August Carl Alexander von Zanthier

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August Carl Alexander von Zanthier (born September 1, 1734 in Prosigk , † May 18, 1815 in Güsten ) was a Hessian and Anhalt court official and economic author.

Life

Zanthier is the son of the royal Polish and electoral Saxon governor George Heinrich von Zanthier auf Prosigk and Johanna Charlotta born. von Hundt and Altengrottkau. The young man came into contact with the young Count Johann (Hans) Martin zu Stolberg-Roßla (1728–1795), who later became canon in Halberstadt , through schooling at the Lyceum in Wernigerode . This probably made sure that his cousin Count Heinrich Ernst zu Stolberg -Wernigerode renounced the Electenstelle offered to him at the Halberstadt Monastery and left it to the young August Carl Alexander von Zanthier in 1740.

On February 25, 1762 he married Wilhelmine Tugendreich von Madai (1738-1812). The Anhalt-Koethensche Hofrat Carl August von Madai was his brother-in-law.

In 1769 Zanthier was found in the Hessian civil service. He rose to chamberlain, war and domain councilor as well as office director of the Landgrave of Hessen-Darmstadt and wrote several publications on statesmanship and forestry. At the end of the 18th century he entered the service of the Duke of Anhalt-Zerbst . He later settled in Güsten, where he acquired an estate that remained in the family after his death. Furthermore, Zanthier became director of the noble fräuleinstift in Mosigkau .

Trivia

LKR politician Bernd Lucke comes from the descendants of his daughter Maria Eleonore Wilhelmine Henriette Bäntsch, née von Zanthier .

Works

  • Appropriate precautions against the grain taxes that have broken out and intolerable means of preventing any future one , Leipzig, 1805
  • Cheerful thoughts about lack of wood, wood prices, wood savings and wood cultivation , Göttingen: Dieterich, 1802
  • Bold thoughts on the causes of the decline of most of the country towns and the means to help them up again , Leipzig: Nagel, 1799

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Family history of Bernd Lucke. Retrieved May 23, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Zanthier, August Carl Alexander von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German court official and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1734
PLACE OF BIRTH Prosigk
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1815
Place of death Güsten