Christian Ludwig Stieglitz (lawyer, 1756)

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Christian Ludwig Stieglitz, portrait of Johann Friedrich August Tischbein (1804), Leipzig City History Museum

Christian Ludwig Stieglitz (* December 12, 1756 in Leipzig ; † July 17, 1836 there ) was a German lawyer , building researcher, councilor in Leipzig and provost in Wurzen .

Live and act

Stieglitzens Hof (before 1891)

Stieglitz came from a respected Leipzig family who owned a large house ( Stieglitzens Hof ) on Leipziger Markt , and was the grandson and son of two legal scholars of the same name: Christian Ludwig Stieglitz (1677–1758) was his grandfather, Christian Ludwig Stieglitz (1724–1772) his father. He attended the Thomas School under Johann August Ernesti , who also became his guardian after the death of his father , and studied law at the University of Leipzig ; here he was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD. In 1792 he was accepted into the magistrate . He became city judge in 1801 and proconsul (deputy mayor) in 1823 . As the councilor's builder , he was responsible for municipal building supervision from 1804. In this capacity, he made a contribution to the reworking of the Leipzig Fire Regulations of 1810, which were regarded as exemplary at the time. In 1808 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

The job as a master builder suited his strong interest in architecture and building history. He developed into one of the most thorough and tasteful connoisseurs of bourgeois and aesthetic, old and new, architecture, but also especially an astute researcher in this area of ​​art history . With his table work Von Altdeutscher Baukunst from 1820, he provided the first overview of medieval architecture in Germany and made a significant contribution to the rediscovery of the Gothic and the early Gothic Revival . Today, however, it is almost forgotten in architectural history or at least not present in accordance with its importance.

The Gothic gate around 1820

In his hometown of Leipzig, he contributed his theoretical considerations to the well-known building projects of the time: For example, in 1815 he submitted a draft for a memorial for the Battle of Nations in the form of a Gothic cathedral with the theologian Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette , which was rejected. A Gothic gate (1793/94) was erected as an architectural decoration at his suggestion in the English layout on the Promenadenring in Leipzig, but was demolished again in 1840.

Neo-Gothic furnishings, St. Marien Cathedral in Wurzen (photo taken around 1900)

As provost of the Kollegiatstift zu Wurzen , together with the dean Immanuel Christian Leberecht von Ampach and the Kapitel, from 1817 he was responsible for an early neo-Gothic renovation of St. Mary's Cathedral , which, however, has not survived after another renovation in 1931.

Under his leadership, the venerable German Society for the Study of Patriotic Language and Antiquities , which was founded as a language society, was renewed in 1697 as the “Poetisches Collegium” and in 1727 by Johann Christoph Gottsched as the “ German Society for the Advancement of the German Language” and in April 1827 united with the "Saxon Association for Research and Preservation of Patriotic Antiquities" founded in 1824. Stieglitz was the editor of their annual reports until 1832 .

Stieglitz also tried his hand at poetry and wrote the anonymously published stories from the age of knights (1787) and the poem Wartburg (1801).

His abandoned library was auctioned in Halle an der Saale in 1837 ; the auction catalog comprises 499 pages. A collection of ancient Greek coins compiled by him can also be found in a printed Catalogus numorum veterum Graecorum quos ad artis historiam illustrandam colligebat olim et notis suis illustrabat Christ. Ludov. Stieglitz (1837) and should also be sold after his death. His son of the same name, Christian Ludwig Stieglitz (lawyer, 1803) , became a judge in Dresden.

In 1898 Stieglitzstrasse in the Leipzig district of Schleußig was named after him.

Fonts

  • De causis cur in Germania jus feudale Germanicum neglectum et jus feudale Longobardicum receptum sit. Dissertation 1784
    Reissued by his son of the same name in Leipzig 1834 to celebrate his fiftieth doctoral jubilee
  • Tales from the times of knights. Weißenfels; Leipzig 1787
  • Experiment on taste in architecture. Leipzig 1788
  • History of the architecture of the ancients. Leipzig 1792
  • The architecture of the elderly - a manual for friends of art; along with an architectural dictionary. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel 1796
    Digitized copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library
  • Encyclopedia of bourgeois architecture, in which all subjects of this art are dealt with in alphabetical order: a manual for state economists, builders and farmers . - Leipzig: Fritsch / digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
  • Painting of gardens in a new taste. With copper. Leipzig 1798, 2nd edition 1804
  • Archeology of the architecture of the Greeks and Romans. 2 parts, with coppers, Weimar 1801
    Digitized copy of the copy from Heidelberg University Library
  • Drawings from the beautiful architecture or representation of ideal and executed buildings Author's statement with necessary explanations and a treatise on the beauty in the architecture accompanied by CL Stieglitz. 2., verb. Edition Leipzig: Voss 1805
  • Attempt to set up antique coin collections. Leipzig 1809
  • About the painters' colors of the Greeks and Romans. Leipzig 1817
  • Archaeological treatises. With coppers, Leipzig 1820
  • From old German architecture. With 34 copper plates in folio 2 volumes (text and plate volume) Leipzig: G. Fleischer 1820
    Digitized version of the text volume , copy from the Bavarian State Library
  • About the church of St. Kunigunde in Rochlitz and the stonemason's hut there. Leipzig 1829
    Digitized copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library
  • Distributio numorum familiarum Romanarum ad typos accomodata. Lipsiae: Vogel 1830
  • History of architecture, from the earliest general to modern times. 3 departments, 2nd edition, Nuremberg 1836
  • Contributions to the history of the training of architecture. 2 volumes, Leipzig 1834
  • Text on Pultrich: Monuments of the architecture of the Middle Ages in Saxony. Leipzig 1836

literature

  • Christian Ludwig Stieglitz , in: Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff: Encyclopedia of German National Literature: or, Biographical-Critical Lexicon of German poets and prose writers since the earliest times, together with samples from their works. Volume 7, Leipzig: Wigand 1842, p. 221
  • Franz Schnorr von Carolsfeld :  Stieglitz, Christian Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, p. 176 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Allgemeine Realencyclopädie or Conversationslexicon for Catholic Germany. Volume 9, Regensburg: Manz 1848, p. 892
  2. ↑ Klaus Jan Philipp: Around 1800: Theory of architecture and architecture criticism in Germany between 1790 and 1810. Stuttgart / London: Edition Axel Menges 1997 ISBN 9783930698769 , p. 79
  3. ^ Dieter Dolgner: Historicism. German architecture 1815–1900 . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1993, ISBN 978-3-363-00583-7 , pp. 19 .
  4. ↑ Martin Moresco / Isabelle Schön: The landscape of the public green in Leipzig. From the regular avenue to the English layout . In: Nadja Horsch, Simone Tübbecke (ed.): Citizens' gardens promenades. Leipzig garden culture in the 18th and 19th centuries . Passage Verlag, Leipzig 2018, ISBN 978-3-95415-072-4 , pp. 160 ff .
personal data
SURNAME Goldfinch, Christian Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, councilor, building researcher and provost in Wurzen
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1756
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 1836
Place of death Leipzig