Boßler family

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Rüde is a nomen gentilicium, which was changed for business reasons and to conceal family relationships to the dialectal occupational surname Boßler at the request of the bearer of the name between 1633 and 1640.{{Cite journal |last=Künzel |first=Alexander |date=2024 |title=Standesübergänge vom Niederadel zum Nicht-Adel. Betrachtet am Mannesstamm Rüde der altadeligen Linie von Bödigheim und der "verbürgerlichten" Linie Boßler |journal=Mannheimer Geschichtsblätter |volume=47–48 |pages=41 |issn=0948-2784}} The Boßler family represent a lawful patrilineal branch of the patricians Rüde, who had lived in Mosbach since 1482.

The Rüden, who ranked among the wealthiest burghers of the chief administrative city, practised crafts and trade. As councillors and mayors, the patrician family was involved in the local government and was one of Mosbach's lenders. The Rüde family of Mosbach also became part of the patriciate of the imperial city of Heilbronn and were related to the Heilbronn patriciate as well as the patriciate of the imperial city of Hall and families ennobled by imperial letters patent.{{Cite journal |last=Boßler |first=Marcel Christian |date=2024 |title=Ein kurpfälzisches Stadtgeschlecht zwischen Bürgerstolz, Patriziat und Adel, betrachtet im Spiegel alter Urkunden. Die zu Mosbach stadtsässigen Rüden und ihre hessen-darmstädtische Seitenlinie veränderten Namens |journal=Pfälzisch-Rheinische Familienkunde |volume=XX |issue=7 |pages=336–342, 345–346, 347–348, 367, 371–374 390–391, 394, 402 |issn=0171-1504}}

Rüde is a nomen gentilicium, which was changed to the dialectal occupational surname Boßler at the request of the bearer of the name between 1633 and 1640. The Boßler family tree begins in 1616 in the Hessian Amt Lichtenberg. At Asbach, now a district of the municipality of Modautal the family survived the Thirty Years' War unharmed.Hermann von der Au: Zur Besiedelung des Pfarrdorfes Nieder-Modau nach dem Dreißigjährigen Kriege, in: Hessische Chronik. Monatsschrift für Familien- und Ortsgeschichte in Hessen und Hessen-Nassau. Sechzehnter Jahrgang. Darmstadt 1929, {{ZDB|400444-9}}, p. 63–64.

Martin Rüde dictus Boßler (1616–1694) is the progenitor of the family. He had four sons: Christian (1643–1690) burgrave and gunsmith, Matthaeus (1645–1716), Peter (1654–1697) and Johann Valentin (1661–1719). All four of them were born under the freely adopted surname Boßler, which had replaced the nomen gentilicium Rüde.{{Cite journal |last=Boßler |first=Marcel Christian |date=2024 |title=Ein kurpfälzisches Stadtgeschlecht zwischen Bürgerstolz, Patriziat und Adel, betrachtet im Spiegel alter Urkunden. Die zu Mosbach stadtsässigen Rüden und ihre hessen-darmstädtische Seitenlinie veränderten Namens |journal=Pfälzisch-Rheinische Familienkunde |volume=XX |issue=7 |pages=334, 382, 384–385, 411 |issn=0171-1504}}

File:Unterschrift Johann Wilhelm Boßler vom 28. Oktober 1738.png of Johann Wilhelm Boßler on the occasion of the Oath of Allegiance taken on 28 October 1738Ralph Beaver Strassburger, William John Hinke: Pennsylvania German pioneers – A publication of the original lists of arrivals in the port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808, vol. II (Facsimile Signatures 1727–1775), Norristown 1934, p. 247 Online]]

