Ernst August Spangenberg

Ernst August Spangenberg (born October 21, 1689 in Barbis , † September 24, 1784 in Göttingen ) was a German lawyer and titular mayor of the city of Göttingen.

Life

Ernst August Spangenberg was the third son of the Hanoverian lieutenant colonel a. D. and Drost of the office of Scharzfels Peter Spangenberg (approx. 1643–1702), who lived in Barbis since 1689 , was born in Zimmerrode and was Ursula Catharina von Berninger (approx. 1652–1731). He first attended the convent school in Ilfeld , studied law at the University of Jena from 1710 , then was a lawyer in Hanover and from 1729 to 1772 deputy of the state parliament for the city of Göttingen. When the University of Göttingen was inaugurated in 1737, he became the Syndicus of the city of Göttingen. During the Seven Years' War when the French occupied Göttingen , he was taken as one of several hostages who were brought to Metz and later Strasbourg , despite good contacts with the French commandant of Göttingen de Beaux . At the use of the governor of Strasbourg de St. Andree and the Strasbourg university professor Johann Daniel Schöpflin , he was released early from hostage for a ransom. From 1750 until his death in 1784 he was the third mayor (titular mayor) of the city of Göttingen.

family

Ernst August Spangenberg or his father, Drost Peter Spangenberg, was the progenitor of a family of scholars who worked in Göttingen and Mecklenburg . Since 1738 he was married to Anna Lucia Friederica Jensch (approx. 1719–1796), daughter of a regiment archer. In addition to a daughter Dorothea Eleonora Lucia (1746–1822), who married the Danish chamberlain Johann von Döring (1741–1818), he had two sons, the Göttingen lawyer Georg August Spangenberg (1738–1806) and the Rostock university doctor Peter Ludolph Spangenberg ( 1740–1794), which established the two lines.

literature

• vB..r: More detailed biographical message from the late mayor Spangenberg , in: Neues Hannoversches Magazin , Volume 16, 1806, Col. 491 ff. (digitized version)