August Carpzov
August Carpzov (born June 4, 1612 in Colditz ; † November 19, 1683 in Coburg ) was a German lawyer and statesman who made a special contribution to the state of Saxony-Coburg .
Life
August Carpzov comes from the Saxon family of scholars Carpzov. He was the son of Benedikt Carpzov the Elder . At the age of fourteen he moved to Wittenberg University , moved to Leipzig University and later went to Jena University . During his twelve years of study he devoted himself to general topics and dealt with law. He accompanied his brother Konrad Carpzov 1636 to Regensburg electors was 1637 lawyer at Hofgericht in Wittenberg and received his doctorate in the following year to the doctor of jurisprudence.
He then became a private lecturer and served the sons of the Electorate Court preacher Matthias Hoë von Hoënegg as a legal advisor. As a result, he gained the trust of an influential person who advised him not to take on a professorship in law. Instead he went to Count Johann Martin in Stolberg as a councilor in 1644 . In the following year he was appointed court advisor to Duke Friedrich Wilhelm II of Saxony-Altenburg and turned down the positions offered to him as assessor at the Dresden Court of Justice and at the Schöppenstuhl in Leipzig.
As the Duke's envoy, he took part in the peace negotiations in Münster and Osnabrück from 1645 to 1649 , which led to the Peace of Westphalia , which ended the Thirty Years War . He also took part in the Nuremberg Execution Day from 1649 to 1650 . During the negotiations there, he was appointed Chancellor of Saxony-Coburg in 1649 , taking over the office of Consistorial President and becoming the overseer of the Coburg Chamber. In an almost governor's position, he directed the fortunes of the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg after the Thirty Years War, which fell to Altenburg in 1640. In 1660 he bought a city residence in Coburg in today's Judengasse.
In 1672 Saxe-Altenburg and Coburg came to the House of Saxe-Gotha under Ernst the Pious and from then on, like the entire country, was administered by a government college in Gotha , to which Carpzov belonged from 1675 as protosolarch and privy councilor , for which he moved to Gotha. Since the attempt to hold court together at Friedenstein Castle in Gotha failed, the inheritance was divided among the seven brothers in 1680. Carpzov then asked Duke Friedrich I of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg to dismiss him as Coburg Chancellor and only remained a privy councilor by default. He settled again in Coburg, where he spent his retirement and died in 1683.
The traditions describe August Carpzov as a benevolent man firmly anchored in the faith, who in his marriage to Sabina Elisabeth von Anckelmann had five children since 1650 . With numerous donations he supported social institutions, wrote legal dissertations and a writ of edification (“The crucified Jesus” 1679).
literature
- Carpzov, Augustus. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 5, Leipzig 1733, column 1133.
- Theodor Muther: Carpzov, August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 10.
- Christian Boseckert: A street tells the story of Coburg - from the past of Judengasse and its residents . In: Series of publications of the historical society e. V., Volume 22 , Coburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-9810350-4-9 .
- Johann Friedrich Jugler: Contributions to the legal biography. Verlag Johann Samuel Heinsius, Leipzig 1773 ( online )
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Carpzov, August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lawyer and statesman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 4, 1612 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Colditz |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 19, 1683 |
| Place of death | Coburg , Germany |