Celestine August Just

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Celestine August Just , also Latinized as Celestine August Just , (born November 11, 1750 in Merseburg , † May 21, 1822 ) was a Saxon and Prussian civil servant. From 1794 he was the boss, friend and biographer of Novalis .

Just studied theology and law at the University of Leipzig . He became district administrator of the Thuringian district in Tennstedt . For a time he also managed the von Witzleben Foundation of the Roßleben monastery school . After the partition of Saxony, he continued to work as a Prussian civil servant in Tennstedt.

Just was married to Rahel Dorothea Christiane Strauss, a daughter of the court preacher Johann Gottfried Strauss .

Works

  • De vita et constitvtionibvs [constitutionibus] D. Pertinacis / praeside Avgvsto Friderico Schott ... defendet Coelestinvs Avgvstvs Ivst. Leipzig, Acad., Diss., 1772.
  • De disputatione fori ex antiquitate Romana. Leipzig 1775.
  • About public worship in closed schools: When Mr. Hennike was employed as a substitute pastor and religious teacher in the Closter School in Roßleben / by the Creißamtmann Just zu Tennstedt. Erfurt: Keysersche Buchh., 1790.
  • About the character and value of the most excellent educational and teaching institutes of our age: together with a continued message about the current state of the Closter School Roßleben / Vom Creißamtmann Just zu Tennstedt. Gotha: Perthes, 1795.
  • Friedrich von Hardenberg . In: Nekrolog der Teutschen for the nineteenth century. Edited by Friedrich Schlichtegroll . Vol. 4, Gotha 1805, pp. 187-241. At the same time as a separate print udT: In memory of Friedrich von Hardenberg. Gotha 1805.
  • About the relationships between the Count's House of Stolberg and the Churhaus in Saxony . Craz, Freiberg 1801 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Novalis in testimonies of his contemporaries Friedrich Schlegel, Karl von Hardenberg, Ludwig Tieck, August Coelestin Just. Afterword by Heinz Ritter. Stuttgart 1973 (Thinking - Looking - Sense, Vol. 43/44).
  • Christian Ahcin: On the emergence of the civil code for the Kingdom of Saxony from 1863/65 . Frankfurt a. M .: Vittorio Klostermann, 1996. (p. 58/9)
personal data
SURNAME Just, Celestine August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Just, Celestine August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saxon and Prussian officials
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1750
PLACE OF BIRTH Merseburg
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1822