Christian Wilhelm Friedrich Schmid

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Christian Wilhelm Friedrich Schmid (born December 24, 1739 in Marienberg ; † August 30, 1806 in Freiberg ) was a senior miner and senior miner from Saxony who was also known as a chronicler.

Life

His uncle was the Electorate of Saxony Mountain Commissionsrath and mountain Vogt Johann Christian Schmid in Eisleben . Professor Christian Heinrich Schmid in Giessen and the legal scholar Carl Ferdinand Schmid in Wittenberg were his cousins. His brother Karl Christian Conrad Schmid was tithe and counter-writer in Johanngeorgenstadt .

Christian Wilhelm Friedrich Schmid was born on Christmas Eve 1739 in the Erzgebirge mountain town of Marienberg as the son of the local miner Carl Ernst Schmid, whose ancestors came from the town of Elterlein . He went to school at the Lyceum in Marienberg, which was one of the most important Latin schools in the Ore Mountains.

From 1761 Christian Wilhelm Friedrich Schmid studied law at the University of Leipzig . From 1765 to 1768 he then worked as a lawyer and notary in Eisleben in the county of Mansfeld . He had received this position through the mediation of his uncle, who was active as a mountain commissioner in Eisleben. He then returned to his home in the Ore Mountains, where he was promoted to chief miner and from 1785 headed the Freiberg Mining Office.

Schmid was born with Christiane Friedericke. Simon married, the marriage remained childless. He died at the end of August 1806. In his will, he had established the Latin school in Marienberg and the miner's widow's fund in Freiberg as heirs. His extensive library was auctioned off at a profit by the estate administrator the following year.

Fonts (selection)

  • Essay on the right of mountain leather , Freiberg, 1774.
  • Essay from the end of the round tree , 1782.
  • Family tables of the Schmid family from the mountain town of Elterlein in the Saxon Ore Mountains: according to the main lines in Elterlein, in Marienberg, in and near Eisleben, in Schneeberg, in Johann Georgenstadt, in Giesen and in Wittenberg: from church testimonies and reliable family news , Schneeberg 1800
  • Attempt to provide a historical-statistical description of the mountain town of Brand , 1802.
  • Small fragments to attempt a scholarly history of bored Marienbergers: a contribution to the city history of Marienberg in the Saxon Ore Mountains. Graz & Gerlach, Freiberg 1806.

literature

  • August Gustav Christoph Aurich: First memorandum to the memory of Oberbergmeisters Schmid in Freyberg, b. in Marienberg , 1817.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Drafting and publication of the will and the entire estate of the chief miner Christian Wilhelm Friedrich Schmid from Freiberg
  2. ^ Estate of the chief miner Christian Wilhelm Friedrich Schmid from Freiberg
  3. ↑ Directory of the library of Mr. Christian Wilhelm Friedrich Schmid, because. Oberbergamtsassessor and Oberbergmeisters, which, along with an appendix of books from all sciences, are to be auctioned on June 29, 1807 and the following days here in Freyberg's former house, on Untermarkt 1 stair up against cash payment according to auction usage.
personal data
SURNAME Schmid, Christian Wilhelm Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmid, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saxon chief miner
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1739
PLACE OF BIRTH Marienberg
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1806
Place of death Freiberg