Ernst Wilhelm Küstner

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Ernst Wilhelm Küstner (born November 3, 1759 in Leipzig , † September 21, 1836 in Wurzen ) was a German lawyer , councilor , manor and canon .

Life

He came from a family of scholars in Leipzig and embarked on an administrative career. Like many of his ancestors, he became a lawyer in the service of the Elector and King of Saxony. The Leipzig lawyer Christian Wilhelm Küstner (1721–1785) was his father, whose property he inherited after his death. Emerentia Charitas nee Schneider was his mother, but she died at a young age, so that his father married a second time and he used with the stepmother Dorothea Elisabeth. Judge born Gaudlitz grew up.

He received his PhD on 20 April 1782 of the University of Leipzig Dr. jur. The subject of his dissertation was: De Antiqvissimis Mercatvrae Ivdiciis , Lipsiae 1782. As a lawyer he worked at the court court and the consistory in Leipzig . From 1783 to 1794 he was councilor of the trade fair city of Leipzig.

In 1811 he was senior and scholastic of the cathedral chapter Wurzen (Kingdom of Saxony) and Canon of Zeitz (from 1815: Kingdom of Prussia).

In Trossin he became the owner of the manor there, which came to the family through his wife and remained in the possession of the Küstner family until the land reform in 1945 .

family

Ernst Wilhelm Küstner married Erdmuthe Christiane (1766–1846) on September 16, 1785, the daughter of Councilor Chamberlain Christian Gottlob Frege from Leipzig. His eldest son was Christian Wilhelm Küstner (1787–1843), followed by Moritz Küstner (1790–1859) and their daughter Cäcilie.

The doctor Otto Küstner is his grandson.

Works (selection)

  • Respondent to Christian Friedrich Pohl's habilitation disputation: De Codicibvs Gregoriano Atqve Hermogeniano Commentatio Historica , Leipzig 1777.
  • De publica rei librariae cura imprimis Lipsiensi , Leipzig, 1778 (work on obtaining the Baccalaureus degree) ( digital version of the MDZ )
  • Commentarii De Rebus Novis Literariis 1779 , Helmstedt, Leuckart, 1779
  • Ordinarius senior caeterique assessores facultatis iuridicae Lipsiensis summos in iure honores [...] , 1782 (doctoral degree)
  • De antiquissimis mercaturae iudiciis specimen I. , 1782 (dissertation)

Honors

In 1789 he was accepted into the Leipzig Economic Society .

literature

  • Karin Kühling, Doris Mundus: Leipzig's ruling mayors from the 13th century to the present. Sax-Verlag Beucha, 2000. ISBN 3-934544-02-9 . P. 48
  • Heinrich Geffcken; Chaim Tykocinski: Foundation book of the city of Leipzig , Leipzig 1905, p. 307
  • Friedrich Theodor Richter: Year booklet on the history of Leipzig and calendar for the memorial days of its most remarkable inhabitants , Leipzig, 1863, p. 123 ( digitized version )
  • Christoph Weidlich : Biographical news from the legal scholars living now in Germany , Halle, Volume 4, 1785, pp. 127–129 ( digitized version )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leipziger gelertes diary , 1782
  2. ^ State and Address Manual of the States of the Rhenish Federation for 1811 , p. 378.
  3. ↑ Files on Ernst Wilhelm Küstner , Gutsarchiv Trossin in the State Archives Saxony-Anhalt
  4. ↑ Birgit Richter: Christian Gottlob Frege (1715–1781). For the 300th birthday of the famous Leipzig banker. In: Leipzig city history. Yearbook 2015. Sax-Verlag, Markkleeberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-86729-172-9 , p. 111 (excerpt) .
  5. ↑ Entry in CERL Thesaurus
personal data
SURNAME Küstner, Ernst Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, councilor, manor owner and canon
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1759
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1836
Place of death Spice up