Johann Wilhelm (1714–1782) from Ernsthofen, the youngest son of Johann Valentin Boßler (1661–1719),Diethard Köhler: Familien in Ernsthofen 1635–1750, in: Familien in Herchenrode, Ernsthofen, Neutsch, Allertshofen und Hoxhohl 1635–1750, Ober-Ramstadt 1987, {{OCLC|74998604}} was among the pioneer settlers of the Province of Pennsylvania.William Henry Egle: Names of foreigners who took the oath of allegiance to the province and state of Pennsylvania 1727–1775, with the foreign arrivals, 1786–1808, Harrisburg 1892, {{OCLC|263030192}}, p. 172–173, 679, [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t87h1rr72&view=1up&seq=180&skin=2021 Online] In 1767, William Bossler farmed his 150-acre plantation in Windsor Township.William Henry Egle: Proprietary and State Tax Lists of the County of Berks, for the Years 1767, 1768, 1779, 1780, 1781, 1784, 1785, Harrisburg 1898, {{OCLC|631138552}}, p. 45, [https://archive.org/details/3rdpennsylvaniaarch18harruoft/page/44/mode/2up Online] By 1779, William and his son John Heinrich (Henry) Bossler (1747–1790), also named Bassler,William Gabriel Long: History of the Grim family of Pennsylvania and its associated families including the following: Merkle [and others], Pottsville 1934, {{OCLC|608526506}}, p. 46, 51, [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89069275295&seq=58 Online] owned a combined 280 acres of plantations.William Henry Egle: Proprietary and State Tax Lists of the County of Berks, for the Years 1767, 1768, 1779, 1780, 1781, 1784, 1785, Harrisburg 1898, {{OCLC|631138552}}, p. 295, [https://archive.org/details/3rdpennsylvaniaarch18harruoft/page/294/mode/2up Online]

Alfred J. Bossler (1836–1895), through his grandfather Jacob (1784–1846) a great-grandson of the farmer Henry Bossler,Richard Williams: The Pennsylvania Traveler-Post. Records, family history and data relating to Pennsylvania and surrounding States, vol. 16, no. 1, November 1979, {{OCLC|866029041}}, p. 28. “belongs to an old and respected ancestry, the American branch of which has always resided in the eastern part of the State”.Samuel T. Wiley: Biographical and portrait cyclopedia of Schuylkill County Pennsylvania. Comprising a historical sketch of the county, Philadelphia 1893, {{OCLC|1026485897}}, p. 500 Online Among the veterans of the American Revolutionary War is William's son George Bossler (1749–1805) and one of his sons-in-law.Charles A. Fisher: Early central Pennsylvania lineages. Section One, Selinsgrove, PA 1948, {{OCLC|1275724}}, p. 23.Frederick A. Virkus: The Compendium of American Genealogy, First Families of America. A genealogical encyclopedia of the United States, Baltimore 1942, {{ISBN|978-0-8063-1171-5}}, p. 544.Lineage book. National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, vol. LXV (64001–65000), Washington, D.C. 1907, {{OCLC|1565972}}, p. 138. George's son John Bassler (1780–1859) married Catharina (1790–1856), the eldest daughter of Captain John Conrad Weiser († 1803) and thus a great-grandchild of Conrad Weiser.Charles A. Fisher: Early central Pennsylvania lineages. Section One, Selinsgrove, PA 1948, {{OCLC|1275724}}, p. 24.Charles A. Fisher: The Snyder county pioneers, Selinsgrove, PA 1938, {{OCLC|2607173}}, p. 6, 97, [https://www.google.de/books/edition/Snyder_County_Pennsylvania_Pioneers/T8XwW7YQZXIC?hl=de&gbpv=0 Online]Frederick Sheely Weiser: The Weiser family. A genealogy of the family of John Conrad Weiser, the elder (d. 1746) Prepared on the two hundred fiftieth anniversary of his arrival in America, 1710–1760, Manheim 1960, {{OCLC|593239}}, p. 52.

Georges Bossler's daughter Catharina was the mother of Wilson Arbogast,John W. Jordan, Edgar Moore Green, George T. Ettinger: Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, New York 1905, {{OCLC|777865395}}, p. 241, [https://archive.org/details/historichomesins02jord_0/page/n353/mode/2up Online] co-founder of the Arbogast & Bastian slaughterhouse. Georges daughter-in-law Catharina Weiser was related to the Muhlenberg family, a United States political, religious, and military dynasty.

As rightful male side line and thus a member of the agnatic legal community of the aristocratic House of the Rüde von Bödigheim, the Boßlers bear the same coat of arms, which shows a right-facing, white or silver head of a Rüde with a red tongue on a red shield. On the helmet with its red and silver mantle.{{Cite journal |last=Künzel |first=Alexander |date=2024 |title=Standesübergänge vom Niederadel zum Nicht-Adel. Betrachtet am Mannesstamm Rüde der altadeligen Linie von Bödigheim und der "verbürgerlichten" Linie Boßler |journal=Mannheimer Geschichtsblätter |volume=47–48 |pages=41, 44–45 |issn=0948-2784}}

