“ad Art. II of my will.”
now to my daughter Eleonore Wolff of Leipsic,
5300 Rth.- P. Cour. for which sum she and her husband have given a Promissory Note on October 2nd, 1832, by which the attested settlement by death is forthwith cancelled, and
700 Rth.- Pr. cour, through the Ducal Board of Revenue, for my said daughter Eleonore Wolff, from January 1835, No.C. 5490i.
6000 Rth.- Pr. Cour. in words : six thousand thalers.
“ad Art. XIII of my will”
Of the
6000 Rth.- Pr. Cour shall now be made over to my daughter Henriette Foerster, and there shall now be subtracted the sum deducted in the above mentioned article of my will of
170 Rth.- Pr. Cour, so that she now receives
5830 Rth.- Pr. Cour. in words: five thousand eight hundred and thirty thaler, that is 5325 in Ducal Board of Revenue in investments from January 12th, 1835. No.C. 5490 G.
and 5 Rth. in cash.
5830 Rth. Sa.- Attested, receives, but now as a matter of course, in consideration of my future legacy given in equal parts with the other heirs.
170 Rth.- Pr. Cour also are now assigned to my grandchild Herrmann Friedrich Siegmund Richter.
6000 Rth.- Pr. Cour. added, so that the latter now receives
6170 Rth.-Pr. Cour. less my expenses amounting to the sum of (for which I hold a receipt)
117 Rth.21 Gr.- Pr. Cour. for this my grandchild paid at the time when he was discharged as apprentice to the needlemakers.
“ad Art. XIV of my will”
are herewith subtracted and immediately handed over to the local Institute for neglected children (Help Society), so that there only remains.
6052 Rth. 3 Gr.- Pr. Cour. in words: six thousand and fifty two thalers and three Groschen, and that is
6052 Rth.- Pr. Cour through the Ducal Board of Revenue in investments of January 12th, 1835. No.c. 5490 F. and 2 Rth. 3 Gr.- Pr. Cour in cash
6052 Rth.3 Gr.- Pr. Cour Sa. have been assigned to my grandson Herrmann Friedrich Siegmund Richter.
My other children have each received their 6000 Rth. Pr. Cour. in the following Ducal Board of Revenue investments, that is,
6000 Rth.- Pr. Cour. to my absent son Friedrich Hahnemann (whose trustee is Solicitor von Board, here) by Ducal Board of Revenue investment of January 12th, 1835, No.C. 5490b.
6000 Rth.- Pr. Cour. to my daughter Friederike Dellbruck, widow, before named Andrea, by Ducal Board of Revenue investment of January 12th, 1835, No. C. 5490e
6000 Rth.-Pr. Cour. to my daughter Amalie, divorced Liebe, widow Suss, by Ducal Board of Revenue investments of January 12th, 1835. No. C. 5490a.
6000 Rth.- Pr. Cour. to my daughter Louise divorced Mossdorf, by Ducal Board of Revenue investments of January 12th, 1835. No.C. 5490c.
6000 Rth.- Pr. Cour. to my unmarried daughter Charlotte Hahnemann by a Ducal Board of Revenue investment of January 12th, 1835. No. C. 5490d.
“ad Art. XVI of my will”
The 160 Rth. Pr. Cour. in words: I have withdrawn again from my daughter Charlotte since my re-marriage, one hundred and sixty thalers for funeral expenses. These cannot, therefore, be demanded from her after my death.
“ad Art. XVII of my will”
This settlement is herewith cancelled. The expenses of burial as well as the expenses for hospitality and other expenditures mentioned in this article will be taken from my estate according to the then existing amount.
“ad Art. XIX of my will”
It remains only to remark, that I have invested most of my property in Ducal Board of Revenue securities.
The Ducal Board of Revenue investment of 600 thalers Pr. Cour. for my son Friedrich Hahnemann, has been handed over to his trustee Mr. von Brandt, solicitor, residing here, and it is to be kept and administered by him, and as long as I live I wish to receive a yearly account of it, or until the death of my son, if he be still alive and should return, but should he not present himself, an account of it shall be rendered every year to the legal trustees of the Ducal Board of Revenue.
The 6050 Rthl. Pr. Cour. and 2 Rthl. 3 gr. in cash which have been settled on my grandson, Herrmann Friedrich Siegmund Richter have been received by the solicitor Mr. Isensee (Justizamtmann) who will keep them in his trust, and hand over to the respective heir a certificate of deposit and will draw the interest and hand it over each year, giving the necessary account thereof.
