Carpzov

Ancestral home of the family: Carpzow's house

Coats of arms of the Carpzow and Lintholtz families above the old portal of the Carpzow house (Saldria since 1893)

The Carpzov family (also Carpzow , Karpzov , Karpzow ) is a famous Saxon family of scholars from the 16th to 18th centuries. It comes from Simon Carpzow († 1580), who was mayor of the new town of Brandenburg in the middle of the 16th century . The family seat is the Carpzowsche Haus in Steinstrasse in Brandenburg an der Havel .

Simon Carpzov left two sons:

Joachim Carpzov († 1598) He had four children:
- Thomas Carpzov (* 1583)
- Anna Carpzov (* 1584)
- Joachim Carpzov (1585–1628, also Carpezon , Carpenzon , Carpezan , Carpezano , Carpenzahn , Carpenzan , Carpensonius ), general field master and colonel

Benedikt Carpzov the Elder (1565–1624), Professor of Law.
He had five sons:

Benedikt Carpzov the Younger (1595–1666), a criminal lawyer and witch theorist who is considered one of the founders of German law, is one of the most famous.
August Carpzov (June 4, 1612– November 19, 1683), made outstanding contributions to the country around Coburg as a statesman.
Christian Carpzov (1605–1642) went to Frankfurt (Oder) as a professor of law .
Konrad Carpzov became Professor of Law at the University of Wittenberg and Chancellor with the Administrator of Magdeburg .
Johann Benedikt Carpzov I (June 22, 1607 - October 22, 1657) was professor of theology in Leipzig . From 2010 his epitaph can be found again in the Paulinerkirche in Leipzig.
He had the following offspring (among others):
- Johann Benedict Carpzov II (1639–1699), German Lutheran theologian, ethnologist and philologist
  - Johann Benedict Carpzov (1670–1733) Magister and Saturday preacher at St. Nicolai Church in Leipzig
    - Johann Benedikt Carpzov IV (1720–1803), professor of theology and philology at the University of Helmstedt , Abbot of Königslutter
- August Benedict Carpzov (1644–1708), German legal scholar
- Friedrich Benedict Carpzov (1649–1699), council architect in Leipzig
- Samuel Benedict Carpzov (1647–1707), court preacher in Dresden and father of
  - Johann Benedict Carpzov III. (1675–1739), historian and lawyer
    - Friedrich Benedict Carpzov II. (1702–1744), German lawyer and legal scholar
  - Johann Gottlob Carpzov (1679–1767), superintendent in Lübeck

The Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands originates from the 13th generation of Simon Carpzov.

literature

Harald Schieckel : Benedict I. Carpzov (1565–1624) and the lawyers among his descendants. Relationships of well-known scholarly families . In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History German Department . Volume 83, 1966, pp. 310ff.
Harald Schieckel: Historians and archivists among the descendants of Benedict Carpzov (1565–1624) . In: Archival Journal . Volume 65, 1969, pp. 197ff.
Pedigree of the Carpzov family . In: Realencyklopadie for Protestant Theology and Church (RE). 3. Edition. Volume 3, Hinrichs, Leipzig 1897, p. 726. ( digitized version )

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