Christfried Wächtler

Christfried Wächtler (born November 18, 1652 in Grimma , † September 5, 1732 in Dresden ) was a German lawyer and polyhistor.

Life

Wächtler came from an Evangelical Lutheran pastor family. He was the son of the archdeacon in Grimma Jacob Wächtler and his wife Elisabeth Margaretha Bake, a daughter of the former superintendent of Grimma Reinhard Bake . After attending the city school in his hometown, he became a student of the electoral Saxon state school St. Afra in Meißen on March 28, 1663 . In Meißen, the then rector Johann Georg Wilke and the then vice rector Gottfried Sternberger exerted a formative influence on the adolescents' education. With this in mind, he moved to the University of Leipzig in 1668 , where he initially completed philosophical studies with Valentin Alberti , Otto Mencke , Jakob Thomasius and Christian Friedrich Franckenstein . He also attended lectures on theology given by Adam Rechenberg and Johannes Olearius and also dealt with legal issues.

On July 16, 1670 he acquired the academic degree of a Baccalaurus of Philosophy in Leipzig and moved to Dresden on May 1, 1672, where he worked with the lawyer at the Appellate Court Dr. jur. Gottfried Fuhrmann gained his first practical experience in the field of law. He then moved back to Leipzig in May 1674, where he conducted further legal studies with Bartholomäus Leonhard von Schwendendörffer , Gottfried Schilter and Romanus Teller. In October 1675 he became an actuary in the electoral Saxon office of Wolkenstein and in 1677 joined Reinhardt Dietrich von Taube as secretary. After he had obtained his licentiate in law at the University of Wittenberg on October 16, 1680 , he worked as a lawyer in Dresden and received his doctorate in Wittenberg on September 20, 1688 as a doctor of law.

Wächtler had covered a wide range of topics in his primarily legal work. So he worked on questions in the field of philosophical and theological sciences, whereby he could fall back on a rich spectrum of knowledge of the Greek and Latin languages. He also dealt with critical comments on church history and philosophy. He acted on a source basis without overloading his works with it. Christiaan Hendrik Pots published a fund of his works in 1733. In addition to his explicit work, there are various treatises in the Acta Eruditorum .

Wächtler married Anna Margaretha Berlich on October 14, 1691 in Dresden (born August 2, 1651 in Dresden; † March 9, 1729 there), the daughter of Burchard Berlich (born April 23, 1603 in Frauenprießnitz; † August 1, 1670 in Dresden ) and his third wife Barbara Hilliger (born April 12, 1618 in Jena; † January 9, 1663 in Dresden). Two sons of this marriage died young. The only daughter, Dorothea Elisabeth Wächtler, married the theologian Christoph Heinrich Zeibich in 1713 .

Works (selection)

Diss. De societatis ciuilis statu naturali et legali. President Jacob Thomasius. Leipzig 1671
Dissertation Moralis De Justitia & Jure Belli Primi Punici, ex Joh. Freinshemi [i] Suppl. Liv. Libb. XVI. XVII. XVIII. & XIX. Pres. Jakob Thomasius . Leipzig 1674 (online)
QBV De Societatis Civilis Statu Naturali Ac Legali, dissertatio politica. President Jacob Thomasius. Leipzig 1675 (online)
Disp. inaug. de gradibus culpae in contractibus. President Joachim Nerger . Wittenberg 1680 (online)
Lectiones Grotianae. I. Leipzig 1680
Ad Ulpiani LV par. II. Commod. & L. XXIII. d. RI Sive De Gradibus Culpae In Contractibus Commentatio Inauguralis. Wittenberg 1680 ( online , doctoral program)
Recitationes singularum legum Tit. D. de Evictionibus, Ubi Illustratio Textuum per Continuam Paraphrasin unice Tentatur. Dresden 1680 (online)
Lectiones Grotianae. II. Wittenberg 1682
Epistola de numero Jurium in re, ad virum Celeberrimum DD Barthol. Leonhardum Svendendorferum, Jc. & Antecess Lipsiensem. Dresden 1682 (online)
Notae ad Gerhardi Noodt, Icti et Antecessoris, Probabilium juris ciuilis libros III. Wittenberg 1681
De vetere iure enucleando, ad N. Silium diaspasma. Strasbourg 1684 (online)
Epistola ad Maurit. Henr. LB a Miltiz, Principis Elector. Saxoniae ad Comitia Ratisbonensia Legatum. Dresden 1690
Epistola altera ad eundem. Dresden 1692
Epistola ad Ge. Adam Struuium, Ictum saxonicum. Dresden 1692
Epistola ad Joh. Casp. de Loos, Ducis Saxo-Weissenfelsensis supremum Marchallum et Consiliarium intimu. Dresden 1693
Epistola ad Joh. Ge. Boernerum, ictum, caet. Dresden 1694
Epistola ad Joh. Abrah. Birnbaum, Elector. Saxon. Consiliarium intimum. Dresden 1696
Ad Virum Illustrem Jacobum Bornium JC. Potent. Elect. Saxoniae Consiliarium Intimum. Dresden 1697 (online)
Epistola ad Chr. Dieter. Bosium, Poloniarum Regis et Elect. Saxoniae Consiliarium intimum, caet. Dresden 1698
Cancellariis Veterum Commentatio. Dresden 1705 (online)
Epistola de codice msc. orationum XVI. Gregorii Nazianzeni, et stricturis Jacobi Billii, ad Illustrissimum Dn. Dn. Christopherum Jost Zanthier, dynastam Sigelsdorfii & c. & c. serenissimi ac Potentissimi Poloniarum Regis et Electoris Saxoniae Consiliarium Intimum. Leipzig 1722 (online)
Succincta recensio eorum, quae Fathers Concilii Tridentini pro veritate Evangelii dixerunt, secundum historiam Sfortiae Cardinalis Pallauicini. Leipzig 1730
Opuscula juridico-philologica rariora. Utrecht, 1733, ( online )

