Adam Christoph Jacobi

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Adam Christoph Jacobi (born November 7, 1638 in Gundorf ; † November 14, 1689 in Leipzig ) was a German lawyer.

Life

Adam Christoph Jacobi was born as the son of the pastor and master's degree in Gundorf, Jonas Jacobi (born September 12, 1594 in Gundorf; † January 6, 1673 ibid) and his wife Maria Elisabeth born. Krumpe (9 May 1604 (baptism) in Lützen ; † unknown), daughter of Lützen mayor Christoph Krumpe, born. Adam Christoph had nine siblings, including:

  • Gottfried Jacobi (born October 24, 1634 in Gundorf; † March 30, 1718 ebanda), also pastor of Gundorf, did not become his father's substitute until 1659 and, like his father, took over the office of his father.

Adam Christoph Jacobi was raised at home by his father and by the private tutor , Magister Johann Eck , until 1651 ; then he went to Leipzig at the local St. Thomas School , where he Georg blacksmith and later rector of the Dresdner Cross School was taught Johann August Egenolf (1632-1688). He then went briefly to the Rutheneum grammar school in Gera , but returned to Leipzig in 1653 to study philosophy with Hieronymus Kromayer , Christian Friedrich Franckenstein and Jakob Thomasius at Leipzig University .

After a decision by the Electoral Saxon Council of the Law Faculty, Friedrich Kühlewein, also Mayor of the City of Leipzig, Adam Christoph Jacobi was finally allowed to study law. His teachers were Gustav Adolph Husan, Quirinus Schacher and Heinrich Volckmar as well as Georg Tobias Schwendendörffer , Franz Romanus and Bartholomäus Leonhard von Schwendendörffer . He learned legal practice from Johann Christoph Marci , who was then elected privy councilor and Chancellor of Merseburg , from Johann Philippi and from his cousin Johann Balthasar Krumpe. He finished his studies in Leipzig in June 1659 as a legal candidate and then continued to study in various law firms until 1661.

1661 the city council of Dresden appointed Adam Christoph Jacobi as city ​​clerk on October 26th . Due to his knowledge of the law, he was soon entrusted with the private business of the Friesen privy councilors. He was also involved in the complicated Gräflich-Solmschen and Stollberg legal processes of his time.

In 1666 Adam Christoph Jacobi was elected senator to one of Dresden's councilors. In 1668 he was also appointed by Elector Johann Georg II to be an advocate for the poor at the Dresden Court of Appeal . In 1671 he quit his job as town clerk and obtained his doctorate in law from the University of Wittenberg . In the same year he was appointed assessor at the Upper Consistory in Dresden, where he was appointed to the Electoral Saxon Appellate Council in 1673 and later to the so-called Elder Upper Consistorial Council. Finally, he was also in 1677 by the City Council of Dresden to the city counsel appointed. In the same year he was also appointed to the church council by the Saxon elector. In 1684 the Saxon elector, Johann Georg III, raised him to the rank of privy councilor .

Adam Christoph Jacobi was the owner of the manor on Gröbern near Niederau and from Zscheila and Niederfehra near Meißen . He founded a new church in Gröbern from his financial donations alone.

Immediately after the wedding of his eldest son Christian Benjamin Jacobi on November 12, 1689 in Leipzig, Adam Christoph Jacobi suffered a stroke, from which he died two days later.

Adam Christoph Jacobi married Maria Gertrud (1645–1711) on November 16, 1663. She was the daughter of the Dresden legal consultant and city counsel Georg Börner (1595–1676). They had fifteen children together:

  • Christian Benjamin Jacobi (* 1665 in Dresden; † August 17/18, 1706 in Leipzig), became a doctor of both rights, lawyer at the Upper Court of Electoral Saxony, the spiritual consistory of Leipzig and assessor of the regional court in the Margraviate of Niederlausitz , later councilor and city judge in Leipzig; married the daughter of Leipzig councilmen, Johann Sieber, landowner on Plaußig ;
  • Carl Christoph Jacobi, studied law and was a legal candidate at the time of his father's death;
  • Heinrich August Jacobi, he went to school with his brother Johann Adam Jacobi when his father died in Bischofswerda;
  • Johann Adam Jacobi (born November 7, 1638 in Gundorf; † November 14, 1689 in Leipzig), Saxon legal scholar and lawyer, among other things as electoral Saxon appellant and senior consistorial councilor as well as councilor and city syndic of Dresden, most recently with the rank and title of one Church and privy council. He was also the owner of the manor on Gröbern near Niederau and from Zscheila and Niederfehra near Meißen ;
  • Friedrich Ludwig Jacobi;

as well as the following daughters:

  • Marie Sophie born Jacobi (* 1665 in Dresden; † 1711). She married on November 8, 1684 in Dresden Johann Heinrich von Berger (1657–1732), professor at the University of Wittenberg and lay judge at the court court of Saxony, at the law faculty and assessor at the regional court in the margraviate of Niederlausitz;
  • Johanna Elisabeth born Jacobi. She married Jacob Friedrich Schilling (1660–1742) from the noble family of the same name, initially a lawyer in Dresden, later a member of the senior consistory with the titles of senior consistorial and accounting council;
  • Magdalena Gertraude Jacobi (* 1669; † before 1705), married to Johann Christian Schwarzbach (* December 14, 1656 in Reichenau near Zittau ; † October 23, 1734 in Dresden), Dresden mayor from 1719 to 1732;
  • Christiane Dorothea Jacobi;
  • Christine Margarethe Jacobi,
  • Rachel Eleonore Jacobi. She later married the royal Polish and electoral Saxon court and judiciary Gottfried Benedikt Kresse (1665–1727). One of her grandsons was Dresden's mayor Friedrich Benedict Sigismund Seyfried (1727–1786);
  • Henriette Hedwig Jacobi, married to the Dresden councilor David Heinrich Rüdiger (* October 1667 in Freiberg ; † January 7, 1713 in Dresden);
  • Charlotte Jacobi.

The other two children, Georg Gottlieb Jacobi and Martin Friedrich Jacobi, died in childhood before their father.

Fonts (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German biography: Jacobi, Adam Christoph - German biography. Retrieved June 25, 2018 .
  2. ^ Adam Christoph Jacobi - Stadtwiki Dresden. Retrieved June 25, 2018 .
  3. ^ ADB: Jacobi, Adam Christoph - Wikisource. Retrieved June 25, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Church book of Lützen 1547-1633, p. 313 .
personal data
SURNAME Jacobi, Adam Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jacobi, Adam-Christophorus; Jacobi, Adam-Christoph; Jacobi, Adam-Christopherus; Jacobi, Adamus Christophorus; Jacobi, Adamus Christopherus; Jacobus, Adamus Christophorus; Jacobi, Adam Christopf; Jacobi, Adam C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1638
PLACE OF BIRTH Gundorf
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1689
Place of death Leipzig