Christian Ludwig Kotzebue

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Gravestone and today's epitaph of Kotzebue and his wife Maria Eleonore Bünting with Latin inscription on the northern outer wall of the church tower of the Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis in Hanover , district of Calenberger Neustadt

Christian Ludwig Kotzebue (* March 8, 1661 in Celle ; † September 12, 1706 in Hanover ) was a German doctor , personal physician , historian and genealogist .

Life

Christian Ludwig Kotzebue was a descendant of the later nobility gender of Kotzebue few years after the Thirty Years' War , the son of the former royal residence born physician Jacob Franz Kotzebue make Celle (1621-1685) and his wife Margarethe Barbara Lüdecke was born. At the age of 15 he was sent to Lüneburg in 1676 to visit the local Johanneum . From 1678 he then studied medicine at the Academia Julia Carolina in Helmstedt .

In 1681 Kotzebue went to Leyden , in 1684 to Hanover, from where he followed his sovereign Duke Ernst August to Venice .

After Kotzebue received his doctorate in Padua in 1685 - also in Italy - as Dr. med. received, he was appointed court physician and personal physician to the future Elector of Hanover, Ernst August.

Kotzebue was married to Maria Eleonore Büntig (* May 25, 1666, † November 2, 1704). His great-grandson was the writer August von Kotzebue .

A letter from Kotzebue around 1701 to Johann Georg Eckhart , the secretary of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , who also worked in Hanover , can be found today as part of Leibniz's world heritage .

Like his wife, who had recently died, and like other court officials of his time, Kotzebue was buried in the Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis . His tombstone can now be found as an epitaph on the northern outer wall of the church tower.

Around 30 years after Christian Ludwig's death in 1736, parts of his library came into the possession of the predecessor institution of today's Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library .

The Chronica Hannovera, published in 1740 by an anonymous author, was initially attributed to Kotzebue for a long time before recent research at the turn of the millennium allowed the historian and Hanoverian pastor Georg Hilmar Ising to be identified as the author.

Also posthumously , Kotzebue's writing Hanoverian Description of History was first printed in 1759 or 1760, which is an important source for historians to understand the history of the city of Hanover .

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Further archival material

An archive can be found for example,

  • in the city ​​archive of Hanover , register number B 8276, a description of the school rector and superintendent Wichmann Schulrabe in Kotzebue, anthology 1: Truthful report and thorough record of what happened between the preachers tzu Hanover and M. Wichmanne Schulravenn, schoolmaster there, of the 15th Decemb (ris) of the 1575th jhars up to the 18th day of Martii of the following 1576th jars was carried out and issued. Subtitle or motto: Stabit in aeternum invicta veritas. Scripture around 1600, pag. 1–259 (contemporary), fol. 169-299.

Fonts (selection)

  • Attributed to Kotzebue:
    • The fourth book of the Hanoverian historical description. In: Patriotic archive for Hanoverian-Braunschweig history. As a continuation of the Spiel- und Spangenbergschen magazine published by an association of patriotic history friends by Burchard Christian von Spilker and Adolph Karl Brönnenberg . Herold and Wahlstab, Lüneburg 1834 (printed as a volume in 1835), pp. 171–273; Digitization of the Munich digitization center
    • Chronicon Coenobii Montis-Francorum Goslariae. [Electronic resource]: Eiusdem Origines, progressum, fata, incrementa & decrementa, nec non seriem Praepositorum enumerans, Pontificum insuper Maximorum, Praesulum, Ducum, Comitum, Dynastarum, & Nobilium vicinorum Privilegia, Diplomata, Tabulas, & literas recensens, quibusas recensens, quae tum temporis in adsitis terris memoratu digna contigere, praeprimis vero vitae Praesulum Hildesiensium, secundum seriem brevibus verbis explicatae, iunguntur. Ex optimae notae autoribus & documentis authenticis congestum. Ed .: Christian Franz Paullini , Coenobium Montis-Francorum, Goslar, 1698; [Colorcheck / mode / 2up digitalisat] of the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt

literature

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Kotzebue, Christian Ludwig in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of July 6, 2005, last accessed on April 2, 2016
  2. ↑ a b Editor: Kotzebue, von. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie , Vol. 12 (1979), pp. 623-624 online version .
  3. ↑ a b c d e Klaus Mlynek : Kotzebue, Christian Ludwig. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 209; online through google books
  4. ↑ Compare the Latin inscription on the tombstone of the electoral Hanoverian personal physician
  5. ^ Herbert Breger (ed.), Malte-Ludolf Babin, Gerd van den Heuvel , Rita Widmaier (arrangement): Christian Ludwig Kotzebue for Johann Georg Eckhart. In: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Complete writings and letters , first row: General political and historical correspondence. Published by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Volume 20. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-05-004200-1 and ISBN 978-3-05-004200-8 , pp. 139ff .; online through google books
  6. ↑ Annette v. Boetticher : Gravestones, epithaphs and memorial plaques of the Evangelical Lutheran. Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis in Hanover , brochure DIN A5 (20 pages, some with illustrations), publisher. from the church council of the ev.-luth. Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis, Hanover: 2002, p. 6, especially p. 14
  7. ↑ Klaus Mlynek: ISING, Georg Hilmar. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 183; online through google books.
  8. ^ Online view of the Christian Ludwig Kotzebue estate finding aid (title) about the Kalliope network
  9. ↑ Compare the information from the German National Library
personal data
SURNAME Kotzebue, Christian Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Electoral Hanoverian court and body medic, historian and genealogist
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1661
PLACE OF BIRTH Celle
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1706
Place of death Hanover