Christian August Scheller

Christian August Scheller (born March 24, 1769 in Lübben , Niederlausitz , † October 4, 1848 in Ratibor ) was a royal Prussian Privy Councilor .

Life

Christian August Scheller was born as one of five children of the classical philologist and lexicographer Immanuel Johann Gerhard Scheller and his wife Johanna Eleonora born. Schliebner was born. The family moved to Brzeg in 1772 .

He attended grammar school in Brieg and began studying law and camera law in Halle at Easter 1786 . He attended the lectures of the legal scholars Daniel Nettelbladt , Johann Christian Woltaer , Johann Caspar Ludwig Mencke and Johann Christoph Bathe as well as the natural scientist Johann Reinhold Forster and the free thinker Karl Friedrich Bahrdt (* August 25, 1741; † April 23, 1792), the lectures on the morale held up. Due to the early death of his four siblings, he did not continue his academic career, but instead finished his studies at Easter 1789 and returned to his parents' house in Brieg to do some practical work.

After an examination at the Royal Prussian government in Brieg, he was sworn in as an auscultator at the local court on September 18, 1789 . On July 23, 1792 he was appointed trainee lawyer and after taking an exam in Berlin he became assessor in Brieg on December 19, 1795 . On April 16, 1796, Friedrich Wilhelm II appointed him a councilor to the South Prussian government in Petrikau . In 1798 the authority moved to Kalisch . There he was subsequently promoted to the pupil and consistorial council.

In 1806 Christian August Scheller lost his offices as a result of the Polish insurrection because he did not want to break the oath of allegiance to the king, although the Polish government offered him a transfer to the Polish judicial service. This put him in an economically difficult position because at that time he not only had to feed his wife and children, but also had to look after his mother and the service staff. The father's fortune, which was built up through the publication of philological works, had meanwhile been almost completely consumed, especially since his father did not have the publishing rights of his works guaranteed.

In 1808 he returned with his family to Brieg, where he carried out minor judicial assignments until he was hired on May 31, 1810 as a higher regional judge and member of the criminal senate.

In 1813, when the French army invaded Brzeg, Christian August Scheller stayed as commissioner of the higher regional court in Brzeg; the rest of the college moved to Racibórz so as not to be separated from its jurisdiction in Upper Silesia and carried out official business from there. In 1817 Christian August Scheller moved to the new office. In Racibórz there was no higher educational institution at which the officials could have their children trained. Because Christian August Scheller also had three school-age sons, he tried to set up such an educational institution. Many officials had to have their children educated in distant high schools, which was associated with additional costs, and so a high school was inaugurated on June 2, 1819 due to Christian August Scheller's efforts and suggestions. As president of the high school school commission, he administered the educational institution free of charge and after its dissolution in 1819 became commissioner perpetuus of the royal provincial school council in Breslau , which he held until 1846.

In his work as a pupil counselor , he was also the curator of the Judicial Depositorium in Ratibor.

On March 14, 1830 he was by Friederich Wilhelm III. promoted to the secret council of justice.

At his own request, after more than 52 years of service, he was retired on January 1, 1842 and stayed in Ratibor until his death. When he died, he left a daughter and two sons.

On February 10, 1796, Christian August Scheller married the second daughter of the late excise and tax collector Jeannette Henriette Juliane Erler (* unknown; † December 25, 1812) in Brieg. The couple had seven children together, three of whom died early.

Awards

Bearer of the Red Eagle Order IV class

Works

• Christian August Scheller: Tractatvs Ivridicvs De Legato Rei Alienae Qvae Non Est Res Tertii Avctore Christiano Avgvsto Scheller Silesio AD XXII. Mart. MDCCLXXXIX. Hundt, Halle 1789, digitized

Individual evidence

1. ^ New necrology of the Germans . tape 26 , part 2. Voigt, 1848, p. 642–645 ( google.de [accessed September 8, 2017]).