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Formal the Mosbach line changed its coat of arms to obscure its aristocratic ancestry to a black, smooth-haired Rüde pointing upwards towards the jump with open mouth, craving red tongue and tail curved over itself on a yellow or golden escutcheon with a frog-mouth helm.{{Cite journal |last=Künzel |first=Alexander |date=2024 |title=Standesübergänge vom Niederadel zum Nicht-Adel. Betrachtet am Mannesstamm Rüde der altadeligen Linie von Bödigheim und der "verbürgerlichten" Linie Boßler |journal=Mannheimer Geschichtsblätter |volume=47–48 |pages=34–35 |issn=0948-2784}}{{Cite journal |last=Boßler |first=Marcel Christian |date=2024 |title=Ein kurpfälzisches Stadtgeschlecht zwischen Bürgerstolz, Patriziat und Adel, betrachtet im Spiegel alter Urkunden. Die zu Mosbach stadtsässigen Rüden und ihre hessen-darmstädtische Seitenlinie veränderten Namens |journal=Pfälzisch-Rheinische Familienkunde |volume=XX |issue=7 |pages=355–357, 387 |issn=0171-1504}}

To use aristocratic rights even as burghers in 1607, prince-elector Frederick IV of the Palatinate confirmed the above blazoned family coat of arms by grant of arms with feudal fief article and granted an augmentation of honour consisting of a tilting helmet with black mantling on the outside and a yellow or golden on the inside, from which two black horns emerge at the top and a yellow or golden six-pointed star between them.

Prince-elector Frederick V of the Palatinate increased the burgher arms Rüde again in 1619 by grant of arms with feudal fief article.{{Cite journal |last=Boßler |first=Marcel Christian |date=2024 |title=Ein kurpfälzisches Stadtgeschlecht zwischen Bürgerstolz, Patriziat und Adel, betrachtet im Spiegel alter Urkunden. Die zu Mosbach stadtsässigen Rüden und ihre hessen-darmstädtische Seitenlinie veränderten Namens |journal=Pfälzisch-Rheinische Familienkunde |volume=XX |issue=7 |pages=355–357, 360 |issn=0171-1504}} An imperial or electoral issuance of arms with a feudal fief article is recognised as a patent of nobility by the Almanach de Gotha.Heinz Lieberich: Rittermässigkeit und bürgerliche Gleichheit. Anmerkungen zur gesellschaftlichen Stellung des Bürgers im Mittelalter, in: Festschrift für Hermann Krause, Köln 1975, {{ISBN|3-412-20375-0}}, p. 67.

In the field of music and drama, the fine arts were shaped by two descendants of the South Hessian dynasty who were among the cultural elite of their time. The first was the renowned music publisher Heinrich Philipp Boßler (1744–1812), a figure who shaped music publishing in the 18th century. On the other hand, there was Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, a childhood friend of Goethe and one of the most important poets in literary history, whose work Sturm und Drang gave its name to an entire literary epoch in the Age of Enlightenment.

Klinger found a connection to the Boßler family through his paternal grandmother's line.Heinrich Wolf: Familienbuch Reichelsheim 1643–1875. Vol. 2, Mit Pfaffen-Beerfurth, Reichelsheim, Rohrbach, Unter-Ostern und den Verzeichnissen, Otzberg 2018, {{ISBN|978-3-946295-61-7}}, p. 969.Mary K. Klinger: The Klingers from the Odenwald, Hesse, Germany, Ca. 1610-1989, Baltimore 1989, {{OCLC|20796966}}, p. 9. Both descend from the gunsmith Christian Boßler.Marcel Christian Boßler: Die hessischen Büchsenmacher Boßler. Teil II – Drei Brüder, ein feurig-pulvriges Kunsthandwerk und die europäisch funkende Vetternschaft von Heinrich Philipp Boßler mit Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, in: Archiv für hessische Geschichte und Altertumskunde. Neue Folge 81, Darmstadt 2023, {{ISSN|0066-636X}}, p. 48–49, 58, 72, 74–78. The baltic knighthoods itself points out that Klinger was married to an illegitimate daughter of the Russian empress Catherine the Great.Otto Magnus von Stackelberg, Genealogisches Handbuch der estländischen Ritterschaft, Vol 1, Görlitz 1931, p. 28

In addition, branches and twigs of the Boßler family share ancestors with important personalities from the fields of theology, science, politics and culture in earlier centuries or are closely intertwined with their family trees. These include, for example, the outstanding chemist Justus LiebigBernhard Koerner, Hessisches Geschlechterbuch, Band 52 der Gesamtreihe des Genealogischen Handbuchs bürgerlicher Familien, Görlitz 1927, {{ZDB|2252-4}}, p. 304–305, 309, 321–323. or Georg Gottfried Gervinus (1805–1871) as well as Friedrich Ludwig Weidig. At this point, the social-genealogical reference to the internationally known Merck family of Darmstadt also seems remarkable. In addition, there are recurring genealogical links to families of forestry and hunting officials or members of the Lutheran clergy.Bernhard Koerner, Darmstädter Geschlechterbuch, Band 96 der Gesamtreihe des Genealogischen Handbuchs bürgerlicher Familien, Görlitz 1937, {{ZDB|1041-8}}, p. 397, 413, 415.

