CH Beck, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-406-36078-5 .

literature

  • L. Friedlaender: In: Deutsche Rundschau , Volume 99, 1899, pp. 455-463.
  • Cécile Lowenthal-Hensel [arr.]: Prussian portraits of the 19th century. Drawings by Wilhelm Hensel , Nationalgalerie, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-88609-059-0 .

Web links

Commons : Felix Ludwig Sebastian Hensel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cordula Heymann-Wentzel: An unusual birthday present. Fanny Hensel's “Song of Praise” . In: Music and Biography. Festschrift for Rainer Cadenbach , Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2004, ISBN 3-8260-2804-X .
  2. ^ Sebastian Hensel: A picture of life from Germany's apprenticeship years , B. Behr, Berlin 1903, Ed. Paul Hensel.
personal data
SURNAME Hensel, Sebastian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hensel, Sebastian Ludwig Felix (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landowner, entrepreneur and author
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1898
Place of death Berlin