You are bidding on one Pre-Phila letter (merchant's letter) from 1852 out ofHann. Muenden.
The businessman Ludwig fleischmann turns to the company JH Lampe & Son in Ankum near Bersenbrück.
His Daughter Emilie fleischmann (1821-1891) had in 1840 the politician and literary historian Adolf Ellissen (1815-1872) got married. Their sons were the writer and bookseller Hans Ellissen (1845-1901), pseudonym Victor Welten, and the philologist Otto Ellissen (1859-1943).
The company JH Lampe & Sohn was probably run by a Jewish merchant family, as this is mentioned in the work "Your name lives: on the history of the Jews in the Bersenbrück region" by Maria von Borries, Osnabrück 1997, p. 84.
Dated Münden, 7. February 1852.
Regardsa request whether lampHam can deliver, especially "properly dried Westphalian hams with an average weight of 10-16 lbs." Since he regularly sends large quantities of ham to "a relative of mine in America," Lampe can "count on recurring orders from me every year."
Written by scribe; with handwritten signature "Ludw. fleischmann" and a longer handwritten addition: "You will be informed about my solidity and conduct each The prestigious Bremen house will provide sufficient information upon request. Merz in Bremen."
Format: 26.8 x 21.8 cm (folded 7.7 x 12.4 cm).
Sent by post, with postmark "MÜNDEN 7/2" and handwritten tax mark and company stamp.
Condition: Thin paper slightly stained; good condition. Please also note the pictures!
Internal note: MM 24-04 Hannoversch Münden
About the son-in-law Adolf Ellissen (Source: wikipedia & NDB):
Georg Anton Adolf Ellissen (* 14. March 1815 in Gartow; † 5. November 1872 in Göttingen) was a German politician and literary historian. He was very actively involved in the German Revolution of 1848/1849 and later became a member and president of the Second Chamber of the Estates Assembly of the Kingdom of Hanover as well as a representative in the Constituent Reichstag of the North German Confederation, the Prussian House of Representatives and the Hanoverian Provincial Parliament.
Life: Ellissen grew up as the son of the physician Gerhard Ellissen in Gartow and studied medicine, history, literature and linguistics at the Georg August University in Göttingen. He continued his studies in Berlin and Paris. He received his doctorate from the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg. In 1838 and 1860 he travelled to Greece to research Middle and Modern Greek literature on site.
Ellissen initially made a name for himself as a translator of Montesquieu (Spirit of the Laws) and Voltaire (Selected Works). With his attempt to create a polyglot of European poetry, he was groundbreaking for the cultural-historical perspective and comparative literary history. In collaboration with Heinrich Loedel, he made a name for himself with Hans Holbein and his Dance of Death. He made a special contribution to the exploration of Middle and Modern Greek literature, which had previously been almost unexplored.
From 1842 onwards, Ellissen lived in Göttingen, where he became an employee of the university library in 1847. His 30-year stay in Göttingen was temporarily interrupted by his participation in the March Revolution of 1848. In this context, Ellissen dealt with the prevailing political conditions very critically and skillfully. According to information in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, he was the most popular citizen of Göttingen at the time, which is why he was the elected mayor of Göttingen and spokesman of the mayoral council (mayor) for many years.
Ellissen was sent by the Göttingen Citizens' Association, first as a con-depute to the Hanoverian Estates Assembly, to Hanover and later to Frankfurt am Main. In 1849 he became a representative of Göttingen in the Second Chamber of the Hanoverian Estates Assembly, which elected him vice-president in 1852 and president in 1854. There he was a spokesman in the protest against the intentions of the Hanoverian government to restore the old conditions before 1848. The government tried to break his opposition by preventing any promotion of the philologist, but was unsuccessful. In 1864 he returned to the Second Chamber as a representative for Osnabrück and in 1867 to the constituent Reichstag of the North German Confederation, to the Prussian Ababgeordnetenen and the Hanoverian Provincial Parliament, where he belonged to the National Liberal faction.
Trivia: Ellissen was a member of the Corps Hildesia Göttingen. Because of his membership in a fraternity, he was punished with ten days of hard confinement. He had to serve his sentence in the detention cell in the auditorium of the Georg August University.
Ellissen, Georg Anton Adolf, philologist, historian and politician, * 14.3.1815 Gartow (district of Dannenberg), † 5.11.1872 Göttingen. (Lutheran)
Genealogy: From an old dyer and merchant family. in Einbeck;
V →Gerhard (1778–1838), country physician, court physician and MR in Gartow (see ADB 48), son of Pastor Aug. Frdr. in Northeim;
M Marianne Jacobi (1786–1846), bailiff’s daughter;
⚭ 1840 Emilie (1821–91), T of the merchant. Ludw. fleischmann in Hanoversch Münden;
3 S, 3 T, including Hans (1845–1901, Ps. Victor Worlds, writers, booksellers (see F. Brümmer, in: BJ VI, p. 233 [and part. 1901, L], Kosch, Lit.-Lex.), →Otto (1859–1943), philologist (see Wi. 1935).
biography: After a short period of medical studies, E. turned to studying history and philology – particularly in Göttingen and Berlin – without, however, completing his studies with a doctorate. This was only done 10 years later (1846) in Heidelberg in order to create the prerequisites for employment as a scientific assistant (later library secretary) at the Göttingen library. After abandoning his studies, trips to Paris and Athens reinforced his strong interest in the linguistic and historical elucidation of medieval Greece. Through his work and publications in this field, as well as those from the French and Chinese cultural circles, he sought an inner balance for the narrowness of his modest full-time professional sphere of activity, which often oppressed him. – The assumption of his library activities (1847) coincided almost exactly with the beginning of his public activity as a politician, which he felt he could not evade for reasons of conscience. As a member of the Second Hanoverian Chamber, the North German Reichstag and the Prussian House of Representatives, he devoted himself entirely to the German people's struggle for freedom and unification (while accepting severe professional disadvantages as a result of royal disgrace). The Göttingen University Library directly benefited from his activities as a member of parliament because, despite strong opposition, he pushed through a significant increase in the endowment for the purchase of books. – E. recognized the importance of Greek vulgar poetry in the field of Byzantine literature and language research, which was still barely cultivated at the time, taught to disregard aesthetic judgment in its evaluation and demonstrated its decisive role in the formation of historical judgements. He was also the first to point out the profound influence of Byzantine culture on the Italian Renaissance.proven. Even though many of his theories have proven to be erroneous, with this expansion of the historical field of view he was nevertheless fundamentally involved in the formation of a new Western historical image of the Middle Ages, which, in addition to Rome, found its second focal point in Byzantium. – In Greece, which became his second intellectual home, E. enjoyed high esteem as a researcher. Golden Medal for Science and Art, Knight of the Greek Order of the Redeemer, Honorary Member of the Archaeological Society.