Eric Bollman

Justus Erich Bollmann ( born March 10, 1769 in Hoya on the Weser, † December 10, 1821 in Kingston, Jamaica ) was a physician, politician and entrepreneur.

Bollmann, son of a wealthy merchant, studied medicine in Göttingen and went in 1792 after he had graduated, to Paris to settle here as a doctor.

The French Revolution defeated this intention. At the request of Madame de Stael, whose acquaintance he had made, he saved her lover in August, the Minister of War Narbonne, from the persecution of the Jacobins to England. On the other hand failed to be, undertaken in autumn 1793 attempt to rescue the Marquis de La Fayette from his prison in Olomouc. For this he was arrested by the Prussian authorities and sentenced in 1794 to one month in prison.

Bollmann went on to America, where he in 1797 in Philadelphia founded a commission business, which had to liquidate in 1803 after initially happy shopping. As an agent of the house of Baring 1814-15 he lived at the Congress of Vienna; In 1815 he founded in London a chemical factory, but died on a voyage to the West Indies on December 10, 1821 in Kingston, Jamaica.

Bollmann is one of the main characters in Albert Heinrich Oppermann's novel One Hundred Years. Bollmann's biography was first made ​​known by Karl August Varnhagen von Ense, who stood with him in 1814-1819 and correspondence in the journal Minerva (1837 ) on Lafayette's liberation from Olmutz by Bollmann and Huger wrote in 1794. Bollmann sources are preserved in the Varnhagen Collection.

Thereafter, in order to refer to the Meyers article, can you { { Meyers Online | page } | } belt use.