Johann Friedrich Heinrich Schlosser
, Also called Johann Friedrich Heinrich Fritz Schlosser Schlosser, ( born December 30, 1780 in Frankfurt am Main, † January 22, 1851 ) was a lawyer, Imperial Councillor, writer, independent scholar and privateer. He acquired in the course of secularization, during the era of the Napoleonic rule, the monastery Stift Neuburg as a summer residence. The monastery remained for 100 years in the family and was at this time place significant encounters of artists and scholars.
Origin - Family Connections
Locksmith came from a respected Frankfurter evangelical pastor and family of lawyers. Was his great-grandfather Heinrich Ludwig Schlosser nor Protestant pastor at St. Catherine's Church in the free city of Frankfurt am Main, his grandfather Erasmus Carl Schlosser (1696-1773) lawyer, alderman and from 1757-1764 was married to Susanne Maria Orth already a senior mayor in Frankfurt / M. His office took over after his death, his father Jerome Peter Schlosser (1735-1797), also a lawyer, or one year after the death of Jerome Peter whose younger brother Johann Georg Schlosser (1739-1799), also a lawyer with extensive professional experience as a secretary of the Prince Eugen of Württemberg, the Margrave Karl Friedrich of Baden, as well as designated Common Council and Hofgerichtsdirektor in Karlsruhe. This uncle Johann Georg was married in first marriage with Cornelia Goethe (1750-1777), sister of Johann Wolfgang Goethe.
Professional Way - Philosophy - Religion
Fritz studied law from 1799, first in Halle an der Saale, later in Jena, where he personally met Schiller and Goethe. In Göttingen, he received his doctorate. His relationship with the German Enlightenment, but even more to the seal "of his relatives " Johann W. von Goethe and the Romantics designed and more intensely. In Frankfurt he was city and then Magistrate under the Primate Dalberg. In 1812 he was chief inspector and head of the newly founded Lyceum Carolinum in Frankfurt. In 1809 he married Sophie Charlotte du Fay ( 1786-1865 ), a daughter of the wealthy Frankfurt Huguenot family du Fay, whose niece einheiratete later in the Bernus family. Fritz was a member of the Frankfurt city council and worked on a commercial code for the city of Frankfurt to the plans of the Imperial French Commercial Code. Even with the draft of a constitution for the Free City of Frankfurt again, the Constitution Act supplement, he was involved. He also participated as one of the envoys of the city participate in the Congress of Vienna. There he turned under the influence of Clement Maria Hofbauer (1761-1820) the Catholicism and joined in 1814, as his brother Christian Friedrich Schlosser and his wife Sophie Charlotte to Catholicism. He gave up all public offices in Frankfurt.
Stift Neuburg - writers - Music Lovers
Johann Friedrich Heinrich Schlosser went to live as a literary collector and independent scholar. In 1825 he acquired the secularized monastery Stift Neuburg am Neckar in Heidelberg and built the building to a haven for writers, musicians and art lovers on and off. This was on his outstanding life achievement. So he left, among other things, the monastery church by Henry Pretty fashion novelty. The Conservatives called Neuburg disparaging a " romantic hermitage ," the Liberals spoke of the "ultra- montane ghost castle ". In the abbey church, the first Goethe memorial was erected. Goethe's son and grandson returned in Neuburg as frequently like a, like Goethe's former lover Marianne von Willemer or the reigning Grand Duke Leopold of Baden Baden. Only Goethe himself was never there.
Patron of the arts - Library and legacy
In the years 1834-1835 Fritz traveled to Italy and promoted since the art of the Nazarenes. He spoke several languages and made numerous translations from the Latin, French, and Italian, including adaptations of sonnets. He was one of the followers of a conservative, ultramontane ( ie: on transfers only from the papal curia constructed) policy. For the revolution of the years 1848/1849 he was unsympathetic. Its 35,000 -volume library before his death he bequeathed the Mainz seminary, which is still in the Mainz Martinus library this cosmos of the then contemporary knowledge and art nourishes and preserves valuable first editions, handwritten notes and letters.
Family du Fay - Stift Neuburg - era Alexander Freiherr von Bernus
The ownership of Stift Neuburg went after his death to his questions of faith even stricter converted to Islam and his wife Sophie Charlotte was born du Fay (1786-1865) on which it her sister Helene du Fay and her husband Friedrich Alexander, Baron von Bernus (1838-1908), the adoptive parents of the poet Alexander von Bernus inherited.
Writings
- Great: The Oriental Orthodox Church of Russia. Heidelberg 1845.
- The Church in her songs throughout the centuries. 2 vols. Mainz 1851-52. 2nd edition; edited by E. M. Lieber. , 1863.
- Hiking fruits (transferred Poe · sia ), 4 volumes; edited by Sophie Schlosser. Mainz 1856-59.