Christian Friedrich Schlosser

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Christian Friedrich Schlosser (born September 15, 1782 in Frankfurt am Main , † February 14, 1829 in Rome ) was a German educator and journalist.

Christian Friedrich Schlosser came from a respected Frankfurt Protestant pastor and lawyer family. While his great-grandfather Heinrich Ludwig Schlosser was still a Protestant pastor at the St. Katharinenkirche in the free imperial city of Frankfurt am Main, his grandfather Erasmus Carl Schlosser (1696–1773) - married to Susanne Maria Orth - was already a lawyer, lay judge and from 1757 to 1764 a so-called senior mayor in Frankfurt am Main. His offices were taken over by his father Hieronymus Peter Schlosser (1735–1797), also a lawyer, or one year after the death of Hieronymus Peter his younger brother Johann Georg Schlosser (1739–1799), also a lawyer with extensive professional experience, among others as Secretary of Prince Eugene of Württemberg , Margrave Karl Friedrich von Baden , as well as appointed "Common Council" and court director in Karlsruhe . This uncle Johann Georg was first married to Cornelia Goethe (1750–1777), Johann Wolfgang Goethe's sister . His brother Johann Friedrich Heinrich Schlosser , also called Fritz, was a lawyer, imperial councilor, writer, private scholar and owner of the Neuburg monastery .

Christian Friedrich Schlosser began a multifaceted course of study, which he began as a doctor in Jena and Göttingen , where he also made Goethe's acquaintance. In 1808 he went to Rome, gripped by romanticism . There he lived with artists such as Bertel Thorvaldsen , Friedrich Overbeck and Cornelius. In 1812, like his friend Zacharias Werner and his brother Johann Friedrich Heinrich Schlosser, he converted to Catholicism . Since the beginning of 1814 he worked together with his brother Johann Friedrich Heinrich Schlosser in the central administration of Frankfurt. From the summer of 1816, Christian, together with his brother and Friedrich Schlegel, emerged as the spokesman for the Catholic party in the dispute over the constitution of the free city of Frankfurt. In addition to his teaching post at a Frankfurt grammar school, he worked as a political writer. In 1818/19 he was a grammar school director in Koblenz and was in close contact with Joseph Görres , but then resigned from this office. A plan by Freiherr vom Stein and Wilhelm von Humboldt to get him a professorship in Bonn failed because of the political concerns of the Prussian government. After the death of his wife Johanna Helene from the wealthy Frankfurt Gontard family (daughter of Susette Gontard ), he stayed in France from 1820 to 1824 . In 1826, seriously ill, he moved back to Rome, where he died on February 14, 1829.

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SURNAME Schlosser, Christian Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1782
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1829
Place of death Rome