Christoph Jakob Kremer

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Title page of Kremer's “History of Elector Friedrich the First of the Palatinate” , 1766

Christoph Jakob Kremer , sometimes also Krämer (born May 10, 1722 in Worms , † April 19, 1777 in Grünstadt ) was a lawyer and historian from the Electoral Palatinate .

Origin and family

He came from a long-established Lutheran family in Worms and was born as the son of the legal consul and local historian Jakob Hartmann Kremer († 1729) and his wife Anna Maria geb. Faber († 1775), daughter of the Hanau city ​​physician Martin Faber.

The brother Johann Martin Kremer (1718–1793), most recently acted as a Nassau privy councilor and historian in Wiesbaden and Weilburg . The sister Katharina Jakobe was married to the Lutheran pastor Johann Heinrich Moder in Nieder-Ramstadt , the sister Friderika Juliana with the Count Ludwig Vigelius (1736–1788) in Grünstadt. A very beautiful portrait of the latter has been preserved in the Grünstadt City Museum , a work by the Baden court painter Johann Ludwig Kisling (1746–1815).

Live and act

Kremer's sister Friderika Juliana Vigelius in Grünstadt, painting by Johann Ludwig Kisling in the Grünstadt City Museum

Christoph Jakob Kremer attended school in Worms, after which he studied law, philosophy and German history at the University of Tübingen . His teachers here included Christian Ferdinand Harpprecht , Wolfgang Adam Schoepf , Israel Gottlieb Canz and Johann Jakob Helfferich .

His brother brought him to Grumbach am Glan as the archives registrar of the Wild and Rhine Counties . In 1759, Christoph Jakob Kremer was appointed a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich .

In 1760, Elector Karl Theodor appointed him to Mannheim as judge of marriage . In 1763 he became the Palatine, 1769 jülich-Berg court historians of and received the title of privy councilor . Together with Georg Christian Crollius and Andreas Lamey , he belonged to the leadership circle of the Electoral Palatinate Academy of Sciences, which he founded in 1763 . He wrote many historical treatises, including the "History of Elector Frederick the First of the Palatinate" (1765) , which is still important today as a source work and compiled entirely from documents and contemporary chroniclers . Kremer's "History of Rhenish France under the Merovingian and Carolingian Kings up to the year 843, as a basis for the history of the Palatinate State" , published posthumously by Andreas Lamey in 1778, is also an important basic work. From 1767 he also published the “Mannheimer Zeitung” with Lamey .

In the spring of 1777 Kremer fell seriously ill and withdrew to his brother-in-law, the doctor Ludwig Vigelius in Grünstadt, for treatment. Here, in the house of his sister and brother-in-law, he died a few days later. He had no family himself, but was single.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Weidlich : Biographical news from the now living legal scholars in Germany , Halle, 1781, Volume 1, p. 440; Online scan to brother Johann Martin
  2. ↑ Herbert Broghammer: Dokumed: local topography medical historical documents within current political borders of Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland and border areas , Verlag Shaker, 2003, ISBN 3832215603 , page 40; (Detail scan)
  3. ↑ Genealogical website for brother-in-law Ludwig Vigelius
  4. ↑ Digital view of the book
  5. ↑ Digital view of the book
  6. ↑ Website for the Mannheimer Zeitung (1767–1810)
  7. ^ Obituary in Acta Academiae Theodoro-Palatinae (Volume 5 Historica, 1783)
  8. ^ Acta Academiae Theodoro-Palatinae , Volume 5, Historica, 1783, p. 6; Online view
  9. ↑ Johann Christoph Adelung : General directory of new books with short notes and a learned indicator on the year 1777 , Leipzig 1777, second year, 4th piece (April 1777), p. 320 of the year; Online view
personal data
SURNAME Kremer, Christoph Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krämer, Christoph Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Historian and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1722
PLACE OF BIRTH Worms
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1777
Place of death Grünstadt