Christian Kosegarten

Christian Kosegarten (born May 7, 1770 in Grevesmühlen , † April 21, 1821 in Hamburg ) was a German lawyer , lawyer , philosopher , poet and writer .

Life

Friedrich Franz Kosegarten was the youngest son of pastor Bernhard Christian Kosegarten (1722–1803). His mother Anna Christiane, b. Stiegenhaus, († 1979) was the second wife of the father. The theologian, educator and writer Friedrich Franz Kosegarten (1772–1849) was his brother, the pastors Johann Joachim Kosegarten (1751–1823) and Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten (1758–1818) were his half-brothers.

Christian Kosegarten first studied theology and then worked as a private tutor in Neustrelitz , Waren (Müritz) and Hamburg. From Easter he studied law in Leipzig and received his doctorate in 1801. In 1802 he married the daughter of Friederike the Lübeck surgeon. He returned to Hamburg, received citizenship there in 1803 and became a lawyer . He is said to have participated in the campaign of 1813 and later died of emaciation .

Fonts

• Poems . Rostock 1794 with Johann Dietrich Hartmann (1762–1840)
• Critique of Humanity . Leipzig 1796
• What should the prince be? What can the prince be? . Hamburg 1797
• Memnon's statue in letters to Ida von Kosegarten . Berlin 1799 ( digitized version )
• The free state . Hamburg 1809
• Proposals for the administration of justice in Hamburg . Hamburg 1813
• Views on the German State Burnd . Hamburg 1816
• Basic features for an appeal court of the four free cities in Germany . Hamburg 1817
• Basics of our age in Germany . Leipzig 1819 ( digitized )

literature

• Hans Schröder : Lexicon of the Hamburg writers up to the present . Fourth volume, Hamburg 1866, p. 151 f. ( Digitized version )