The Paris branch, i.e. the French part of the family descended from Matthäus Boßler. The most famous scientific representative was the astronomer Jean Bosler (1878–1973),[http://d-nb.info/gnd/11762182X Jean Bosler] in the German National Library whose work was shaped by his work as director at the Marseille Observatory. His scientific work was award-winning, even the Nobel Prize winner Erwin Schrödinger considered him for his work. Jean Boslers great-grandfather came from Reinheim and went to Paris. In France the surname Boßler was changed to the form Bosler.

In the natural sciences, the chemical element Darmstadtium, with atomic number 110 in the group 10 elements of the periodic table, is also associated with the name Bossler.Sigurd Hofmann: On Beyond Uranium. Journey to the end of the periodic table, Taylor & Francis, London 2002, {{ISBN|0-415-28496-1}}, p. 168.

Members of the dynasty and descendants of the gunsmith Christian Boßler made a name for themselves as hesse-darmstadt court gunsmiths. They created rifles that can still be found in public or private collections throughout Europe and have even found their way into the catalogues of Christie's, the global auction house. All in all, these family members have achieved a high social standing, are part of Hesse-Darmstadt's hunting history and have attained pioneer status through their famous creative art in the manufacture of air rifles.Marcel Christian Boßler, Er war nicht zu Zella geboren! Der Hessen-Darmstädtische Hofbüchsenmacher Johann Peter Boßler und seine Dynastie, in: Waffen- und Kostümkunde. Zeitschrift für Waffen- und Kleidungsgeschichte, Sonnefeld 2020, {{ISSN|0042-9945}} p. 151–174.

The air rifles of the hesse-darmstadt court gunsmiths Johann Peter (1689–1742) and Friedrich Jacob Boßler (1717–1793) so famous that they were copied during the lifetime of their creators.Arne Hoff, Dutch Firearms, London 1978, {{ISBN|0-85667-041-3}}, p. 246.

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The Neckarsteinach branch, ergo the entire family from Neckarsteinach, is divided into an older and a younger family lineNadine Sauer, Familien in Neckarsteinach 1603–1900, Band I. die evangelischen Kirchenbücher, Band 171 der Reihe B der Deutschen Ortssippenbücher, Neckarsteinach 1999, {{OCLC|866178658}}, p. 76. and belongs to the history of shipping on the Neckar. The older line was active in cargo shipping on the Rhine and its tributaries.Helmut Betz: Historisches vom Strom. Die Neckarschiffahrt vom Treidelkahn zum Groß-Motorschiff, Duisburg 1989, {{ISBN|3-924999-04-X}} p. 53, 128, 142–145. The Boßlers in Neckarsteinach are also descended from Matthaeus Boßler through the schoolmaster and merchant Johannes Boßler (1796–1834) from Nieder-Modau (near Ober-Ramstadt).Marcel Christian Boßler, Er war nicht zu Zella geboren! Der Hessen-Darmstädtische Hofbüchsenmacher Johann Peter Boßler und seine Dynastie, in: Waffen- und Kostümkunde. Zeitschrift für Waffen- und Kleidungsgeschichte, Sonnefeld 2020, {{ISSN|0042-9945}}, p. 155, 158.

The younger line concentrated on the business of passenger shipping (white shipping). It operated a passenger shipping company based in Bad Friedrichshall as well as two shipping companies in Neckarsteinach and Heidelberg. In the process, the family tradition of operating passenger transport on the Neckar since 1796 was advertised for tourist purposes.Reisen in Deutschland. Deutsches Handbuch für Fremdenverkehr, Vol. III, Hessen (Mitte und Süd), Saarland, Rheinland-Pfalz, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Darmstadt 1970, {{ISSN|0171-5291}}, p. 48. Members of the younger family line are considered pioneers of passenger shipping on the Neckar, as they were already active in this business field in the 1920s.

