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Jacob Benjamin Fisher

13.10.1731 – 25.07.1793

Jacob
Benjamin FISCHER (1731-1793) is a German Baltic natural
scientist, collector and apothecary in Riga. In 1777 and 1778 Fisher
was a member of Johann Gottfried Herder's Latvian Folk Song
Collection Campaign. The folk songs, some of which were translated
into German, collected by Heinrich Bauman, Johann Christoph Brotze
and Gustav Bergmann, as well as possibly those collected by himself
were sent to J.G. Herder through August Wilhelm Hupel, and Johann
Gottfried Herder added those to his collections of folksongs of
different nations. The correspondence between Heinrich Baumann and
Jacob Benjamin Fisher is stored in the Latvian State Historical
Archives: LVVA 4038, 2a, 304l.

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  • Author of the comment (1)
  • Person of reception (2)

    • Birth time/place

    13.10.1731
    Rīga

    Place/time of death

    25.07.1793

    Personal information

    Jacob
    Benjamin Fisher's father was Riga apothecary Jacob Johann Fischer (?
    -1751), the brother of physician and writer Johann Bernhard Fisher
    (1685-1772), mother - Gertrude, born Ebel.
    Jacob
    Benjamin Fisher married Johanna Dorothea Fellmann (1736-1816) of
    Danzig on October 13, 1765

    Professional activity



    Baltic
    natural and cultural history research

    1762:
    Bedenken
    über die Versteinerungen und deren Erzeugung, besonders derer in
    Livland     [Description
    of Vidzeme rocks and fossils, based on the author's own observations,
    incl. In Katlakalns, Lielstraupe and possibly in Gravenheide]

    1777:
    Versuch
    einer liefländischen Naturgeschichte im Grundriß
    [A study on the nature of Vidzeme and its development history,
    expanded and supplemented, published as a separate edition in Leipzig
    in 1778 and Königsberg in 1791]

    1782:
    Beyträge
    und Berichtigungen zu Hrn. F.K.Gadebusch livländischer Bibliothek
    [Additions to the Gadebusch Reference Book on Baltic German Writing]

    1789:
    Geschichte
    der Loge zum Schwerdt in Riga von ihrem Anfange bis jetzto aus dem
    Archiv und den Protokollen zusammengetragen wie auch Geschichte der
    Erziehungsanstalt z. St.Johannis dieser Loge und maurerischen
    Personalien des weyl.Hochw.Brs.Balthasar von Bergmann
    [Freemasonry's "At the Sword" and John's School History,
    Manuscript: LVVA, f. 4038, apr. 2, 1393]

    Quotes

    "My
    dearest friend, I have not yet thanked you for the songs you have
    sent. Now I do so with the feeling of all the help and kindness you
    have given me. I hope you will not reproach me for being a little
    late. God knows, I often do not understand how to manage everything.
    I will share your kind efforts with Superintendent [Johann Gottfried]
    Herder. "

    Fragment
    of a letter from August Wilhelm Hupel to Fisher, February 6, 1778.
    Quoted in: Beata Paškevica
    Latviešu
    tautasdziesmu teksti, to pierakstītāji un sūtītāji J.G.Herderam
    "Tautasdziesmu" izdevuma vajadzībām. in: Vienotība un
    atšķirība: Johana Gotfrīda Herdera filozofija. Ed. R. Bičevskis.
    Riga 2017, p.

    "Fisher
    was a zealous collector; above all, he owned a collection of
    several thousand engravings, now the property of the City Library, as
    well as a collection of autographs, currently owned by our Society.
    He also collected manuscripts, natural items and he had a good
    library, the item list of which was printed at the site of the
    auction in 1793 in Rujiena. "

    [Fischer
    war ein Mann von regem Sammeleifer; er besass ausserdem eine mehrere
    Tausende zählende Sammlung von Kupferstichen Gelehrter, gleichfalls
    Eigenthum der Stadtbibliothek, ferner Autographen Sammlung,
    gegenwärtig unserer Gesellschaft angehörig. Daneben sammelte er
    livländische Handschriften, auch Naturalien, und hatte eine gute
    Bibliothek, deren Verzeichniss, zum Zweck der Versteigerung am
    hiesigen Ort, 1793 zu Rujen gedruckt wurde    ,
    in: August
    Buchholtz. Zur Ikonographie der Ostseeprovinzen. Sitzungsberichte
    der Gesellschaft für Geschichte    ...aus
    dem Jahre 1876    ,
    Riga, 1877, p.66 -67].

    Name at birth

    Jakob Benjamin Fischer

    Education

    lat. Schola Carolina
    Mazā Pils iela 4, Rīga

    1756–1758
    University of Copenhagen
    Nørregade 10, København
    Vēsturiskā ēka, kurā Fišers studē, nav līdz mūsu dienām saglabājusies. Apgūst dabaszinības, studē pie medicīnas profesora Kristiāna Gotlība Kracenšteina (Kratzenstein, 1723-1795), aptiekāra Capela drauga, viena no trim dāņu pirmās farmakopejas autoriem, dabas zinātnieka, alķīmijas interesenta un brīvmūrnieka.

    1761
    Upsālas Universitāte
    752 36 Upsala, Zviedrija
    Studē pie Karla fon Linneja (Carl von Linee, Carl Linnaeus, 1707-1778) zooloģiju un botāniku

    Working place

    1750
    Pharmacy "Lion", Riga
    Šķūņu iela 16, Rīga
    Iespējams, 1750.gadu sākumā Jākobs Benjamins Fišers apgūst aptiekāra amatu sava tēva aptiekā.

    1755
    Kopenhāgena
    Pirms 1756 strādā par aptiekāra Joahima Dītriha Capela (Cappel, 1717-1784) palīgu viņa aptiekā Kopenhāgenā. Capels ir nozīmīga persona dāņu farmācijas vēsturē - kopš 1757. gada Karaliskā Frederika hospitāļa aptiekas aptiekārs, viens no trim dāņu pirmās farmakopejas izstrādātājiem (1772), minerālu kolekcionārs, kas aizrāvies arī ar alķimiskiem eksperimentiem.

    1758–1760
    Pharmacy "Lion", Riga
    Šķūņu iela 16, Rīga
    Strādā par provizoru savas mātes vadītā aptiekā

    08.09.1766–18.06.1768
    Pharmacy of the State Council of Riga
    Rīga
    Aptiekas īpašnieks, pēc tam to pārdod G.Toibleram (Teubler).

    1770–1793
    Riga Orphanage
    Kaļķu iela, Rīga
    Bāreņu nama grāmatvedis

    Participation in organisations

    1790–1791
    „Zum Schwerdt“
    Johana Zāmuela fon Holandera nams
    ložas sekretārs