literature

Friedrich Karl Gottlob Hirsching , Johann Heinrich Martin Ernesti : Historischliterarisches Handbuch of famous and memorable people who lived in the eighteenth century. Volume 15, 2nd abbot, Schwickert, Leipzig 1813, p. 182 ff. (Online)
Johann Friedrich Jugler : Contributions to the legal biography. Volume 5, Paul Gotthelf Kummer, Leipzig 1779, p. 153 (online)
Wächtler, Jacob. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 52, Leipzig 1747, columns 421-423.
Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : General scholarly lexicon . Volume 4, Leipzig 1751, Sp. 1764 (digitized version)
Ernst Landsberg: Wächtler, Christfried . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 442.

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Jacob Wächtler (* May 15, 1611 in Grimma; † June 17, 1675 ibid.) GVa. Va.s. Jacob Wächtler (Council Chamberlain Grimma), Va. Jacob Wächtler (Clothmaker and Council Chamberlain Grimma), GVa. Mu.s. Melchior Beyer (City Judge Grimma), Mu. Catharina Beyer, City School Grimma (Rect. M. Jeremias Schöne), Br. Paul Wächtler (City Clerk Jüterbog), 1627 kurf. Saxon. Ls. Grimma, 1630 Uni. Leipzig (short: Saxon scholarship), July 18, 1633 Rector Greifenberg / Pommern and Preacher ibid., July 22, 1636 Deacon Grimma, 1638 Archdeacon ibid., Mag.phil. University. Leipzig, m. August 18, 1637 with Elisabeth Margaretha Bakius (11th children, 9th son and 2nd daughter) Sun. Jacob Wächtler , To. Anna Margaretha Wächtler (was 4 years old), So. Reinhard Wächtler (citizen and bookseller in Strasbourg), So. David Wächtler (candidate jur., Town clerk Wurzen), So. Paulus Wächtler (candidate. Phil, * ± 1650 in Grimma; † September 12, 1672, greeted Grimma), To. Catharina Wächtler married with the pharmacist in Oschatz Wolf Abel Winckelmann, So. Samuel Wächtler (citizen and master cloth maker Grimma), So. Friedrich Wächtler (pharmacist Stettin), So. Bernhard Wächtler († young) and Ernst Wächtler († young) cf. Fritz Roth: Complete evaluations of funeral sermons and personal documents for genealogical purposes. Volume 3, Boppard / Rhein, p. 57, no.2078.
↑ cf. the doctoral program: Ad Ulpiani LV par. II. Commod. & L. XXIII. d. RI Sive De Gradibus Culpae In Contractibus Commentatio Inauguralis. Wittenberg 1680 (online)
↑ Gottfried Sternberger (born March 25, 1629 in Zittau; † March 29, 1683 in Meißen), father: Laurentius (Lorenz) Sternberger (January 19, 1600 organist Zittau; † April 25, 1634 Zittau), summer semester 1646/1652 Uni. Leipzig (with Erhard Weigel), Uni. Jena, April 15, 1654 Bacc. phil. University. Leipzig, January 25, 1655 Mag.phil. ibid., private tutor with Johann Benedict Carpzov, November 17, 1657 Uni. Strasbourg, 1661 Assessor phil. Fac. Uni. Leipzig, 1673 Vice Rector St. Afra Meißen
↑ Gottfried Fuhrmann (* 1626 in Klöden; † June 2, 1684 in Dresden) see: catalog of the princely Stolberg = Stolberg'schen funeral sermon = collections. Degener, Volume 1, Leipzig 1927, p. 631.
^ Romanus Teller (born March 22, 1641 in Leipzig, † November 2, 1691 ibid) lawyer, assessor of the Leipzig Schöppenstuhl
↑ Reinhardt Dietrich von Taube (* October 1, 1627; † January 6, 1681 in Bautzen, c. January 19, 1681 in Rödern), electoral privy councilor cf. Christian Heinker: Taube, Reinhard Dietrich von . In. Saxon biography.

