Carl Peter Lepsius

Carl Peter Lepsius, lithograph

Carl Peter Lepsius (born June 25, 1775 in Naumburg (Saale) , † April 23, 1853 ibid) was an ancient scholar, historian, writer, civil servant, mayor and district administrator of Naumburg (Saale).

Life

Carl Peter Lepsius was born the son of the mayor of Naumburg Johann August Lepsius (1745–1801). After completing his training at the Domgymnasium Naumburg , he went to Jena in 1793 to study law. He finished his studies in Leipzig . After returning to Naumburg, he worked in the magistrate's college first as an assessor, later (1810) as a city judge and as a lawyer. In 1812 he was appointed financial procurator for the Thuringian district and in 1815 director of the Inquisitoriats founded in Naumburg and soon afterwards he was appointed district administrator of the Naumburg district . In 1841 he resigned from the public service. He died in Naumburg in 1853 at the age of 77.

On July 23, 1801 he was accepted into the Archimedis Freemason Lodge to the three drawing boards in Altenburg / Saxony and became a master there in 1803. In 1815 he was a co-founder of the re-establishment of the lodge to the three hammers ( aux trois Marteaux ) in the Orient Naumburg / Saale, which was closed again in 1819.

Lepsius was married to Friederike (1778–1819), b. Glasses (daughter of the composer Carl Ludwig Traugott Glaeser ). After her untimely death he married her sister Julie (1794–1875). The marriages resulted in nine children, among them the well-known Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius .

In 1819, Carl Peter Lepsius founded the Thuringian-Saxon Association for the Study of Patriotic Antiquity and the Preservation of Its Monuments (Thuringian-Saxon History Association) and published the Naumburger Kreisblatt for the first time in 1821 .

Works

• The legend of the Hussites of Naumburg and the origin of the Naumburg cherry festival, historically and critically examined. 1811 (digitized version)
• About the history and antiquities of Gross - Jena's . In: Friedrich CH Kruse (Hrsg.): Archive for ancient geography, history and antiquities, in particular of the Germanic tribes. Leipzig 1822, pp. 147–157.
• Großjena coin find. In: Archives for ancient geography, history and antiquities. 1. Vol., Issue 1-3, 1822, p. 135.
• About antiquity and the founders of the Naumburg Cathedral and its statues in the western choir. Naumburg 1822.
• About the location of the old imperial palace Dornburg . In: Kruse's German antiquities. Archive, Vol. I., Issue 4, 1823.
• The ruins of the Rudelsburg . Bürger, Naumburg 1824. (digitized version)
• Document collection of the Naumburg cathedral chapter. In: German antiquities. or Friedrich CH Kruse (Hrsg.): Archive for ancient and middle history, geography and antiquities. In addition to a chronicle of the Thuringian-Saxon Association for Research into Patriotic Antiquity. 1824, p. 40ff.
• On the history of the fortification of the city of Naumburg. 1826.
• Historical news from the Augustinian monastery of St. Moritz zu Naumburg. 1835.
• Report on the election and introduction of Nikolaus von Amsdorf as Bishop of Naumburg. Förstemann, 1835.
• Historical news from the St. Clarenkloster in Weissenfels . 1837.
• with L. Puttrich and GW Geyser (the younger) (eds.): The city church and the castle chapel in Freiburg on the Unstrut. Brockhaus publishing house, 1839.
• Genealogical message from the Schenken zu Saaleck : fragment and sample of a history of the castle and the former dynasty of this taking. The series of Evangelical Pastors in Saaleck, Klaffenbach Verlag, 1843.
• The Naumburg Cathedral , described and archaeologically explained according to the instructions of documented sources with a few additions about other medieval buildings in this city. In: Ludwig Puttrich (Hrsg.): Monuments of the architecture of the Middle Ages in Saxony. first volume, second section, 1836–1843.
• History of the bishops of the Naumburg bishopric before the Reformation : a contribution to the history of the Easter country , with a document book and drawings. 1846. (digitized version)
• To commemorate the introduction of the general town order and the first Naumburg town council meeting on February 6, 1832. Littfas, 1848.
• Review of the suffering of the local landscape in the war years 1806–1813: and the events organized to alleviate them, as well as the great support given by the Westminster Association in London. Eckartshaus Publishing House, 1851.
• About the concept and essence of Investura Saxonica or the judicial lending according to Saxon law: in relation to one of Mr. Crimin. Rath Kayser published processual pamphlet on this subject. Wild 1820.
• The ancestral owners of the Lepsius family since the last decade of the seventeenth century, a memorandum dedicated to the newborn on the day of his baptism on November 9, 1851 Sieling, Naumburg 1851. (digitized version )
• Small writings, contributions to Thuringian-Saxon history and German art and antiquity. collected u. partly for the first time in the handwritten estate of the author. Ed. A. Schulz (San-Marte) 3 vols., Magdeburg , Creutz, 1854–55.
• The ruins of the Rudelsburg u. Saaleck is shown in their historical relationships according to documented news . Creutz, Magdeburg 1854. (digitized version)
• Annals of the Masonic Lodge to the three hammers. (Manuscript)

literature

• A. Schulz: Supplement from A. General. Newspaper. August 25, 1853 and the biography In: Karl Peter Lepsius: Kleinen Schriften. Part 1.
• Carl Heinrich August Steinhart: Words of Memory of Carl Peter Lepsius. spoken at the celebration of his memory in Schulpforta on May 23, 1853. Printed by Gebr. Unger, 1853.
• M. Rainer Lepsius: Richard Lepsius and Carl Peter Lepsius: - two great sons of Naumburg. In: Saale-Unstrut-Yearbook. Vol. 4 (1999), pp. 69-80.
• Richard Schröder: History of Freemasonry in Naumburg as, on behalf of the guv st. Joh. Depicted on the three hammers. Naumburg 1896, pp. 188-189.
• Franz Xaver von Wegele :  Lepsius, Karl Peter . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 418 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Carl Peter Lepsius in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Carl Peter Lepsius  in the German Digital Library