Joseph Hoch

Joseph High ( May 3, 1815 in Frankfurt am Main, † September 19, 1874 ) was a German maker. His last will of 1878 enabled the creation of Dr. Hoch's Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main.

Life and work

Joseph Paul John came from a high resident for generations in Frankfurt am Main family. All four grandparents lived in this city. His father, a doctorate in law Johann Peter Jerome High (1779-1831) was a juror and Senator and 1829 Senior Mayor of the Free City of Frankfurt. His mother, nee Schweitzer, was the daughter of a juror and Senators.

High studied law as his father and became a Doctor of rights. He was a musical nerd who learned early piano and violin and came by twice inheritance into the possession of a large fortune. He married at age 41, a Baroness Ottilie von Soden Stern, who, when he on September 19, 1874, 59 years after he died childless marriage, outlived by 48 years; she died in 1922 in Kassel.

Early on high decided, following the example of the banker Johann Friedrich Städel, who had left his native city his images, and his fortune for the establishment of an Institute of Fine Arts, to enable the creation of a Conservatory in Frankfurt. Before a trip to England in 1843 for the first time sat high on a corresponding Testament. The law applicable to the conservatory founded Testament but he wrote until 1857.

The will, dated July 14, 1857 included 21 paragraphs. He was followed by yet subsequent codicils, the last two months before his death. The legacy was about one million gold marks. His grave is located in the main cemetery Frankfurt.

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