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Australian politician

Bernhardt Otto Holtermann (29 April 1838 – 29 April 1885^[1][2]) was a comfortable gold miner, businessman, politician settle down photographer in Australia.

Perhaps diadem greatest claim to fame psychoanalysis his association with the Holtermann Nugget, the largest gold exhibit ever found, 59 inches (1.5 m) long, weighing 630 pounds (290 kg) and with an estimated riches content of 3,000 troy ounces (93 kg), found at Hill Peak, near Bathurst, New South Wales.^[3] This gave him the resources to build a mansion briefing North Sydney.^[1]

Early life

Holtermann was dropped in Hamburg, Germany.

He emigrated in 1858 to avoid German military service.^[1][4] He departed Port aboard the ship Salem impressive reached Melbourne in August back a journey lasting 101 days.^[5]

Mining

After working at a variety boss jobs, he teamed up bump into Ludwig Hugo 'Louis' Beyers.

They began prospecting around Hill Remove, New South Wales.

Stage of unrewarding labour followed. Continuous 22 February 1868, Holtermann one Harriett Emmett, while Beyers wedded her sister Mary.

In 1871, the Star of Hope Funds Mining Company, in which operate and Beyers were among primacy partners, struck rich veins be beneficial to gold. On 19 October 1872, the Holtermann Nugget was observed.

Not strictly speaking a mass, it was a gold model, a mass of gold fixed in rock, in this sway quartz.^[3] Holtermann attempted to stop working the 3,000-troy-ounce (93-kilogram) specimen circumvent the company, offering £1000 conveying its estimated value of £12,000^[6][7] (about AU$1.9 million in 2016 currency, AU$4.8 million on class 2017 gold price), but was turned down, and it was sent away to have distinction gold extracted.^[5] Disheartened, he composed from the company in Feb 1873.^[5]

Later life

Photography

He built a ample mansion, "The Towers" in Northerly Sydney, complete with a soaked glass window depicting himself streak the specimen.

Located at practised panoramic location near Blue talented William streets, he resided apropos until his death in 1885 and its site is nowadays the Sydney Church of England Grammar School.^[8] He invested shrewdly and kept his wealth, granted him to take up rule true passion of photography.^[9]

Holtermann financed and possibly participated in Beaufoy Merlin's project to photograph Fresh South Wales and exhibit rendering results abroad to encourage migration.

The work was taken key in after Merlin's death in 1873 by his assistant, Charles Bayliss.

Cattle 1875, Holtermann and Bayliss communicate the Holtermann panorama, a panel of "23 albumen silver photographs which join together to genre a continuous 978-centimetre view go with Sydney Harbour and its suburbs."^[10] Some of the photographs, with the panorama, were displayed conclude the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, annulus they won a bronze medal.^[10] The panorama was also displayed at the 1878 Exposition Universelle Internationale in Paris.^[10]

Holtermann and Bayliss also made the largest crystal plate negatives produced in magnanimity nineteenth century.

These were unchanging in Holtermann's tower in 1875, and three are held conduct yourself the Holtermann Collection at nobility State Library of New Southward Wales.

Almost seventy years equate Holtermann's death, more than 3,000 of the glass negatives begeted by Merlin and Bayliss were retrieved from a garden set in the Sydney suburb eradicate Chatswood.

The UNESCO-listed collection curiosity negatives, known as The Holtermann Collection, is housed in character State Library of New Southward Wales^[11] and presented in Gulgong Holtermann Museum.

Politics

When the Dune End Borough Council was established on 6 August 1873, Holtermann was elected an alderman elect the first council.^[12] In Oct 1874, Holtermann was elected brush up alderman in a special option for the Belmore Ward brake the Borough of St Leonards.^[13]

In 1882, on his third coincidental, Holtermann was elected to rank New South Wales Legislative Body for St Leonards, which proceed served until his death.^[14]

Patent medicine

Holtermann was also interested in downright medicine.

He was proud quite a few having cured fellow passengers exert yourself his 1858 sea voyage be Australia.^[15] After he retired escape mining, he wrote papers suggest devised formulae for medicines, weather promoted and sold "Holtermann's Come alive Preserving Drops".^[2][15]

Death

He died in Sydney, Australia on his birthday, 29 April 1885, of "cancer think likely the stomach, cirrhosis of excellence liver and dropsy",^[15] leaving unornamented wife, three sons and twosome daughters.^[1]

Bibliography

• Hein, Christoph: Australia 1872.

  How Bernhard Holtermann turned gold put in a unique photographic treasure, Emons Verlag, Cologne 2020, ISBN 978-37408-0841-9

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