Peterson family, Bydgoszcz
family from Bydgoszcz, Poland
The Peterson family was a family whose several members had a historical importance in the city of Bydgoszcz, Poland. They were influential from the beginning of the 19th century till the 1930s in the area of politics, engineering and entrepreneurship.
Ernst Conrad Peterson (1778–1841)
Early life
Ernst Conrad was born on June 18, 1778, in Kołobrzeg. He was the son of Johann Gottfried, a master bricklayer and Dorotha Elisabeth née Mursinna, his second wife.
His grandfather Martin Fryderyk, moved from Berlin to Kołobrzeg (then Kolberg) to work as a bricklayer.
His father Johann Gottfried was in 1770 a builder involved in the construction of a bridge over the Netze river near Nakel and then in the leveling of the Bydgoszcz Canal. After a long period of employment in the network regulation between Nakel and Czarnikau, Johann Gottfried was employed as a master builder in Pomerania.
Ernst Conrad learned the construction craft with his father. In 1792, he began to study the works carried out by the city architect Wibelitz in Białogard.
In 1795, he received a professional passport (Polish: paszport podwodowy) as a surveyor's assistant; on October 22, he was employed in a topographic survey of South Prussia.
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