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Edmund-Siemers-Allee / Rothenbaumchaussee

Johann Georg Büsch

Altenmedingen bei Lüneburg 1728 - Hamburg 1800
German educator and writer
(Wikipedia)

Ernst Matthaei & Johann Conrad Wolff
1801

Description

Granite socle with sandstone obelisk with portrait and an allegorical scene, showing an altar with the geniuses of Immortality and Death, to the left a boy symbolizing youth, and to the right Hammonia (patron of Hamburg), Trade and Industry.

Inscription(s)

portrait

dem freunde
des
vaterlandes
iohann georg
busch

geburtsiahr
mdccxxviii

allegorical scene
von seinen
dankbaren
mitbürgern
——
mdccci.

todesiahr
mdccc.

Signature

ernest matthći: mdccc
Allegorica scene signed: c. wolff fecit weimar

Annotation

The monument is erected by the Patriottische Gesellschaft. The architect was Johann August Arens (1757-1806). It is the first monument erected for a person in Hamburg.

Sculptors

Ernst Gottlob Matthaei (Matthäi) (Meißen 1779 - Dresden 1842), German sculptor.
Johann Conrad Wolff (Kassel 1766 - Kassel 1815), German sculptor.

Sources & Information

Wikipedia, Büsch-Denkmal.
Gerhard Hirschfeld, Rousseau in Hamburg: Ansprache am Gründungstag der Patriotischen Gesellschaft am 11.April 2007 vor dem Denkmal für Johann Georg Büsch auf der Moorweide - aus Anlass der Ergänzung der Pappelpflanzung. Jahresbericht 2006-2007, Patriotische Gesellschaft von 1765, pp. 54-58 (PDF On-line).

Locatie (N 53°33'43" - E 9°59'21") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: dehh003; Photograph: 6 November 2008 / updated: 13 September 2009
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