Carl Gottfried Engelschall

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Carl Gottfried Engelschall (* in the 17th or 18th century; † December 31, 1760 ) was a German lawyer, Electoral Saxon commissioner and bailiff of the Torgau office .

Life

He was the son of the Oelsnitz court preacher Carl Gottfried Engelschall (1675-1738) in Dresden, who was appointed third court preacher there in 1707.

In the tradition of his father, he first embarked on a spiritual career and became a licentiate . Ultimately, however, he decided to do the administrative service and in 1734 took over the position of bailiff in Torgau. As such, he took on several electoral commissions.

In 1750 he acquired from the widow of the Torgau governor Christoph Heinrich von Leipziger, who died in 1748, his inheritance and freedoms Mahla in front of the city gates of Torgau .

Carl Gottfried Engelschall died on New Year's Eve 1760. In his will of December 3, 1759, he had his last wife Johanna Eleonora nee as the universal heiress. Hansel used. The children from previous marriages received only their compulsory portions. The widow sold the Mahla estate on in 1766.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Magazine of Saxon History , 1785, p. 34