Conrad Johann Matthiessen
Conrad Johann Matthiessen (25 July 175123 January 1822) was a leading Hamburg merchant and banker during the French Revolutionary Wars. An enthusiastic backer of the French Revolution, revolution during its early phases, in 1796 he even married a French woman, though the two of them were divorced five years later. Biography Matthiessen's father was Hieronymus Matthiessen, another prosperous Hamburg merchant. His mother, born Susanne Texier, came from a Huguenots, Huguenot family, and was an elder sister to the German-Dutch diplomat, :de:Peter Texier, Peter Texier. He became a partner in the trading house of "Matthiesen & Sillem". He is better known, however, on account of his networking and travelling. He numbered Georg Heinrich Sieveking and Caspar Voght among his closest friends. Among the women in the group his closer friends included Elise Reimarus, :de:Magdalena Pauli, Magdalena Pauli and the writer-poet Elisa von der Recke who describes him in her diary as a "pure, n ...
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