Christian Conrad Nopitsch

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Christian Conrad Nopitsch (born May 28, 1759 in Kirchensittenbach , † August 4, 1838 in Schönberg (Lauf an der Pegnitz) ) was a German Protestant pastor , Nuremberg local historian and lexicographer .

Origin and family

Family coat of arms of the Nopitsch

Christian Conrad Nopitsch came from the Nopitsch family, who had to flee the market town of Gresten in Lower Austria in the middle of the 17th century due to their Protestant beliefs and settled in the area of ​​the imperial city of Nuremberg (in "Petzensteinerhüll", today Hüll (Betzenstein) ). He was next to the future music director in Nördlingen, Christoph Friedrich Wilhelm Nopitsch (1758-1824), one of four sons of the pastor Conrad Nopitsch (1722-1790).

Life

Christian Conrad Nopitsch received lessons from his father in Latin , Greek , Hebrew and French . From 1777 he studied at the University of Altdorf theology . He then worked as a tutor in Nuremberg, but he had to leave this position after a year because he had to help out his father in his pastor in Pommelsbrunn . In 1792 Christian Conrad Nopitsch was finally appointed pastor in Altenthann (Schwarzenbruck) . For the historian and professor Georg Andreas Will , whom he knew from his studies in Altdorf, Nopitsch was house librarian until his death in 1798 . After Georg Andreas Will's death in 1801, Nopitsch published a second edition of Will's "History of the Nuremberg University of Altdorf" with supplements and, from 1802 to 1808, in a new form, the independent supplement to the Nuremberg Scholars' Lexicon, also in four volumes.

Nopitsch was married to Felicitas Christiana Guettlers, the daughter of a Nördlingen businessman. The marriage resulted in four sons and three daughters, of whom only one daughter survived:

· Johann Wilhelm Nopitsch * April 15th July 1793 Altdorf, buried on July 13, 1808 in Altdorf (drowned in the Schwarzach not far from the Prethalmühle)

Barbara Eleonora Nopitsch * 18. November 1794 Altdorf, ⚭ October 17, 1820 Schönberg with Georg Christoph Lippert

· Sophia Catharina Nopitsch * 30. April 1796 Altdorf, ⚭ December 7, 1819 Schönberg with Ernst Julius Dasch, † December 13, 1820 Lauf

· Sophia Catharina Christiana Nopitsch * 1. September 1798 Altdorf, buried on April 9, 1799 in Altdorf

· Walfried Christian Friedrich Nopitsch * 23. February 1800 Altdorf, buried on December 18, 1801 in Altdorf

· Johann Albrecht Nopitsch * 21. November 1802 Altdorf, buried on July 14, 1806 in Altdorf

· Ehrenfried David Nopitsch * 2. May 1806 Altdorf, † February 3, 1824 Schönberg

coat of arms

Blazon : In a blue shield a golden crane, in the right claw holding a golden stone. On the helmet a golden sheaf between two blue and golden buffalo horns. Blue and gold helmet covers.

Others

  • Christian Conrad Nopitsch had been a member of the Pegnesian Flower Order since 1809.
  • The Nopitschstrasse, which runs through the Nuremberg districts Gibitzenhof and Schweinau, is named in his honor.

Fonts (selection)

  • Guide for strangers in Nuremberg, or topographical description of the imperial city of Nuremberg according to its squares, markets, alleys, alleyways, courtyards, spiritual and secular public buildings, in alphabetical order . Edited by Christian Conrad Nopitsch; Nuremberg, Raspe, 1801.
  • Georg Andreas Will's Nürnbergisches Schehrten-Lexicon or description of all Nuremberg scholars beyderley ancestry according to their life, merit and writings, to expand the learned history and improve many errors that occurred therein from the best sources in alphabetical order (supplemented and continued by Christian Conrad Nopitsch; published 1802-1808).
  • Literature of Proverbs. A handbook for literary historians, bibliographers and librarians . Written by Christian Conrad Nopitsch, Royal Bavarian Pastor and Local School Inspector zu Schönberg, Camerar of the Deanery of Lauf and member of the Pegnese Order of Flowers. Nuremberg, in the JLLechner'schen Buchhandlung, 1822.

literature

  • Norbert Weber / Parish Schönberg (ed.): Christian Conrad Nopitsch - Parish Book Schönberg 1833/34 . Annotated new edition of the parish description by Christian Conrad Nopitsch, self-published, Lauf an der Pegnitz, 2019.
  • Ernst Mummenhoff:  Nopitsch, Christian Konrad . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, p. 3.    

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Norbert Weber: Christian Conrad Nopitsch - Pfarr-Buch Schönberg 1833/34. Annotated new edition of the parish description by Christian Conrad Nopitsch . Ed .: Parish of Schönberg. Self-published, Lauf an der Pegnitz 2019.
  2. ^ Johann Siebmacher (ed.): Siebmacher civil coats of arms . tape 9 . by Bauer & Raspe, Nuremberg 1912.
personal data
SURNAME Nopitsch, Christian Conrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant pastor, Nuremberg local historian and lexicographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1759
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchensittenbach
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 1838
Place of death Schönberg (Lauf an der Pegnitz)