Zacharias Konrad von Uffenbach

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Zacharias Konrad von Uffenbach

Zacharias Konrad von Uffenbach , also Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach (born February 22, 1683 in Frankfurt am Main ; † January 6, 1734 ibid), was a Frankfurt patrician , alderman and councilor. He became known as a travel writer and book collector .

Life

Uffenbach came from a long-established Frankfurt patrician family that belonged to the Zum Frauenstein Society . His father was the Frankfurt merchant and councilor Johann Balthasar von Uffenbach († 1700); Johann Friedrich Armand von Uffenbach was his younger brother.

He first attended the Francofurtanum grammar school and then the grammar school in Rudolstadt , where he lived in the house of the vice-principal and orientalist Johann Ernst Müller. Between school and university he lived briefly again in Frankfurt as a private student of Hiob Ludolf . From 1698 he studied at the University of Strasbourg and from 1700 at the University of Halle , mainly law and moral philosophy. He also carried out historical and geographical studies. He began collecting books in Halle, supported by the nearby Leipzig Book Fair . In 1702 he made his first trip to Dresden and Freiberg . Returned to Halle, he was Gottfried Thomasius to Dr. jur. PhD.

Bookplate , located in 1704 Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach of Johann Ulrich Kraus did make

He had his library transferred to Frankfurt and traveled through Saxony , Thuringia and the Mark Brandenburg . In 1704 he returned to Frankfurt. In the following five years he purposefully expanded his library with books and manuscripts and made them usable through detailed cataloging, in which he was supported from 1713 by the Giessner professor Johann Heinrich May the Younger . He specialized in the fields of history, literary history, incunabula , libri prohibiti , in the case of manuscripts on the learned correspondence and the Frankofurtensien .

In 1705 he made a trip to the Netherlands , from which he brought back books, manuscripts and coins. In the years 1709 to 1711 a trip to Northern Germany, Holland and England followed. In England he visited and described the Hans Sloane collection , which later became an important part of the British Museum . From this trip he brought 4,000 volumes with him, which means that his private library now comprised 12,000 volumes. Italy was also the destination of a trip. On February 2, 1715 he reached Venice , where he attended several opera performances in the Teatro Sant'Angelo , met with Antonio Vivaldi and commissioned ten concerti grossi from him, some of which he purchased. He had to give up the plan to continue the trip to France and Italy because of the War of the Spanish Succession . In 1718 he made his last trip to what is now Belgium .

View of the library in the 1729 catalog
North side of the western Zeil with the Red House , the Palais Böhler built by Uffenbach , the Pasquay House and the Weidenhof , 1793
(oil painting by Johann Ludwig Ernst Morgenstern )

In 1721 he became councilor in Frankfurt, 1727 and 1729 junior mayor , 1730 aldermen . His library grew steadily through purchases, exchanges and gifts. The coin collection was exchanged for books, now replaced by a seal collection. The library was set up in eight rooms of the Palais an der Zeil , which he built and later became Palais Böhler ; the manuscript collection grew to 2,000 volumes and 20,000 letters. Uffenbach was considered "a bookworm in the most learned sense of the word". His manuscript catalog was published in Halle in 1720. He prepared literary and bibliographical excerpts, of which 4 volumes Adversaria ad historiam literariam spectantia are still preserved in the Frankfurt city library , plus a medieval glossary and a collection of abbreviations. He gladly made his library available to visiting researchers and had them entered in a log book . It is preserved in the Hamburg State and University Library .

The last years of his life were marked by "illness and domestic suffering". His only son died as a child; the eldest daughter was "kidnapped" from the parents' house by a cavalry captain von Uechtritz, and the younger daughter, who had supported Uffenbach for years in his work, died in 1733, a few months before him. Uffenbach was, according to his wishes, next to Job Ludolf in the forecourt Katharinenkirche in Frankfurt is buried.

estate

When Uffenbach died at the age of almost 51, his work was only partially completed; he bequeathed it to the preacher and librarian Johann Georg Schelhorn in Memmingen in his will . He published excerpts from the collection of letters and Uffenbach's travel description.

Uffenbach bequeathed his extensive Frankofurtensien collection to the city library. Later it came to the city ​​archives , where it was lost in the air raids on Frankfurt am Main during World War II . The Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library holds 18 volumes of Correspondence from 1706 to 1732 and the four surviving volumes (volumes 3, 5, 6, 7) of the Adversaria .

