Christian Hartmann Samuel von Gatzert

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Christian Hartmann Samuel Gatzert , baron since July 17, 1790 Christian Hartmann Samuel von Gatzert (born June 4, 1739 , different date June 4, 1740 in Meiningen , † April 2, 1807 , different date April 3, 1807 in Giessen ) was a German Lawyer and politician .

Life

family

Christian Hartmann Samuel von Gatzert was the son of the teacher Johann Vitus Gatzert (* May 6, 1688 in Meiningen, † January 29, 1753 there) and his wife Johanna Catharina Charlotte (* January 12, 1703 in Leutersdorf , † April 2, 1787 in Meiningen), daughter of Johann Adam Hunneshagen (born September 26, 1663 in Jüchsen , † April 20, 1726 in Leutersdorf), pastor in Leutersdorf. His uncle was the Göttingen university professor Georg Heinrich Ayrer .

Since January 1, 1769 he was married to Catharina Ernestina Sophia (* July 6, 1739 in Schellnhausen , † May 11, 1812 in Gießen), daughter of the forest master Friedrich Wilhelm Haberkorn (September 13, 1701 in Windhausen , † April 7, 1778 in Giessen).

education

Until 1756 he attended the Lyceum (today: Henfling-Gymnasium ) in Meiningen, enrolled at the University of Göttingen in 1757 and began studying history , philology , natural sciences and medicine , but after a while decided to study law ; He has heard lectures from Johann Matthias Gesner on Roman and Greek antiquity , philosophy from Samuel Christian Hollmann , literary history from Georg Christoph Hamberger , diplomacy from Johann Christoph Gatterer , church history from Christian Wilhelm Franz Walch and mosaic law (epitome of the laws contained in the Bible are contained in the five books of Moses) with Johann David Michaelis , botany and anatomy with Johann Gottfried Zinn , law with Georg Christian Gebauer , Georg Heinrich Ayrer, Johann Stephan Pütter , Christian Friedrich Georg Meister (1718–1782), Gottfried Achenwall and Heinrich Christian von Selchow and French with Isaac von Colom du Clos (1708–1795); In 1760 he became a member of the philosophical seminary.

Career

After completing his studies, he took over the position of court master with Mr. von Uslar in 1761 , but gave it up again in 1763; During this time he made the acquaintance of Friedrich August Lichtenberg (1755-1819), the father of Ludwig von Lichtenberg , with whom he led negotiations in Vienna from May to October 1797 about compensation payments to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt and in November 1797 at the Congress participated in Rastatt .

After becoming a Dr. jur. doctorate , he was appointed associate professor of law at the University of Göttingen in October 1764.

He made several trips to Holland and England and was appointed to the Princely Hessian Government Councilor in Darmstadt at Easter 1767 and to the third full professor of law at the University of Giessen. In 1772 he was appointed as syndic of the university.

In 1773 he became a secret councilor .

In 1779 he was elected by the counts of the Upper Saxon district as assessor of the Reich Chamber Court until he was appointed by Landgrave Ludwig IX in 1783 . von Hessen-Darmstadt was appointed a member of the State Ministry and subsequently at the same time director of the government and the higher appeal court .

In 1787 he was appointed to the Privy Council, which consisted of two other members, Andreas Peter von Hesse (1728–1803) and Franz Ludwig Gottfried Lehmann (1738–1808), and in 1792, as Minister of Foreign Affairs, he was responsible for the landgrave's foreign policy.

In 1797 he was posted as an extraordinary envoy to the Viennese court and from there as a subdelegate to the Reichsfriedensdeputation in Rastatt. After the Rastatt Congress had ended, he asked Carl Ludwig von Barckhaus, called von Wiesenhütten , to be released in 1799 ; he received this with a retirement pension and with the retention of all awards and privileges associated with the ministerial post.

Christian Hartmann Samuel von Gatzert ordered in 1803 that a private scholarship of 70 guilders should be set up for two Meiningen students.

Legal work

He wrote various legal opinions, including on Friedrich Karl von Moser ; He probably owed his rise to the position of regional president from this report.

honors and awards

Fonts (selection)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Hessian biography: Johann Vitus Gatzert. Retrieved March 26, 2020 .
  2. ↑ List of descendants of Heinrich Linck (as of October 31, 2018). Retrieved March 27, 2020 .
  3. ^ Hessian biography: Johann Adam Hunneshagen. Retrieved March 26, 2020 .
  4. ^ Hessian biography: Friedrich Wilhelm Haberkorn. Retrieved March 26, 2020 .
  5. ^ Zeno: Addendum to the lexicon entry on "Mosaic Law". Brockhaus Conversations Lexicon. Retrieved March 27, 2020 .
  6. ^ German biography: Lichtenberg, Friedrich August Freiherr von - German biography. Retrieved March 27, 2020 .
  7. Ulrich Joost: More than an erratum in the errata. In: Lichtenberg-Jahrbuch 2007. Retrieved on March 27, 2020 .
  8. ^ Johann Stephan Pütter: Attempt of an academic scholarly history from the Georg Augustus University in Göttingen . 1765 ( google.de [accessed on March 26, 2020]).
  9. ^ Hessian biography: Andreas Peter von Hesse. Retrieved March 26, 2020 .
  10. Patricia Sensch: Sophie von La Roches letters to Johann Friedrich Christian Petersen (1788–1806): Critical Edition, Commentary, Analysis . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-040863-8 ( google.de [accessed on March 26, 2020]).
  11. Patricia Sensch: Sophie von La Roches letters to Johann Friedrich Christian Petersen (1788–1806): Critical Edition, Commentary, Analysis . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-040863-8 ( google.de [accessed on March 27, 2020]).
  12. ^ Gatzert, Christian Hartmann Samuel Freiherr von. Retrieved March 26, 2020 .
  13. Saxony-Meiningen: Ducal Saxony-Meiningisches Hof- und Staats-Handbuch: 1853 . Hartmann, 1853 ( google.de [accessed on March 27, 2020]).
  14. ^ Johann Heinrich Merck: Correspondence . Wallstein Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8353-0105-4 ( google.de [accessed on March 27, 2020]).
  15. ^ Friedrich Saalfeld: History of the University of Göttingen in the period from 1788 to 1820 . published by the Helwingschen Hofbuchhandlung publishing house, 1820 ( google.de [accessed on March 26, 2020]).