Simon Henrich Gondela

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Simon Henrich Gondela (born September 26, 1765 in Bremen , † January 30, 1832 in Heidelberg ) was a lawyer and Senator from Bremen .

biography

Gondela was the son of the city ​​physicist Christian Abraham Gondela (1726–1777) and his wife Anna (1731–1780).
He was married to the syndicate daughter Rahel Christina Catharina Oelrichs (1769–1845); both had no children.

He completed his school days in Eutin , where his parents lived from 1774, and with Professor Johann Adolf Nasser in Kiel. From 1783 he studied law at the University of Kiel and from 1785 at the University of Göttingen and obtained his doctorate in Göttingen in 1788. jur.
He then traveled to Switzerland and then worked as a lawyer in Bremen.
From 1792 to 1816 he was the successor to Daniel Schütte Bremer councilor / senator. He was a friend of Johann Smidt , who was with the Oelrichs family. As senators, Smidt and Gondela were responsible for converting the Bremen ramparts into parks (from 1802). Gondela is also said to have influenced the redesign of part of the Büren-Oelrichs estate in the landscape style. He lived in Bremen on Obernstrasse .

During the French period in Bremen , he was a tribunal judge and vice-president of the court from 1811 to 1813. In 1816 he retired from service in Bremen and moved to Heidelberg.

Between 1819 and 1827 he wrote numerous letters to the southern German writer and first editor Therese Huber . The unpublished correspondence contained references to the forgotten Bremen writer Charlotte Thiesen (1782–1834).

See also

literature

  • Nicola Wurthmann: Senators, friends and families. Rule structures and self-image of the Bremen elite between tradition and modernity (1813–1848) . Self-published by the Bremen State Archives, Bremen 2009, ISBN 978-3-925729-55-3 , ( publications from the State Archives of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen 69), (also: Hamburg, Univ., Diss., 2007).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press office of the Senate: Forgotten Bremen writer rediscovered , Bremen June 16, 2000.
personal data
SURNAME Gondela, Simon Henrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bremen lawyer and senator
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1765
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1832
Place of death Heidelberg