Ernst Friedrich Meurer

Ernst Friedrich Meurer (born September 20, 1660 in Tennstedt , † March 24, 1722 in Vehra ) was a German civil servant and lawyer. He was a royal Polish and electoral Saxon councilor and senior bailiff in the Thuringian district with his seat in Tennstedt and from 1713 manor owner in Vehra and Henschleben .

Life

Ernst Friedrich Meurer became the eldest son of ten children of “ Christian Friedrich Meurer (1625–1695), heir and court lord on Lützen-Sömmern , Trebnitz and Lauterbach and Churfürstl on September 20, 1660 in Tennstedt . Passed through to Saxony Highly appointed Creyß bailiff in Thuringia and to Tännstädt ” . His mother was Marie Justine, née Pfretzschner, the fifth daughter of the Electoral Saxon Justice Council Nicolai Pfretzschner, who was heir and court lord on Troschenreuth, Oelsen, Schwand, Oberschaar and Trebnitz. As a descendant of a family from which important legal scholars and evangelical clergy had emerged for decades , such as his paternal grandfather, the Elector. Saxon. The administrator of Planitz , Andreas Meurer (1592–1646), or his father, the “right-wing man, Mr. Andreas Meurer, Mayor of Stollberg ”, the professional development of Ernst Friedrich Meurer was mapped out.

As early as March 1678, he was defending his doctoral thesis entitled " Mediator " with Philipp Müller at the University of Jena . The significance of this dissertation for the history of mediation is dealt with by Renate Dendorfer and Josef Duss-von Werdt . In 1683 Meurer appeared as a respondent at the University of Wittenberg at a disputation in a public battle of words on a thesis among scholars . He worked as a doctor of law. When his father Christian Friedrich Meurer, after 36 years as district administrator, asked Elector Johann Georg IV to dismiss from his office for health reasons , “At that time his eldest son was ready to serve as Vice-Creys at his submissive request -Amtmann adjungiret “ . After a period of one year, the elector gave his father the dimission in October 1693 , and his son, Ernst Friedrich Meurer, took over the office of district bailiff for Thuringia and Tennstedt.

At the Michaelismarkt in 1713 he bought Johann Friedrich von Stammer's inherited manor Vehra with Henschleben from Leipzig .

When Meurer died in 1722, Johann Christoph Ernesti gave the funeral sermon.

Meurer was married to Johanna Catharina geb. Albert († October 26, 1705). In his second marriage he married Anna Maria Zeumer, the sister of the Chancellor Johann Christoph Zeumer (1685–1747). After the death of her husband, she bought the second estate as a retirement home for herself at an auction in 1728 from the property of the Tunzenhausen manor, which had split into two manors . She died there on June 9, 1749.

Ernst Friedrich Meurer left a son and two daughters. His son from his first marriage, Adolph Friedrich Meurer (* 1708 Tennstedt, † 1731 Mühlhausen ) became the heir to Vehra and Henschleben after the death of his father and married Catharina Victoria, born in 1730. Lutteroth (* 1711 Langensalza , † 1731 Mühlhausen), a cousin of the poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock . Their only daughter, Ernestine Friederike Meurer (1731–1757), married Friedrich Wilhelm von Selchow (1722–1789) in 1750 and brought the inherited manors Vehra, Henschleben and Branderode into the marriage. Since the chancellor Johann Christoph Zeumer was a co-leaned on the manors Vehra and Henschleben of his former father-in-law Ernst Friedrich Meurer, there was a legal dispute over loaned capital between the parties Zeumer and von Selchow, which was continued with their heirs after the niece's death .

