Benjamin Gottfried Weinart (historian)

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Benjamin Gottfried Weinart (born May 4, 1751 in Dohna ; † December 1 or 9, 1813 in Dresden ) was a Saxon lawyer , financial procurator , historian and bibliographer .

Live and act

Born in Dohna as the son of theologian Benjamin Gottfried Weinart , Weinart attended the Latin school in Pirna and then studied law in Leipzig . Shortly after obtaining his master's degree with a thesis on canon law De corona nuptiali vi compressae haud deneganda in 1774, he had "thanks to his rapid literary production the reputation of a multifaceted historian and a versatile writer". At the same time as his master's thesis, he had published an economic treatise De ignorantia plebis reipublicae nociva disquisitio , which he dedicated to his fellow student, Peter Carl Wilhelm von Hohenthal .

His Topographical History of the City of Dresden and the areas around it appeared between 1777 and 1781 , which is still a "sought-after rarity" because of the numerous copper engravings .

From its Dresden working as a lawyer , he joined in 1779 as gräflich Hoym 'shear bailiff and court director in the then Saxon Ruhland in the Oberlausitz and later became Reussischer bailiff in Guteborn , Grünewald and Schwarzenbach . As a sideline, Weinart concentrated his studies on the legal history of the two Lusatians , the results of which he wrote down in several publications. His collecting activities as a bibliographer culminated in 1790/1791 in the two-volume work Attempting a Literature of Saxon History and Political Studies , a standard work that was sought after for a long time because of its abundance of material, supplemented Weinart several times and strengthened its reputation as an important bibliographer: When the bibliography of Saxon history by Rudolf Bemmann and Jakob Jatzwauk appeared in the 19th century , Weinart's work was an indispensable aid. Also from 1790 Weinart was a member of the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences .

In 1797 Weinart received his appointment as the electoral Saxon financial procurator for the offices of Senftenberg , Finsterwalde and Doberlug . At the same time he returned to Dresden to work as a lawyer and for various periodicals .

As a place of residence he bought "a vineyard with a country house near the town, which he called Weinartsruhe". This property, named Hausberg in the sales contract of January 7, 1797 , had belonged to his now widowed mother Christiane Johanna Weinartin born since 1762. Krause. For the officially named 4,000 thalers , Weinart acquired extensive ownership of vineyards and field plots along with buildings, several wells on Rieselgrund and the Kober hereditary burial with prayer room in the nearby church in Kötzschenbroda . When Weinart sold three of his vineyards for 1,700 thalers on September 14, 1798, the contract was named Weinart's rest . Today the property is known as the Minckwitzscher Weinberg .

In 1800 he gave his church the large-format oil painting The Body of Christ by an unknown hand , which can now be found under the organ loft . In the same year Weinart published the work on the Chursächsische tax constitution , the manuscript of which, however, came from Friedrich August Eichhoff (1769-1830) and was probably published without his consent. This initiated a plagiarism lawsuit , whereupon Weinart was punished with arrest in 1804 and had to pay high court and damages costs. To settle them, Weinart tried to sell parts of his library from 1806 onwards. On June 12, 1810, Weinart's rest was forcibly auctioned off with all goods on account of debt.

Weinart himself kept his post as fiscal and, although seriously ill in old age, was still listed as a legal adviser in the Dresden address calendar.

Weinart was a member of numerous institutions, including an honorary member of the Leipzig Economic Society and a member of the Saxon Wine Society in Meißen.

Contrary to the report of July 1811 in the Jenaische Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung, for which Weinart had worked as a reviewer , about his demise, according to various sources, he died on December 1 or 9, 1813 in Dresden-Neustadt. The Kober inheritance funeral no longer belonged to him.

Fonts

  • New Saxon Historical Reference Library . Dresden 1775.
  • Topographical history of the city of Dresden . Hilscher, Dresden, 1777–1781. ( Online version ).
  • Description of the Plauischer Grund near Dresden, along with a complicated message about the different types of stone, fossils and the peculiarities of the same . Hilschersche Buchhandlung, Dresden 1781. ( online version ).
  • Loan right of the margravate of Upper Lusatia, from state and provincial laws also other public documents. JGI Breitkopf, Dresden. ( Online version ).
  • An attempt at a literature on Saxon history and political science . 1790/1791. ( Online version ).
  • Comments from Benj. Gottfird Weinart on his attempt at a literature on Saxon history and political science. In: Musäum for Saxon history, literature and political science . Volume 1, Part 2, pp. 228-264. ( Online version ).
  • Literature of constitutional law and statistics of Saxony . 2 volumes, Meissen 1802.

As editor

  • Christian Adolph Klotzens satyrs. In addition to an appendix. Leipzig 1775. ( online edition )
  • Ludwig Andreas Gotter's imperial matricular notices of the entire Chur and Princely Saxon Lands, Albertine and Ernestine lines, proven with documents . Altenburg 1805.
  • Rights and customs of the two Marggrafthumers Upper and Lower Lusatia . 3 volumes, 1793–1795.
  • Friedrich August Eichhof: About the Chursächsische tax constitution . Leipzig 1800.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Weinart, Benjamin Gottfried ( memento from November 8, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) in the Biographical Lexicon of Upper Lusatia , based on Gottlieb Friedrich Otto : Lexicon of Upper Lusatian writers and artists who have died and are now living since the fifteen centuries. Görlitz 1800 ff.
  2. ↑ a b c Viktor Hantzsch:  Weinart, Benjamin Gottfried; The son . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 55, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1910, pp. 15-18.
  3. ↑ Frank Andert: "Weinarts Ruhe" in the Lößnitz. (PDF; 99 kB) Part 44. In: Kötzschenbrodaer stories. 2010, accessed July 10, 2011 .
  4. ↑ Reinhardt Eigenwill: Weinart, Benjamin Gottfried . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
  5. ↑ Changes in civil status. In: Lausizische Monatsschrift , Görlitz 1797, p. 117 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  6. ↑ Gustav Wilhelm Schubert : Chronicle and topography of the - the market town Kötzschenbroda endowed with urban justice together with the little village of Fürstenhain, the places Hof- and Niederlößnitz, also the villages of Nauendorf, Zitzschewig and Lindenau comprehensive - Parish Kötzschenbroda together with historical general notes. Mainly compiled on the basis of documented news etc. Self-published by the author (Hellmuth Henkler's printing press in Dresden), Dresden (1864 and) 1865.
  7. ^ Frank Andert: The historical portrait: Benjamin Gottfried Weinart (1751-1813). In: Preview & Review; Monthly magazine for Radebeul and the surrounding area. Radebeuler Monatshefte eV, March 2011, accessed on July 14, 2011 .
  8. ↑ Jenaische Allgemeine literatur-Zeitung, Volume 3
personal data
SURNAME Weinart, Benjamin Gottfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weinart, Benjamin; Wine type, Beniamin. Gothofr .; Weinart, Beniamin Godofredus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saxon lawyer, financial procurator, historian and bibliographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1751
PLACE OF BIRTH Dohna
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1813 or December 9, 1813
Place of death Dresden