Christian Callisen

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Christian Callisen (born April 5, 1742 in Preetz , † February 20, 1836 in Glückstadt ) was a German lawyer.

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Christian Callisen was a son of Johann Leonhard Callisen (born February 26, 1695 in Tondern ) and the pastor's daughter Christiana, née Westhoff (born August 16, 1714 in Bosau ; † July 22, 1788 in Preetz). In 1721 his father applied for the diaconate of the Preetz Fleckenskirche and was given preference over the later famous theologian Johann Lorenz von Mosheim . In 1755 he moved to Preetz as a monastery preacher. He had three brothers: Johann Leonhard Callisen , Heinrich Callisen and the Zarpen pastors Hans Carl Callisen (* June 15, 1752, † February 22, 1802).

At the age of eleven, Callisen moved to live with relatives in Lübeck and attended the Katharineum . At the age of 13 he returned to Preetz. Here his father and the pastor Wolf Christian Matthiae gave him lessons. After his father died, Christian Emil von Rantzau-Rastorf financed his studies. In 1759 he went to the University of Kiel to study law. Together with Philipp Gabriel Hensler , he moved to Göttingen in 1760, where he experienced the Seven Years' War.

On November 10, 1773 Callisen married the Hamburg lawyer daughter Gertrud Sophie Henriette Winckler (born October 10, 1749 in Hamburg ; † December 17, 1826 in Glückstadt). The couple had three children: in addition to the court attorney Wilhelm Leonhard Emil (* September 5, 1780, † April 25, 1842) these were Christian Friedrich Callisen and Adolf Callisen .

In 1763 Callisen passed the exam in Schleswig. He then lived for four years in Neuhaus with the astronomer Friedrich von Hahn and worked as his secretary. Here he suffered greatly from loneliness and occasionally visited his brother Johann Leonhard in Schönberg. During his stay in Neuhaus he wrote a diary in which he mostly dealt with religious topics.

Count Rantzau advised Callisen to apply for a law firm in Glückstadt. Callisen followed the advice in 1767 and received the support of Oberachwalters Wiebel, so that after a short time he became an advocate for the upper and lower courts. In the context of processes for Holstein communities he achieved a high reputation early on. In 1816 he was appointed to the Royal Danish Council of Justice.

Callisen wrote alongside his legal work. In 1769 he published the "Promtuarium juridicum on the ... ordinances contained in the Schleswig-Holstein advertisements from 1750 to ... 1768 ...", which he financed himself. In 1789 and 1798 he wrote continuations of this.

Since 1817 Callisen could see increasingly poorly. Treatment by his son Adolf failed. It was also his son who recommended that he dictate an autobiography that was written in 1827/28.

At the end of life Callisen, who generously supported charitable causes, was very wealthy. In 1819 he set up a foundation for the Glückstadt “learned school” where his sons had studied. The facility offered scholarships to poor gifted children.

literature

  • Hans-Albrecht Koch: Callisen, Christian . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 3. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1974, pp. 57-58