Also the documents of my other heirs and legatees shall be kept by Mr. Isensee, and a deposit certificate shall be handed to each respective heir; the interest shall be drawn a nd handed over to them each year which the necessary accounts.
Should Mr. von Brandt. Justizrath, or Mr. Isensee, Justizamtmann, who each hold the documents of my heirs land legatees, die, if I am still alive I will appoint another trustee and depositor for the property, but should I have died meanwhile one of the two said gentlemen would take it cover, but if both should die, it would be left to the legal Board of Trustees of the Ducal Government to appoint another.
The remainder of my property I shall keep as long as I live, for my own purposes, but that I leave my death will then also come to my legal heirs and without any condition as to its use, everything being left as I have previously stated in my will as above mentioned; but it is to be understood that if I should have any more children, each of them should also first receive 6000 Rthl. in words: six thousand thalers, under the above named restriction of disposing of it in their lifetime, and then rest is to be shared in equal portions with the other heirs.
Of this deed of gift and settlement each of my said heirs and legatees will receive an attested copy, but the original will remains in my keeping.
(CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH) SAMUEL, HAHNEMANN.
Cothen, February 17th, 1835.
(L.S.)
It is herewith witnessed and certified that Hofrath Dr. Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann, who is well known to be capable of dealing with his own personal estate, has after reading the contents of this Deed of Gift declared himself satisfied, and attested in every way that he signed it with is own hand.
Cothen, February 17th, 1835.
Duke of Anhalt’s Justizamt Reinsdorf, A. ISENSEE.
The son-in-law’s doubts regarding the security of the invested capital.
Venerable father,
I arrived here safely at 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon, unfortunately I found, as I feared, my good wife no better than when I left her; your medicine and the joyous news from your home cheered her visibly; this will help the treatment considerably. She wept tears of joy.
Receive from us both the warmest thanks for your fatherly good-will which has reached the culminating point by securing for your children and grandchildren a considerable income. Please do not ignore my humble request that Isensee be asked to legally acknowledge in detail the receipt of this large sum, as this is a necessary and usual custom, especially on account of those abroad; for, notwithstanding the honestly and sagacity of Mr. Isensee, circumstances might arise which might cause life-long trouble to your family, and rob you of your laboriously acquired property.
I honestly think that it would be better if you would be so gracious as to hand over, or send to each one their money in Exchequer Bonds, giving the amounts due (to those not yet of age), to their guardians, and to the others, personally, against legal receipt and renunciation. Divided among eight people, little misfortune can arise, and he who does not manage his won share properly will be blamed by his children and his children’s children. But you may believe that during our lives we shall ever admire your great generosity and acknowledge it before the world.
With the usual esteem and grateful veneration we are,
Your obedient children, INSPECTOR DELLBRUCK.
Dresden, February 20th, 1835.
Venerable father,
I wrote to you on February 20th, ’35, from Leipsic, a well- meaning letter intended for your peace and blessing as the father of many children, and for the future distribution and safety of you large just now from the Post that it will not reach you until Thursday, this one may arrive first and announce a resolution taken after careful consideration.
Before you drew Dr. Lehmann to your side for the propagation of homoeopathy-and he undoubtedly was the right man for your profession-it had been our earnest, wish, after the sale of our property (in Stotteritz), to find our way to Cothen and you, so that we might enjoy the society of our loving father, and that of our sisters who have been much tried, thinking that in this way we might help, according to our limited capabilities, to brighten your life by intimate social intercourse. But as Dr. Lehmann had lightened your burden by his skilful assistance, and as you had in Justizrath von Brandt, Pastor Schmidt, Secretary Rumpf and others, the friendship of educated men, and your daughter to care for you faithfully, we though that you were sufficiently well looked after, and considered it conceit and arrogance to offer you our assistance and society. To this was to be added the difficulty of coming to live in Cothen; we also felt that you might blame us if we tried to buy property after the loss of money incurred at Stotteritz, that is, that you would say we were dragging or money about, buying here and there, playing in a sense with hundreds, and wasting our money.
Richard Haehl was also an editor and publisher of the homeopathic journal Allgemcine, and other homeopathic publications.
Haehl was responsible for saving many of the valuable artifacts of Samuel Hahnemann and retrieving the 6th edition of the Organon and publishing it in 1921.
Richard Haehl was the author of - Life and Work of Samuel Hahnemann