Rare manuscript: Histoire du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, Charles Funck, 1867-1872
MANUSCRIT. Charles FUNCK: Une page d'Histoire du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg 1867-1872.
Book in 2 volumes, In-4, small-tiled leaves, entirely handwritten, text framed with red and green lines, table of contents.
Page numbering (478 pages for Volume 1 & 460 for Volume 2).
Beautiful burgundy half-maroquin binding by Jacques Dufays.
He may have been Charles Funck, son of Jean-Baptiste Henri-Melchior Funck, who in turn was the son of Jacques Funck [notary in Niederanven, born November 4, 1785 in Luxembourg and deceased December 30, 1869 in Clausen, where he occupied large plots of land with several houses in today's Rue Wiltheim. Around 1815, he ran the Niederanven paper mill, which was sold to J. Lamort in the 1830s. He married Marguerite Reuter of Arlon on November 28, 1811. His wife died at the age of 44. He then married M. A. Weydert on September 2, 1829. His first son, Jean-Baptiste Funck, was born on December 15, 1812. He too was a notary, but in Grevenmacher.]
Charles Funck was born on September 1, 1854 in Cap as the fifth child of Jean-Baptiste Funck and Philippine-Henriette Vannerus. He died in Mamer on May 14, 1928. He was a merchant in Ettelbruck, where his seven children were born to Mathilde Hemes (1868-1935), whom he married in Grosbous in 1891. He is buried in the Mamer cemetery, together with his wife.
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