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Conrad, CHRISTIAN ADOLPH OVERBECK, Johann George,
Died at Riga, B. 1755, M. 1781, D. 1821. D. 1819,
Merchant. Doctor of Laws, Syndic, Burgermeister of Lubeck, &c. Pastor.
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4 sons and 2 daughters: one son died in childhood.
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Christian Gerhard, Johannes, JOHANN FRIEDRICH OVERBECK, Frau Charlotte Frau Elizabeth
B. 1784, D. 1846, D. 1830, B. in Lubeck 1789, M. 1819, Leithoff, Meyer,
Judge, Lubeck. Merchant. D. in Rome 1869 deceased. deceased.
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Christian Theodore, | | Frau Harms,
B. 1818, D. 1880, | | Lubeck,
Doctor, Senator; | |__________________ living.
left no children. | | |
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Johannes, Gustav, Arnold, Frau Rath ALFONS MARIA, Daughter of the
Professor, Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Reuleaux, Son of the Painter, Painter: died
Doctor, living. living. Berlin, B. 1822, D. 1840. in childhood.
Archaeologist, living.
Leipzig,
living.

OVERBECK.

CHAPTER I.

LUBECK--VIENNA.

Johann Friedrich Overbeck was born, as a tablet on his father's house
records, in Lubeck on the 4th of July, 1789. Among his ancestors were
Doctors of Law and Evangelical Pastors. His parents were good
Protestants; his father was Burgomaster in the ancient city. Seldom has
a life been so nicely preordained as that of the young religious
painter. The light of his coming did not shine, as commonly supposed,
out of surrounding darkness. A visit to his birth-place, expressly made
for this memoir, soon showed me that Overbeck, from his youth upwards,
had been tenderly cared for; that he received a classic education; that
his mind was brought under mora