The revolutionary Adam Lux from Mainz-Kostheim
Adam Lux (1765-1793) was a poor but unusually intelligent farmer's son from the upper castle. His parents allowed him to study at the University of Mainz, where he - not yet 20 years old, Phil with a dissertation in Latin on the enthusiasm of Dr.. PhD. The poor academics worked as a tutor in the family of the Mainz merchant Dumont. His wife was a daughter of the short-mainz Hofgerichtsrats Reuter's and had a sister named Sabine, who married Lux. His wife had purchased the home in food "Lammerzsche house." Thanks to the substantial dowry, which had brought his wife into the marriage, Lux could buy the "thunder mill" in home cooking. On 16
October 1786 wore Lux Kostheim citizens into a log. In the following years he worked as a farmer and philosopher and father of three daughters, one of which soon died. In the "thunder mill", he led economic experiments in the spirit of the French author and cultural philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) by. Early on, he devoted himself to the ideas of the "French Revolution" (1789-1799) and for a brotherhood and the connection to France. He invited the people of home cooking in three consecutive days for the information. On the fourth day, 24 November 1792, was documented by signing the consent to the brotherhood in a red book. In Kostheim were then 223 men from the 21st Age of voting, of which 213 for brotherhood and connection, and two voted against and eight men were on business trips. They were celebrating the successful coordination of music and Lux had a tree in his yard and dig up in a public place as the tree of liberty. Each Kostheim citizen received at the expense of the municipal treasury "a bottle of wine and 14 cruisers with a note written on the was:" This gift will make you the nation as a souvenir the day of freedom ... "Adam Lux and his family moved to Mainz, a veterinarian living in the house and the deputies were of the" Rhenish-German National Convention "is selected. On 21 March 1793 convened the National Convention in Mainz and discussed about having the little "Mainz Republic" on the left of the Rhine in the great country of all Republicans, so in France, rise. In return, Lux also in his speech. He was sent with the merchant Potocki and the naturalist and writer George Forster (1754-1794) as deputy of the "Republic of Mainz and enthusiastic supporter of the" French Revolution "in Paris. But there was he has the bloody degeneration of the revolution soon very disappointed. On 17 July 1793 he witnessed the execution of Charlotte de Corday d'Armont (1768-1793), the murderer of the President of the Jacobin Club, Jean-Paul Marat (1744-1793), which had greatly impressed him. In the following years, he led by publishing provocative pamphlets aware of his death on 4 November 1793 brought to the scaffold. What prompted him to do is not precisely known. His family was thrown into the battle for home foods appeared in great need
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