Adam Anton von Meyern

Adam Anton von Meyern , actually Adam Anton Meyer (* 1700 in Bayreuth , † 1774 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German administrative lawyer.

Life

Adam Anton von Meyern was a son of the imperial postmaster in Bayreuth Johann Anton Meyer. He attended the high school in Hof and from 1714 to 1719 the Christian-Ernestinum high school in Bayreuth. From 1719 he studied law and philosophy at the University of Jena . In 1722 he received a master's degree with a disputation chaired by Kaspar Achatius Beck . For further studies he went to Vienna , where he dealt with the constitution of the empire in such a way that after the death of the ambassador from Ansbach-Bayreuth in 1736 he was appointed secret legation councilor and raised to the nobility.

In 1742 he was called back to Bayreuth. He became secret landscape and chairman of the chamber council, in 1743 the actual chamber director and in 1746 received a seat and vote as a minister in the high secret council college.

In 1746 he had a palace built by the Bayreuth court architect Joseph Saint-Pierre at the racecourse. Then Margrave Friedrich III appointed him . 1747 also director of the court building department. In the same year Meyern sold the palace to the court chamber; it later became the basis for the south wing of the New Palace .

In 1748 there was a rift between Meyern and his sovereign. Meyern was transferred to Erlangen as governor. He was also Oberamtmann von Baiersdorf and, as successor to Daniel de Superville Curator, Canzler and Director of the University of Erlangen and the two high schools in Bayreuth and Erlangen.

He drafted various plans to expand the university, but could not get them through with the Margrave. So he left the civil service in 1752 and retired to his estate in Zwingenberg (Bergstrasse) . From here he advised various princes. His widow sold Zwingenberg to Friedrich Karl von Moser .

His younger brother Johann Gottlob von Meyern was first a Bavarian chamberlain, court and landscape councilor, but then in 1763 he was appointed to Braunschweig and appointed to the land of the Weser district in Holzminden.

Fonts

• De iure postarum. 1719
• De vera indole feudi et officii nobilis. Jena 1722

literature

• Georg Wolfgang Augustin Fikenscher: Scholars Principality of Bayreuth: Or biographical and literary news from all writers who were born in the Principality of Baireut and who lived in or outside of it and are still alive: in alphabetical order. Maier to Otto, Volume 6, Nuremberg: Lechner 1803, pp. 50–51