personal data
SURNAME	Wächtler, Christfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and polyhistor
DATE OF BIRTH	November 18, 1652
PLACE OF BIRTH	Grimma
DATE OF DEATH	September 5, 1732
Place of death	Dresden

[1] Jacob Wächtler (* May 15, 1611 in Grimma; † June 17, 1675 ibid.) GVa. Va.s. Jacob Wächtler (Council Chamberlain Grimma), Va. Jacob Wächtler (Clothmaker and Council Chamberlain Grimma), GVa. Mu.s. Melchior Beyer (City Judge Grimma), Mu. Catharina Beyer, City School Grimma (Rect. M. Jeremias Schöne), Br. Paul Wächtler (City Clerk Jüterbog), 1627 kurf. Saxon. Ls. Grimma, 1630 Uni. Leipzig (short: Saxon scholarship), July 18, 1633 Rector Greifenberg / Pommern and Preacher ibid., July 22, 1636 Deacon Grimma, 1638 Archdeacon ibid., Mag.phil. University. Leipzig, m. August 18, 1637 with Elisabeth Margaretha Bakius (11th children, 9th son and 2nd daughter) Sun. Jacob Wächtler , To. Anna Margaretha Wächtler (was 4 years old), So. Reinhard Wächtler (citizen and bookseller in Strasbourg), So. David Wächtler (candidate jur., Town clerk Wurzen), So. Paulus Wächtler (candidate. Phil, * ± 1650 in Grimma; † September 12, 1672, greeted Grimma), To. Catharina Wächtler married with the pharmacist in Oschatz Wolf Abel Winckelmann, So. Samuel Wächtler (citizen and master cloth maker Grimma), So. Friedrich Wächtler (pharmacist Stettin), So. Bernhard Wächtler († young) and Ernst Wächtler († young) cf. Fritz Roth: Complete evaluations of funeral sermons and personal documents for genealogical purposes. Volume 3, Boppard / Rhein, p. 57, no.2078.

[2] . the doctoral program: Ad Ulpiani LV par. II. Commod. & L. XXIII. d. RI Sive De Gradibus Culpae In Contractibus Commentatio Inauguralis. Wittenberg 1680 (online)

[3] Gottfried Sternberger (born March 25, 1629 in Zittau; † March 29, 1683 in Meißen), father: Laurentius (Lorenz) Sternberger (January 19, 1600 organist Zittau; † April 25, 1634 Zittau), summer semester 1646/1652 Uni. Leipzig (with Erhard Weigel), Uni. Jena, April 15, 1654 Bacc. phil. University. Leipzig, January 25, 1655 Mag.phil. ibid., private tutor with Johann Benedict Carpzov, November 17, 1657 Uni. Strasbourg, 1661 Assessor phil. Fac. Uni. Leipzig, 1673 Vice Rector St. Afra Meißen

[4] Gottfried Fuhrmann (* 1626 in Klöden; † June 2, 1684 in Dresden) see: catalog of the princely Stolberg = Stolberg'schen funeral sermon = collections. Degener, Volume 1, Leipzig 1927, p. 631.

[5] Romanus Teller (born March 22, 1641 in Leipzig, † November 2, 1691 ibid) lawyer, assessor of the Leipzig Schöppenstuhl

[6] Reinhardt Dietrich von Taube (* October 1, 1627; † January 6, 1681 in Bautzen, c. January 19, 1681 in Rödern), electoral privy councilor cf. Christian Heinker: Taube, Reinhard Dietrich von . In. Saxon biography.