Christian Gottlob von Voigt

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Christian Gottlob Voigt

Christian Gottlob von Voigt (born December 23, 1743 in Allstedt ; † March 22, 1819 in Weimar ) was a German poet, Grand Ducal Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach Real Privy Councilor and President of the State Ministry and a colleague of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Weimar.

family

Christian Gottlob Voigt came from the Ernestine office of Allstedt . His first marriage was to Johanna Viktoria Hufeland, rel. Michaelis (1741–1815), the daughter of Johann Christoph Hufeland and Viktoria Hufeland, b. Müller. He was the brother of the geologist Johann Karl Wilhelm Voigt .

Their son with Johanna Viktoria Hufeland, the lawyer Christian Gottlob von Voigt d. J. (* 1774) married Maria Henrietta Carolina (née Schmidt) in 1811 after his first marriage had been divorced; she was the widow of his friend, Hofmedicus Wilhelm Christian Gottfried Herder (1774-1806), the eldest son of Johann Gottfried Herder . In the spring of 1813, the young Voigt was taken prisoner by the French, from which he could be freed, but the deprivation of the consequences brought him a febrile illness shortly afterwards, from which he died.

After Johanna Viktoria died in 1815, he married Amalie Caroline Friederika (1766–1843), the widow of Weimaran government councilor Friedrich Heinrich Gotthelf Osann (* 1753; † March 29, 1803 in Weimar) on October 31, 1815. She brought four sons into the marriage, including Emil Osann (1787–1842), later professor of medicine in Berlin, Friedrich Gotthilf Osann (1794–1858), later professor of philology in Jena and Gießen, and Gottfried Wilhelm Osann (1796–1858) 1866), later professor of chemistry and physics in Tartu and Würzburg.

Life

Voigt studied law in Jena . From 1766 to 1770 he was an assistant in the library in Weimar. In 1770 he joined the civil service of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach in Weimar as a councilor. At the same time he was raised to the nobility.

In 1783, Goethe proposed him as a second member of the miners' commission. In 1794 he became Privy Councilor , Minister of State in 1809 and President of the Ministry of State in Weimar in 1815. In recognition of his services, he was awarded the Grand Cross House Order of the White Falcon of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach on December 23, 1815 .

Voigt is buried in the Jacobsfriedhof in Weimar.

Act

Christian Gottlob von Voigt was closely connected with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe for almost forty years in official business and privately, as well as with Johann Karl August Musäus , Christoph Martin Wieland , Johann Gottfried Herder and Friedrich Schiller . He was also mentioned several times in Goethe's correspondence with Christiane Vulpius .

He was considered a capable and conscientious civil servant who had a broad horizon and who also wrote poetry and pursued the natural sciences, provided that the official business permitted. In addition to Goethe, he oversaw the ducal library (today the Duchess Anna Amalia library ). There is a plaster bust of him in the Rococo hall. Further busts and a painting are in the Goethe National Museum .

literature

  • Gustav Lämmerhirt:  Voigt, Christian Gottlob von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 54, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1908, pp. 752-755.
  • Hans Wahl , Anton Kippenberg : Goethe and his world . Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1932, p. 155.
  • Hans Tümmler (Editing / Editing): Correspondence between Goethe and Voigt, IV volumes with explanations, Böhlau, Weimar 1949–1962.
  • Hans Tümmler: Goethe the colleague. His life and work with Christian Gottlob von Voigt . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne Vienna 1970.
  • Jochen Klauß: The "Minister of Classical Weimar" as a knowledgeable numismatist. Christian Gottlob von Voigt on his 250th birthday . In: On the cultural and charitable activities of the Freundeskreis Goethe-Nationalmuseum e. V. 1991-1993 , Weimar 1994, pp. 25-44.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. http://ora-web.swkk.de/goe_reg_online/regest.voll Anzeige_bio ? id= 38282
  2. http://ora-web.swkk.de/goe_reg_online/regest.voll Anzeige_bio ? id= 38286
  3. ^ Letter texts , register p. 691
  4. on the son in the father's biography, p. 648
  5. on the son in Goethe's letters to Christian Gottlob von Voigt , 1868, pp. 99-103 at Google Books
  6. ^ Sister of Heinrich Schmidt (actor, 1779)
  7. "Conversations with Johann Wolfgang Goethe" , zeno.org
  8. ^ Weimarisches Wochenblatt of January 4, 1816 (accessed April 1, 2016)