Jakob Salomon Bartholdy
Jakob Ludwig Salomon Bartholdy ( born May 13, 1779 in Berlin, † July 27, 1825 in Rome) was a Prussian diplomat.
He was the son of wealthy Jewish parents, studied since 1796 in Hall 's rights and then devoted himself to general studies. Since 1801, he spent several years in Paris, then traveled to Italy and Greece, where his signature fragments to approach knowledge of modern Greece (Berlin 1805), stirred, and in 1805 was in Dresden Protestant, taking its original name Salomon with the name Bartholdy interchanged.
As 1809 broke the fifth coalition war against Napoleon, Bartholdy fought for Austria as a first lieutenant in the Vienna Landwehr. The fruit of this time is his writing The War of the Tyrolean people in 1809 (Berlin 1814).
Employed in 1813 in the office of the Prince von Hardenberg, 1814, he accompanied the allied armies to Paris and went from there to London. On the way he made the acquaintance of Cardinal Ercole Consalvi, with whom he remained constantly in touch and whose life he described (Stuttgart 1824).
At the Congress of Vienna, he was frequently employed; In 1815 he came to Rome as Prussian consul general for Italy. In 1818 he attended the congress in Aachen and was a Privy Councillor of Legation Chargé d'Affaires at the Tuscan court.
1825 retired, he died on 27 July of the same year in Rome and was buried in the pyramid of Cestius. He was an uncle of Felix Mendelssohn, who took the second name Bartholdy from him. In 1815 he left a room he rented the Palazzo Zuccari frescoes by Peter von Cornelius, Friedrich Overbeck, Wilhelm von Schadow and Philipp Veit decorate the Joseph story. The frescoes of the "Casa Bartholdy ", which were sold in 1867 by the Zuccari family at the Old National Gallery in Berlin, regarded as a major work of Nazarene art. 1904 acquired the patron Henriette Hertz the palace; now here is the Bibliotheca Hertziana.
Salomon Bartholdy valuable collection of Etruscan vases, bronzes, ivory and Majolikabildern etc. was acquired for the Museum in Berlin.