Christoph Hermann von Schweder

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Christoph Hermann von Schweder (born January 5, 1678 in Kolberg , † September 24, 1741 in Stettin ) was a German lawyer .

Life

He was a member of the patrician family Schweder, which was widespread in the Netherlands, Denmark and Pomerania. The family is said to have originally come from Scotland and been noble, but this cannot be proven. He was the son of the Brandenburg court and consistorial councilor Hermann Schweder, a lawyer with a doctorate. His mother was a née Kundenreich, the only daughter of the Kolberg lawyer and mayor Christoph Kundenreich . The renowned legal scholar Gabriel Schweder was his cousin.

Schweder was initially taught by a private teacher in his native Kolberg and then attended the public school in Kolberg from 1695 and from 1696 the Gröning College in Stargard in Pomerania . From 1699 he studied law, philosophy and history at the University of Tübingen for four years . In law, he was taught in particular by his cousin Gabriel Schweder and by Ferdinand Christoph Harpprecht and Stephan Christoph Harpprecht . He studied philosophy and history with Andreas Adam Hochstetter and Johann Christian Neu .

He later worked as a lawyer in Pomerania . He began as a trainee lawyer at the Stargard court . He later worked in Stettin , where in 1721 he became director of the medical college with the title of a secret council . In 1733 he was also the curator of the Academic Gymnasium in Stettin . He had made a name for himself in the professional world with his book Theatrum historicum praetensionum , published in 1712 . A second edition was published in 1727, edited by Adam Friedrich Glafey .

In 1724, Schweder received an imperial nobility diploma, which was confirmed for Prussia by King Friedrich Wilhelm I in 1729 . Schweder owned Neuenhagen, Streitz and Rothlow. Furthermore, in 1738 he bought the Ramelow estate near Köslin for 30 years, which passed into the possession of his only son, Philipp Ernst von Schweder, after his death. He also had a daughter.

Fonts

  • Diss. De dinumeramentis et reversalibus feudi, vulgo Lehnreversen . Tubingen 1703.
  • Theatrum historicum praetensionum et controversiarum illustrum in Europe. Or historical scene of the claims and disputes of high potentates and other rulers in Europe . Leipzig 1712. 894 pages. New edition: Leipzig 1727, 908 pages ( contemporary review )
  • Thorough news of judicial and extrajudicial posting of the goods, after the annual wear and tear, which not all from judges, commissaries, notaries, surveyors, witnesses and parties, but also in general, and especially in the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Cammin, beware to take . Stettin 1716. ( digitized in the digital library Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank-Steffen Schmidt:  Schweder, Johann Gabriel. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 37 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ^ Gustav Hugo: Textbook of a civilistic course . Volume 6, 3rd edition, Berlin 1830, p. 524 .
  3. ↑ Miloš Vec: Ceremonial Studies in the Princely State: Studies on the Legal and Political Theory of Absolute Representation of Power . Klostermann, Frankfurt / M. 1998, ISBN 3-465-02940-2 , p. 256 .
  4. ^ Ernst Hermann Kneschke: New general German Adels Lexicon . Volume 8, Leipzig 1868, p. 397 .
  5. ^ Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen . III. Part, Volume I, Anklam 1867, p. 425 .
personal data
SURNAME Schweder, Christoph Hermann von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1678
PLACE OF BIRTH Kolberg
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1741
Place of death Szczecin