Ernst Christian Wilhelm Ackermann

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Ernst Christian Wilhelm Ackermann (born June 14, 1761 in Weimar ; † October 4, 1835 in Jena ) was a Weimar civil servant , writer and childhood friend of the playwright August von Kotzebue .

Ackermann grew up in Weimar and got to know the later dramatist August von Kotzebue . From 1779 to 1782 he studied at the universities of Leipzig and Jena . After his father had started a job as a judicial officer in Ilmenau in 1780 , Ernst Christian Wilhelm Ackermann followed him to this city in 1782 and became an official auditor and tutor there . After the death of his father, he took over his position in 1792.

It is reported that during this time he made great contributions to the development of the Ilmenau office, which is separate from the rest of Saxony-Weimar , and its judicial system. After Ilmenau was financially worse off than Weimar in the course of an administrative reform in 1815, Ackermann asked Grand Duke Carl August for his dismissal as a judicial officer. He then became a secret trainee lawyer in the Weimar Ministry of Justice in 1816 . He held this position until his retirement in 1826.

During this time he also began, initially anonymously, to write texts for the conservative weekly literary papers of his friend von Kotzebue. After his death in 1819, Ackermann became the sole editor and editor of this newspaper.

Works

  • August von Kotzebue. Truly and faithfully portrayed from his own written communications by one of his childhood friends . Hoffmann Verlag, Weimar 1819.

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personal data
SURNAME Ackermann, Ernst Christian Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1761
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH October 4, 1835
Place of death Jena