As early as 1729, Uffenbach sold part of his library with the help of a four-volume catalog published between 1729 and 1731. The Hebrew manuscripts and the collection of letters were acquired by the Hamburg philologist Johann Christoph Wolf in 1731 ; other volumes by his brother Johann Christian Wolf . Both continued the collection of letters and donated it to the Hamburg City Library, the predecessor of today's Hamburg State and University Library , where the Uffenbach-Wolf collection of letters has been preserved to this day.

Nevertheless, after Uffenbach's death there were still so many volumes available that the auction catalog again comprised four volumes. The remainder was also placed in the Hamburg city library in 1749.

Important individual pieces

  • Unzial 0121b , Uncial manuscript of the New Testament from the 10th century, also Codex Ruber or Fragmentum Uffenbachianum , today Hamburg State and University Library
  • Minuscule 101 , Minuscule manuscript of the New Testament from the 11th century, today SLUB Dresden , A. 104
  • Lectionary , fragment, around 1250/60, today Hamburg State and University Library, Cod. In scrin.:1
  • Correspondence of St. Jerome. Cologne, St. Pantaleon, around 1150–1170, today Hamburg State and University Library, Cod. In scrinio 6
  • Historiae Romanorum. around 1280, today Hamburg State and University Library, Cod. in scrin.:151
  • Uffenbach's book of arms , 2nd half of the 15th century, today the State and University Library Hamburg, Ms. in scrinio 90 b

Works

  • De quasi-emancipatione occasione reformationis Francofurtensis. Diss. Hall 1702

Catalogs

  • Bibliotheca Uffenbachiana manuscripta, seu, catalogus et recensio msstorum codicum qui in bibliotheca Zachariae Conradi ab Uffenbach Traiecti ad Moenum adservantur et in varias classes distinguuntur, qvarum priores / Io Henricus Maius fil ..., recensuit reliquas possessor ipse digessilem hari omanc suam ad usus publicos offer. Halae Hermundurorum: impensis Novi bibliopolii, 1720
Digitized
  • Bibliotheca Uffenbachiana apocrypha vel latens.
  • Bibliotheca Uffenbachiana universalis, sive, Catalogus librorum: tam typis quam manu exaratorum, quos summo studio hactenus collegit Zach. Conradus from Uffenbach. 4 volumes, Francofurti ad Moenum: apud Jo. Benj. Andreœ & Henr. Hort., 1729.
Digitized from Volume I, 1729
Digitized from Volume II, 1730
Digitized from Volume III, 1730
Digitized from Volume IV, 1731

Posthumously

  • Commercii epistolici Uffenbachiani selecta cum vita ejusdem. 5 volumes. Ulm and Memmingen 1753–56, digital copies at CAMENA
  • Uffenbach's Strange Travels through Lower Saxony, Holland and England. 3 volumes with copper engravings by Johann Friedrich von Uffenbach. Frankfurt / Leipzig 1753–54

literature

Catalogs

  • Catalogus manuscriptorum codicum bibliothecae Uffenbachianæ. typis B. Diehlii, Francofurti ad Moenum 1747 digitized
  • Ernst Kelchner : The von Uffenbach'schen manuscripts in the city library of Frankfurt a. M. Print by A. Osterrieth, Frankfurt am Main 1860 Digitized
  • Nilüfer Krüger (Ed.): Supellex epistolica Uffenbachi et Wolfiorum. Catalog of the Uffenbach-Wolf letter collection. Hauswedell, Hamburg 1978 (= catalog of the manuscripts of the Hamburg State and University Library, 8)
    1. Catalog of the writers AA to M (ag.?) JG Musculus ISBN 3-7762-0154-1
    2. Catalog from the writers Wolfgang Musculus to Georg Zyrlin, catalog of the addressees, addendum. ISBN 3-7762-0155-X
  • Estate directory (PDF; 17.8 MB), Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library , Frankfurt

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Zacharias Konrad von Uffenbach  - Sources and full texts
Commons : Zacharias Konrad von Uffenbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. S. V
  2. ADB (lit.)
  3. ^ Susan M. Pearce, Alexandra Bounia, Ken Arnold: The collector's voice: critical readings in the practice of collecting . P. 110.
  4. Karl Heller : Antonio Vivaldi, calendar for life and work history . In: Eitelfriedrich Thom (ed.): Studies on performance practice and interpretation of 18th century music . tape 33 . Michaelstein Monastery Foundation, Blankenburg 1987, p. 18th f .
  5. ADB (lit.)
  6. ADB (lit.)
  7. Estate Directory (PDF; 17.8 MB), Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library , Frankfurt
  8. Description
  9. Description ( Memento from February 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ^ Digitized by the Hamburg SUB
  11. The Uffenbach Book of Arms (PDF; 3.8 MB)