Christoph Friedrich Plathner

Christoph Friedrich Plathner (pseudonyms: Xenagogus, Philalete (s); * February 10, 1671 in Mühlhausen / Thuringia ; † January 14, 1755 in Gronau (Leine) ) was an imperial court count , royal Prussian court advisor and syndic of the imperial city of Goslar .

Christoph Friedrich Plathner

Life

His father, Andreas Plathner (1627–1695) , was a lawyer, attorney, senator and since 1686 mayor of the free imperial city of Mühlhausen, descendant of the reformer Tilemann Plathner from Stolberg. His mother was Anna Rockefuss (1643–1727). After attending grammar school in Mühlhausen, he studied (from 1685) law, philosophy and theology in Jena . He then worked in his father's legal practice. After his father's death in 1695, he continued to study law at the University of Halle, which he completed in 1698 as a licentiate in law. In the same year, on May 31, 1698, he married Eleonore Sophie Poepping in Halberstadt, the daughter of the Electoral Brandenburg Council and Stiftssyndikus Dr. jur. Johann Friedrich Poepping. From 1700 he was a consultant (i.e. legal advisor) to the mines of Harzgerode and Gernrode and from 1706 to 1727 syndic of the free imperial city of Goslar. Previously, the University of Halle had awarded him the academic degree of "Doctor of Both Rights" juris utriusque doctor for secular civil law and canon canon law, which was a prerequisite for the office of the syndic. After the death of his first wife († before 1709), Christoph Friedrich Plathner married Sophia Levina Binnenboese, the daughter of a mint master in Goslar, on December 3, 1709.

During a stay at the Imperial Court of Justice in Wetzlar in 1715, Emperor Karl VI. the appointment to Comes Palatinus Caesareus (Imperial Count Palatinate, Comitiv of January 21, 1715). A little later the King of Prussia Friedrich Wilhelm I awarded him the title of Royal Prussian Court Councilor. In 1727 Christoph Friedrich Plathner abdicated at his own request as the syndic of the free imperial city of Goslar and moved to Gronau / Leine, where he died on January 14, 1755.

Fonts

Christoph Friedrich Plathner published numerous works - some in Latin, some in German, some under pseudonyms - on legal, canonical and theological issues. He saw himself as an "orthodox Lutheran" and polemicized eloquently against the representatives of pietism , whom he denigrated as "sectarian" and "pietist rubbish" and accused of hypocrisy, "sham holiness" and "deceit of the soul". In particular, his criticism was aimed at the movement of the Moravian Brethren .

The Göttingen State and University Library lists the following titles:

• 1. A hundred basic sentences and clauses how a notary should and can administer his office honestly, rightly and with prudence / Christoph Friedrich Plathner. - [online edition]. - Nordhausen: Cöler, 1750
• 2. Problematic examination of the two questions: I. Will a person after death, on the last day with the same body, after he died, rise again ...? II. With what kind of body, if the chosen ones are to be transferred into blessed eternity? avail. from Philalethe / Philalethe. - Nordhausen, 1740
• 3. The spiritual paradoxical Charlatan, as it is and as such Joachim Mund, former deacon in Goslar and fornication and shamefulness because of 1737 suspended the second time from his office by Urthel und Recht ... presented at this world theater, along with various Remarkable Urtheln received therein, from Helsingör in Dänemarck, Helmstädt, Giessen, Wittenberg, Jena, as well as an impartial report and various notable comments for printing by Christoph. Fridr. Plathner / Christoph. Fridr. Plathner. - [Sl], 1738
• 4. Philalethis justification of his well-founded legal concerns de Anno. 1736. against Mr. Henrich Volckmar Stangen, Diac. ad D. Nicol. in Nordhausen, in his (vice versa) saved honor and teaching of the blessed man of God Lutheri, on the most improperly contested point, as if he (Philalethes) had begun to prove the religion from Aristotle / Christoph Friedrich Plathner. - Mühlhausen: Brückner, 1737
• 5. Well-founded legal concern, about Mr. Palaeologi Philymni Christian sensible thoughts, about the taste of the sacred songs, as well as Mr. Chilian Volckmar Riemanns, Mayor of Nordhausen, defending the new hymn book, and their two preachers, Johann Christoph Tebels, and Friedrich Christian Lessers, a well-intentioned letter to the Evangelical Citizenship in Nordhausen, because of the new North House hymn book / Philalethe. - Mühlhausen: Brückner, 1736
• 6. Ens rationis hoc est syncretismus religionum / Christoph Friedrich Plathner. - 1722
• 7. Oeconomia Juris Consistorialis ex sana philosophiae [et] jurisprudentiae universalis, non minus Romanae ac Germaniae principiis pro idea recte formanda: cum decade quaestionum exhibita / Christoph Friedrich Plathner. - Gosl., 1715
• 8. Centuria quaestiones / Christoph Friedrich Plathner. - (Goslar), 1711
• 9. Centuria ... Qvæstionum: In qvibus variæ juridico-politicæ nec non joco-seriæ ... Materiæ mediæ pertractantur & ... illustrantur / Christophorus Fridericus Plathner. - Goslar: König, 1711–1718
• 10. Disputatio Inauguralis Juridica. XXX. Theses Ex Jure Vario / Christianus Thomasius. - Halæ: Salfeld, 1697

Further printed and unpublished writings are listed in Otto Plathner: Die Familie Plathner, Berlin 1866, p. 184 ff, as well as Ders. : The Plathner family, first addendum, Berlin 1874 p. 331 ff.

literature

• Otto Plathner: The Plathner family . Berlin 1866
• Ders .: The Plathner Family, First Addendum . Berlin 1874
• Bernhard Koerner (ed.): German gender book. Genealogical handbook of civil families. Vol. 106. Görlitz 1939. p. 246 ff.