Carl Friedrich Trier (lawyer)

Carl Friedrich Trier (born August 11, 1726 in Dresden , † September 29, 1794 in Leipzig ) was a German lawyer and councilor from Leipzig.

Life

After finishing school in Dresden, Carl Friedrich Trier studied law and mathematics at the universities in Leipzig and Wittenberg . At the latter he received his doctorate in law (Dr. jur.) In 1750 . When he returned to Leipzig, he lived with his uncle of the same name, the later Leipzig mayor Carl Friedrich Trier, in the New Neumarkt (Neumarkt since 1839) and took up the municipal services.

In 1764 he was listed in the Leipzig address book among the members of the Leipzig city council as the electoral Saxon council of appeals. In the same book he is recorded as a deputy of the Leipzig Council for the wool and flax scales as well as the baker's, Böttger and tailor's guilds.

In 1766 he became a member of the Freemason Lodge Minerva to the three palms and in 1768 in the learned society Leopoldina , where he was given the academic name Anaximander III. wore. In 1790 he is listed as proconsul, head of the new Leipzig church and member of the economic society . Also in 1790 he donated a large part of his library to the Leipzig University.

Carl Friedrich Trier was the owner of the Trier Garden , one of the baroque gardens surrounding Leipzig in the 18th century . After the death of the Trier couple, this was transferred to the University of Leipzig in a will, for which they in return had to set up a midwifery school ( Triersches Institut ), from which the gynecological institute of the university clinic developed, which still bears the name Triersches Institut as an addition . The garden became the university's botanical garden .

family

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  Trier monument behind the former women's clinic

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  Grave plaque in the old Johannisfriedhof

Carl Friedrich Trier came from a family of civil servants and lawyers, which goes back to the Meiningen city ​​judge and city scholar Johann Wolfgang Trier (1619–1688), who was Carl Friedrich's great-grandfather. Carl Friedrich's father was the electoral Saxon court and mountain ridge Philipp Friedrich Trier.

Carl Friedrich fell in love with his cousin Caroline Friederike (1725–1771), whom he married in 1750, at his uncle's house in Leipzig. The couple lived in the house of their father-in-law and uncle and took it over after his death in 1763.

Eleven months after his wife's death in 1772, he married his wife's girlfriend, Rahel Amalia Augusta, née Beyer (1731-1806). Both marriages remained childless. Rahel Amalia Augusta had a memorial for the friendship and love of these three people set on an island in Trier's garden , which has been restored since 1997 in the garden of the former women's clinic on Philipp-Rosenthal-Straße. On one of the inscription panels it says "Friendship united us three - love two and two".

Web links

Commons : Carl Friedrich Trier  - Collection of Images

• André Loh-Kliesch: Trier, Karl Friedrich. In: Leipzig biography. Retrieved October 17, 2019 . 
• Karl Friedrich Trier. In: Stadtwiki Dresden. Retrieved October 22, 2019 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gina Klank, Gernoth Griebsch: Encyclopedia Leipziger street names . Ed .: City Archives Leipzig. 1st edition. Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 , p. 156 .
2. ↑ Leipzig address, post and travel calendar 1764. Retrieved on October 17, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Leipzig address, post and travel calendar 1790. Retrieved on October 17, 2019 . 
4. ^ Friedhilde Krause, Waltraut Guth, Dietmar Debes, Severin Corsten, Bernhard Fabian: Handbook of historical book stocks. Sachsen AK , Hildesheim 1997, p. 31 (digitized version)
5. ↑ Nadja Horsch, Simone Tübbecke (Ed.): Citizens. Gardens. Promenades - Leipzig garden culture in the 18th and 19th centuries. Passage Verlag, Leipzig 2018, ISBN 978-3-95415-072-4 , pp. 120–125
6. ↑ Markus Cottin, Gina Klank, Karl-Heinz Kretzschmar, Dieter Kürschner, Ilona Petzold: Leipzig monuments . Sax-Verlag Beucha 1998, ISBN 3-930076-71-3 , Volume 1 pp. 76/77