His daughter Charlotte Friederike (1696–1721) was also from Meurer's first marriage. She married around 1716 with the chancellor Johann Christoph Zeumer. In this marriage the future councilor Johann Friedrich Zeumer (1717–1774) and Elisabeth Charlotte († 1740) were born. From Meurer's second marriage to Anna Maria, geb. Zeumer, came the daughters Louyse Friederice (* 1710) and Christiana Friederica Meurer (1713–1774), who after the death of her mother inherited the maternal estate of Tunzenhausen and thus became the owner of the second estate in Tunzenhausen. In 1732 she went with the Prince. Mansfeldischen Hof- und Bergrat and later office director in Eisleben , Dr. Johann Christoph Schmidt (1704–1781) entered the marriage. From this marriage the sons Gottlob Friedrich (later Dr. jur.) And Heinrich Wilhelm and the daughters Elisabeth Friederike (1740-1812), married. von Voigt , and Johanna Louise (born October 13, 1743, † May 23, 1824), married. Wenck . After Christiana Friederica Schmidt, geb. Meurer, who had died in 1774, was joined by her husband Dr. Johann Christoph Schmidt joins the inheritance. As a result, as the husband of the cousin of Hofrat Johann Friedrich Zeumer, after his death in 1774, he became one of his three universal heirs and received the Schönefeld manor and the third part of the Niederauerbach brass factory, which was privileged by the elector . After the death of Dr. Johann Christoph Schmidt In 1781 this property, which was subject to an inalienable succession in the form of a Fideikommiss from the former testator Johann Friedrich Zeumer in his will of 1774 , went to Johann Christoph Schmidt's son, Dr. jur. Gottlob Friedrich Schmidt. He sold it in 1783 to his sister Johanna Louise, married. Wenck, and from this the property went to the Herzogl in 1784. Saxon Gotha court attorney Johann Benjamin Zschackwitz, who sold it to Caroline Wilhelmine von Einsiedel in 1788 . The Tunzenhausen estate came into the possession of Johann Christoph Schmidt's daughter Elisabeth Friederike von Voigt, born in 1784. Schmidt, about.

plant

• Mediator. Bauhofer, Jena 1678. Dissertation, University of Jena. ( Digitalisat the SLUB Dresden ; further digitized by Google Books).

Web links

• Portrait of Ernst Friedrich Meurer at the picture archive Austria
• Entry in the CERL thesaurus

further reading

• Renate Schönfuß: The legacy of the Elector of Saxon Court and Justice Councilor Johann Friedrich Zeumer (1717-1774) ; in: Altenburger Geschichts- und Hauskalender 2015. E. Reinhold Verlag, Altenburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-9575-5004-0 . OCLC 898076898

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Portrait at the Bildarchiv Austria , Bildarchiv und Grafiksammlung, inventory number PORT_00140056_01
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Christian Friedrich Meurer, Marie Justine Meurerin u. a .: The In His Faithful Wohlerkante, of course, The ... Mr. Christian Friedrich Meurer ...; Funeral sermon, in: Christianus Pacatus Peripateticus: From the teaching and consolation verse 2 ... Pauli, Mühlhausen 1696. OCLC 257297328 Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel digitized 2011
3. ↑ Johannes Francke , Nicolaus Pfretzschner: Frightened and comforted father - from the 20th and 21st verses of the 71st Psalm - In the bey of ... Nicolai Pfretzschner / des Jüngern seel. Hereditary sires on Troschenreit ...; in: Funeral Sermon . Seyffert Gottfried, Dreßden 1666. OCLC 837041204 University and State Library Saxony-Anhalt Digitized 2009
4. ^ ADB: Müller, Philipp (Protestant theologian)
5. ↑ Out-of-court dispute resolution through mediation. Nonsense, old wine in new bottles or meaningful tradition? In: Joachim Hengstl, Ulrich Sick (ed.): Right yesterday and today. Festschrift for Richard Haase's 85th birthday . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-447-05387-9 , pp 219-226, here p 224 .
6. ↑ Homo mediator. History and concept of man in mediation. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-608-94146-0 , pp. 53-55. .
7. ↑ Francke Foundations in Halle (Saale) , Study Center August Hermann Francke, GND: 124699715  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ Johann Christoph Ernesti : The Christians firmly established in the faithful hope of their salvation ... [funeral sermon to Ernst Friedrich Meurer]. Mumbach, Weimar 1722.
9. ↑ The early, but blissful death of the high noble women Johannen Catharinen bohrner Albertin, of the high noble lord Ernst Friedrich Meurers, Sr. Königl. Maj. In Pohlen and Churfl. Passed through to Saxony Hochbestalten Raths and Ober-Amtmanns in Thuringia married loved ones, entrusted in the following followers close relatives. Heergarten, Langensalza 1705. See also the authority data of the German National Library.
10. ↑ ^{a b} Personnel Code of the Weißenseer Kreis / 083
11. ↑ Renate Schönfuß: The legacy of the Elector of Saxon Court and Justice Councilor Johann Friedrich Zeumer (1717-1774); in: Altenburg History and House Calendar 2015 . E. Reinhold Verlag, Altenburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-95755-004-0 . OCLC 898076898
12. ^ Otto Schröter: Klopstock sites in the county of Mansfeld. In: Mansfelder Blätter. 6 (1892), pp 176-186, here p 177. .