The guest list of the passenger companies run by the younger line included high personalities from the state and politics as well as furthermore foreign representatives. Descendants of the shipping entrepreneur Andreas Boßler (1884–1961) are today shareholders in the passenger shipping company Weisse Flotte Heidelberg.

Thus a family branch of the younger line is involved in one of the largest tourism companies in the shipping industry in southern Germany.[http://weisse-flotte-heidelberg.de/pdfupload/weisse_flotte__daten_und_fakten_2015.pdf Daten und Fakten – Weiße Flotte Heidelberg] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180708221037/https://weisse-flotte-heidelberg.de/pdfupload/weisse_flotte__daten_und_fakten_2015.pdf |date=2018-07-08 }} (PDF; 76 kB)

Incidentally, the piano manufacturer Henry Ackerman (1845–1923) in Marion, Ohio (Ackerman & Lowe){{Cite web |title=INSTRUMENT CATALOGS & EPHEMERA |url=https://antiquepianoshop.com/online-museum/ackerman-lowe/ |website=Antique Piano Shop|date=14 August 2017 }} belonged to the nephews of Johannes Boßler through his mother, Margaretta Ackerman(n) a née Bossler from Nieder-Modau.Charles Burleigh Galbreath, History of Ohio, Historical and Biographical in five volumes. Vol. 5, Chicago 1925, [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015070269942&view=1up&seq=648 p. 332]

• Marcel Christian Boßler: Die hessischen Büchsenmacher Boßler. Two Parts, in: Archiv für hessische Geschichte und Altertumskunde, Darmstadt 2022–2023, {{ISSN|0066-636X}}.
• Part 1. Eine Waffenmanufaktur als Komponente der hessen-darmstädtischen Jagdhistorie und Diplomatie. (2022), p. 91–130.
• Part 2. Drei Brüder, ein feurig-pulvriges Kunsthandwerk und die europäisch funkende Vetternschaft von Heinrich Philipp Boßler mit Friedrich Maximilian Klinger. (2023), p. 45–84.
• Marcel Christian Boßler: Er war nicht zu Zella geboren! Der Hessen-Darmstädtische Hofbüchsenmacher Johann Peter Boßler und seine Dynastie, in: Waffen- und Kostümkunde. Zeitschrift für Waffen- und Kleidungsgeschichte, Sonnefeld 2020, {{ISSN|0042-9945}}, p. 151–174.
• Beethoven-Haus Bonn: Die musikalische Welt des jungen Beethoven. Beethovens Verleger Heinrich Philipp Boßler, Bonn 2001.
• Helmut Betz: Historisches vom Strom. Die Neckarschiffahrt vom Treidelkahn zum Groß-Motorschiff, Vol. 5, Duisburg 1989, {{ISBN|3-924999-04-X}}, p. 53, 122, 128, 142–148.
• Hans Schneider: Der Musikverleger Heinrich Philipp Bossler 1744–1812. Mit bibliographischen Übersichten und einem Anhang Mariane Kirchgeßner und Boßler, Tutzing 1985, {{ISBN|3-7952-0500-X}}.
• Günter Benja: Personenschiffahrt in deutschen Gewässern. Vollständiges Verzeichnis aller Fahrgastschiffe und -dienste, mit 115 Schiffsfotos, Oldenburg 1975, {{ISBN|3-7979-1853-4}}, p. 34–35.
• Europa-Verkehr = European transport = Transports européens. Band 18, Otto Elsner, Darmstadt 1970, {{ISSN|0014-262X}}, p. 122–123.

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• [http://www.debinnenvaart.nl/schepen_home/?search_field=name&search_value=Bossler# freighter ships of the family Boßler in Vereniging de Binnenvaart] (Dutch)
• the [http://swb.bsz-bw.de/DB=2.1//CMD?ACT=SRCHA&IKT=1016&SRT=RLV&TRM=Familie+Bo%C3%9Fler&MATCFILTER=N&MATCSET=N&NOABS=Y&COOKIE=U998,Pbszgast,I17,B0728+,SY,NRecherche-DB,D2.1,E7dabcac6-0,A,H,R193.197.31.15,FY Boßler family] in literature (German)
• [http://thesaurus.cerl.org/record/cnp02260350 The Boßler family] in the Consortium of European Research Libraries
• [https://www.worldcat.org/de/title/bosler-family-papers-1864-1930/oclc/28288532 Bosler family papers, 1864-1930] at the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming

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