Christian Gilbert de Spaignart

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Christian Gilbert de Spaignart (* unknown; † 1632 in Magdeburg ) was a Lutheran theologian and is considered an early German economist .

Life

Spaignart came from a family of theologians from Electoral Saxony . At the beginning of the 17th century he was a Lutheran clergyman in Upper Austria and served as court preacher in Hagenberg and as pastor in Enns . In his writings from 1617 he calls himself ecclesiae Anasinae in Austria superiore pastor . The re-Catholicization of Upper Austria, which was carried out with all his might during this period, forced him to emigrate in 1619. The following year he was pastor at the St. Ulrich's Church in Magdeburg. There he became a public figure early on, who achieved significance in the history of the city through the writing of a large number of pamphlets. In the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War he was abducted in the course of the conquest of Magdeburg in 1631. A year later he managed to return to Magdeburg, where he died shortly afterwards.

Economics

The main work of Spaigart was the theological question of Müntz, whether Christian-Evangelical authorities for their own benefit let the Müntz be made worse and worse from time to time with a clear conscience? (1621). The work is aimed primarily at the city authorities on the question of the tipper and luffing system , the great deterioration in coins in the 17th century.

literature

  • Wilhelm Roscher: History of the national economy in Germany. R. Oldenbourg, 1874, p. 178 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Spaignart, Christian Gilbert de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lutheran theologian and German economist
DATE OF BIRTH 16th century or 17th century
DATE OF DEATH 1632
Place of death Magdeburg