Johann Friedrich Armand von Uffenbach
Johann Friedrich Armand von Uffenbach (1687 - 1769) was an architect, lawyer and German scholar, also librettist and informed music lover.
Resulting from a rich person family of the middle-class of Frankfurt, it occupied of high positions in the administration of the city, belonged to the Municipal council and became in 1762 burgomaster of Frankfurt.
After studies with Giessen and Market, he had undertaken a voyage two years in Europe, which led it in Switzerland, Italy (he met Antonio Vivaldi there), in France and to the Netherlands, being interested in multiple scientific and artistic disciplines, with the monuments: operas, theaters, churches, palate, visiting the libraries, the exposures and collections of works of Article It brought back of this voyage a importantecollection of documents, books, paintings, drawings, musical instruments and scientists who entered after his death in possession of the University of Göttingen.
His/her older brother Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach (1683 - 1743) was a bibliophile and collector of manuscripts of European fame. Its library gathered 40.000 books and was one of the most important collections private of Germany.
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