Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Zincken

Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Zincken (* 1729 in Halle ; † August 2, 1806 in Seesen ) was a German lawyer and judicial officer in the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel .

Life

Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Zincken, grew up a. a. in Weimar, Leipzig and Braunschweig, son of the economist and lawyer Georg Heinrich Zincken , studied at the University of Helmstedt a . a. with his father law and after his studies in the service of the Duke of Brunswick worked as a fiscal and auditor and u. a. Member of the Ducal German Society in Helmstedt. From 1776 to 1781 he took part in the American War of Independence as a staff auditor , later as auditor general of the Brunswick troops , and in 1783 he was appointed court advisor and court school in Seesen .

From his first wife Sophie, whom he married in 1762 and with whom he had two children, a. a. the later court medicus and entomologist Julius Leopold Theodor Friedrich Zincken (called Sommer) (1770-1856), he divorced after his return from America, and remarried in February 1791 in Seesen. The mineralogist Johann Ludwig Carl Zincken , who was born in Seesen on June 13, 1791, emerged from this marriage .

Together with Israel Jacobson , the Freemason Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Zincken founded a reform school in Seesen in 1801 , the so-called Jacobson School , a religious and industrial school where Jewish and Christian children were to be educated together, for example in the enlightened sense of Lessing's " Ring Parable ".

His son Johann Ludwig Carl and a nephew of the Braunschweig-born composer Ludwig Spohr were among the first Christian students .

Works

• Short and clear introduction to war legal scholarship in Germany: for prospective auditors and officers . Hechtel, Helmstedt [u. a.] 1771 (Original form of the publication note: Helmstädt and Magdeburg, published by the Commercien-Rath Hechtel, 1771).
• Legal economic rates and clauses in contracts, buying, selling, leasing and administering public or private goods, as far as a landlord and cammeralist must acquire knowledge of them. In addition to a preface, which contains the life of the former HBC Hof- und Cammerrath… Georg Heinrich Zinken . Hartknoch, Riga 1772.