Johann Gottlob Nathusius (April 30, 1760 – July 23, 1835) was a German

industrialist A business magnate, also known as an industrialist or tycoon, is a person who is a powerful entrepreneur and investor who controls, through personal enterprise ownership or a dominant shareholding position, a firm or industry whose goods or ser ...

. Nathusius was born in Baruth, and learned the trade of a

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, later joining the

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Sengewald in

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. After the death of the company's owner he took over the business, which prospered under his management, particularly with the establishment of a

tobacco Tobacco is the common name of several plants in the genus '' Nicotiana'' of the family Solanaceae, and the general term for any product prepared from the cured leaves of these plants. More than 70 species of tobacco are known, but the ...

factory (''Richter & Nathusius'') in 1787 together with his partner Richter; after the death of this partner and the partner's widow, he became its full owner. After the reestablishment of a royal tobacco monopoly, he became a royal factory manager; however under

Frederick William III Frederick William III (; 3 August 1770 – 7 June 1840) was King of Prussia from 16 November 1797 until his death in 1840. He was concurrently Elector of Brandenburg in the Holy Roman Empire until 6 August 1806, when the empire was dissolved. ...

he again regained complete control. The decline in the economy under the

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enabled him to purchase the Althaldensleben monastery and Schloss Hundisburg, and on these estates he developed a comprehensive set of industries, including breweries, flour mills, a sugar factory, a brickyard, a machinery production and a stoneware and porcelain factory. When Nathusius was 48, he married 18-year-old Luise Engelhard. He died in Althaldensleben. Two sons of his,

Hermann von Nathusius Hermann Engelhard von Nathusius (9 December 1809 – 29 June 1879) was a German animal husbandry, animal breeder. Born in Magdeburg to industrialist Johann Gottlob Nathusius, Hermann von Nathusius studied the natural sciences. He took over from ...

and Wilhelm von Nathusius were noted animal breeders and contributed to agricultural research. Another child was the publisher Philipp von Nathusius. His daughter Luise married the

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and

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Dr. Louis Pfeiffer.

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