Johann Georg Repsold - Hamburg, Deutschland - Firefighter Memorials on Waymarking.com

Monument with bust, designed 1833 by the architect Alexis de Chateauneuf, for Johann Georg Repsold in Planten un Blomen directly at the Museum of Hamburg History.

Johann Georg Repsold (September 19, 1770 – January 14, 1830) was a German astronomer.
He joined the fire brigade of Hamburg in 1799. In 1802 he began building a private observatory, and collaborated in astronomical observations with Heinrich Christian Schumacher. However the observatory was destroyed in the Napoleonic Wars in 1811. In 1825 a new observatory was completed at Stadtwall, and Repsold became the director, supplying the instruments at his own expense with other funding from the city of Hamburg.
In 1830 he died in the line of his firefighting duties.

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Text on the monument:
" Joh. Georg Repsold; Geb. Wremen 1770 Sep. 19 , Gest. Hamburg 1830 Jan. 14"
„Bekämpfend die Feuerbrunst von Trümmern erschlagen“
„Erfindungsreich waffnete er die Wissenschaft“
„Kühner Berufstreue dankbare Mitbürger“.

Memorial Website: [Web Link] Physical address: Holstenwall 24 Hamburg, Deutschland 20355

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