Jean Turckheim

Jean Turckheim

2nd Strasbourg
Mayor of Strasbourg
In office
August 1792  December 1793
Preceded by Philippe Friedrich Dietrich
Succeeded by Pierre Monet
Personal details
Born 1750
Strasbourg
Died 13 December 1850
Paris
Occupation banker, philosopher, politician
Religion Protestant

Jean Frederick Turckheim, son of Baron Jean de Turckheim, was a banker in Strasbourg. He was elected as a deputy of Strasbourg to the Estates-General in 1789.[1] Initially supportive of the revolution, he became disenchanted with its goals after the violence of July and August 1790 and became convinced that the unrest was part of a broader plan to overthrow the king and establish a radical republic.[2] After a short term as mayor of Strasbourg, he left France, and offered his services to the Duke of Hesse, whom he served for several years, in particular as envoy to Rome. He also wrote a history of the House of Hesse. He died in the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1823.[3]

His nephew, Jean Frederick Turckheim, was the eighth mayor of Strasbourg.

Preceded by
Philippe Friedrich Dietrich
Mayor of Strasbourg
17921793
Succeeded by
Pierre Monet

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