Andreas Nitsche
Andreas Nitsche ( Upper Sorbian Handrij Nyča ; born November 17, 1731 in Seidau near Bautzen , † July 18, 1795 in Mengelsdorf ) was a Sorbian traveler and scholar from Upper Lusatia in Saxony .
Vita
Nitsche's parents were Andreas Nitsche, residents of Seidau, and Ms. Anna geb. Mieth from Burk . Nitsche initially received religious instruction from the Seidau schoolmaster Karl before he attended the Gersdorff School in Uhyst / Spree for two years and then the grammar school in Bautzen. In Wittenberg and Leipzig , where he was a member of the Wendische Predigergesellschaft there, he first studied law , later a. a. Philosophy and chemistry . After completing his studies, he made several long trips through Europe, he will visit Denmark , Poland , Austria , in Switzerland , in the Netherlands , to England and especially into the Russian Empire led, where he attended the university in Moscow a Taught philosophy for a year. During his second stay in Russia, he found accommodation in the house of the Imperial Secret Councilor Michael von Soltikoff. After his marriage to his third daughter Marie von Soltikoff and their return to Upper Lusatia together, he was given the title of Electoral Saxon Court Councilor. In 1776 he acquired the Löbensmüh estate near Mengelsdorf in Upper Lusatia and settled there in 1780. Jacob Hermann Obereit visited him in Löbensmüh for a long time.
Andreas Nitsche died in 1795 after a nervous fever and was buried in the Wendish churchyard in Bautzen. He had no biological children, but adopted his nephew Andreas from Bautzen and thus founded the Upper Lusatian branch of the Nitsche family .
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- Friedrich Schlichtegroll: Nekrolog for the year 1798. , Justus Perthes, Gotha 1803, pp. 59–65 ( online )
- Christian Gottlieb Kauffer : A brief outline of the history of Mengelsdorf . Sr. Well Born Tit. Deb. Mr. Andreas Nitsche, the Arzney danger Doktorn, at his marriage with tit. deb. Dedicated to Demoiselle Christianen Friederiken Modrach accompanied by the most honest wishes. Burghart: Görlitz 1800. pp. 12–15.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rudolf Jenč: Stawizny serbskeho pismowstwa. Ludowe nakładnistwo Domowina, Budyšin 1954, p. 138
- ↑ Dr. Adolph Carl Peter Callisen: Medicinisches Writer Lexicon of the now living authors , Copenhagen 1843, p. 52
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nitsche, Andreas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nyča, Handrij (Sorbian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Sorbian traveler and scholar, Saxon councilor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 17, 1731 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Seidau |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 18, 1795 |
| Place of death | Mengelsdorf |