Christoph Barthold Sharp

Christoph Barthold Scharf (* December 7, 1725 in Wölpe ; † December 4, 1803 in Osterholz ) was a German administrative lawyer and regional author.

Life

Scharf was a son of the clerk Joachim Sigismund Scharf and brother of the Verden Oberamtmann David Scharf . He studied from 1745 in Jena , 1748 in Göttingen , where he was a full member of the German Society . In 1749 he published a legal dissertation on “fines for fornication offenses also called broadcast or whore breaks”, presented “according to Braunschweig-Lüneburg law”. The doctorate to Dr. iur. was not associated with it after its use at the time. Scharf initially worked as a lawyer, perhaps initially in Nienburg . A work on Rauchhühner published in 1755 appeared with the place of publication Wustrow . In 1759 he was the clerk of the Lüne office . In 1766 he became a clerk of the Dannenberg office and from 1771 was also entrusted with the position of clerk. In 1779 he became a bailiff and in 1801 a senior bailiff in Osterholz near Bremen.

Since 1794 Scharf was the owner of the Fergersberg estate in Ritterhude and thus compatron of the Ritterhude church.

Works

• Complete instruction for a legal practitioner etc. Celle 1752
• The ecclesiastical state of the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and the associated duchies and counties after its inspections and parishes ... Hanover 1776
• The political state of the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg including the duchies belonging to it, and counties in which its cities, towns, villages, Adeliche Güther, and individual courts are compiled from private messages according to their jurisdictions and parishes and drawn up in alphabetical order . Lauenburg 1777
• Statistical-topographical collections for a more precise knowledge of all the provinces that make up the Electorate of Braunschweig as the second edition of the Political State . Bremen 1791

literature

• Wolfgang Dörfler: The early regional historian Christoph Barthold Scharf and his results on the church structure in the Rotenburg district . In: Stader Jahrbuch 2009, pp. 143–190