Christoph Woltereck

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Christoph Woltereck (born July 1, 1686 in Glückstadt ; † June 11, 1735 in Wolfenbüttel ) was a German official and poet.

ancestors

Paternal ancestors of the Christoph Wolterecks family lived as citizens in Goslar since the 15th century . Johann Woltereck (1618–1679) went to Glückstadt in 1664 , where he worked as a royal Danish mint master. He handed this task over to his nephew Christoph Friedrich Woltereck (* February 13, 1656 - September 18, 1718), who was also the mayor of Glückstadt. He was married to Anna Dorothea, née Röhri, who died before 1700. She was a daughter of the Swedish chancellery Griso Röhri from Stade and the widow of the Stader mint master Andreas Hille. Christoph Friedrich Woltereck married Anna Katharina Gude for the second time in 1700 and Margaretha Dorothea Esmarch for the third time in 1707, who was a daughter of Nicolaus Ludwig Esmarch .

Live and act

Christoph Woltereck was a son of Christoph Friedrich Woltereck. He first attended a school in Glückstadt and from Easter 1700 studied with Johannes Moller at the Flensburg School of Academics. In May 1703 he moved to Hamburg to study with Johann Albert Fabricius at the Academic Gymnasium . In April 1706 he enrolled in Leipzig to study theology, but after a short time switched to legal and philological-literary departments.

In 1708/09 Woltereck took over the editing of the review work “Detailed report on all kinds of new books”. From 1710 he worked with the renowned magazine Acta Eruditorum . His parents signaled to him that he could join the civil service if necessary. Therefore he went back to Glückstadt in 1710, where he did not get the job he wanted. After that he tried to find a civil servant position in Hamburg just as unsuccessfully. In the years that followed, he wrote casual poems with the hope of finding influential patrons who could help him get a job. He had no success with that either. In 1714 he moved to Goslar , where he continued to write poetry and continued to woo patrons without results. In 1717 he wanted to go back to Glückstadt. During his trip in Wolfenbüttel he took on the task of bringing order to the archive of the Marienkirche and evaluating it.

In 1720 Woltereck received a position as private secretary from Hieronymus von Münchhausen . In the following year he received the desired position in the civil service as an actuary. In 1725 he was appointed secretary and in 1731, after Duke Ludwig Rudolf took over the government, he was appointed chief bailiff of the Wolfenbüttel office.

Woltereck's curriculum vitae is a clear example of young middle-class people of his time who tried to make a career outside of church or universities after graduating. In order to find appropriate positions, they often wrote poems, especially occasional poems, in the hope of being able to advertise themselves. Without legal training, they usually only managed a modest career in administration.

In his antiquarian and compilatory works, which he created during his studies and in Wolfenbüttel, he worked in late baroque polyhistorism, which he had learned from Fabricius and Moller. The poems that he wrote between 1705 and 1715 and his spiritual poems, which appeared in print in 1731, he made a little more modern. It was formally pleasing social poetry in which the poet argued discursively. Christoph Heinrich Amthor and Nicolaus Ludwig Esmarch worked similarly in Schleswig-Holstein during this time .

family

On April 6, 1724 Woltereck married Francisca Elisabeth de Forestier (born January 19, 1694 in Berlin , † February 6, 1734 in Wolfenbüttel ). She came from a Huguenot family and was the daughter of Captain Etienne Forestier de la Forrest, who was born in Prussia. From this marriage came the son Siegmund Ludwig (* July 1, 1724, † June 11, 1796). He worked as a legal advisor and archivist in Wolfenbüttel and died childless.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Dieter Lohmeier: Woltereck, Christoph . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 6. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982. ISBN 3-5290-2645-X , page 305.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Dieter Lohmeier: Woltereck, Christoph . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 6. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982. ISBN 3-5290-2645-X , page 306.
personal data
SURNAME Woltereck, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil servant and poet
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1686
PLACE OF BIRTH Glückstadt
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1735
Place of death Wolfenbüttel