Franz Wilhelm Scharf

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Franz Wilhelm Scharf (* 1762 in Leipzig ; † July 20, 1823 in Schkortleben ) was an electoral Saxon and from 1806 royal Saxon court counselor and chief post commissioner, leaseholder of the newspaper commission and a civil manor owner .

Life

Scharf came from a middle-class background and had earned a reputation and the necessary financial income to buy one of the Saxon knightly estates, which had been given as a manfief , through good service on behalf of the Elector Friedrich August von Sachsen and later King of Saxony at the court in Dresden and as Chief Post Commissioner. This is how Schkortleben came into his possession in the Merseburg Abbey . In 1817 he also acquired the village of Oeglitzsch , also located in the Merseburg Abbey, for his son .

He was best known as a newspaper administrator through the publication of the Leipziger Zeitung (later abbreviated to Leipziger Zeitung ) from 1798 to 1810. He was followed as editor by the poet August Mahlmann . Scharf, on the other hand, withdrew more and more to his manor Schkortleben, where he spent the evening of his life with his family and saw how the area was ceded by the Kingdom of Saxony to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815.

On February 17, 1785 he disputed under the chairmanship of the lawyer Christian Gottlob Biener at the University of Leipzig on the subject: Delibata Ivris Pvblici Capita De Ivre Evndi In Partes Officioqve Imperatoris Ordinibvs Imperii In Partes Evntibvs .

Franz Wilhelm Scharf was married to Johanne Elisabeth née Ramsthal. Their only son, Eduard Scharf, was born on June 28, 1805 in Leipzig . Its first witness was the Imperial Russian real secret council, chamberlain and senator Count Sergius von Romanzoff. In 1857 Eduard Scharf was a lieutenant in the 12th Landwehr Hussar Regiment.

Scharf died of a flapping river on July 20, 1823.

literature

  • New Nekrolog der Deutschen [...] , Volume 1, Part 2, 1824, p. 903.
  • Helge Buttkereit: Censorship and the Public in Leipzig 1806 to 1813 , 2009.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leipziger Presse 1789 to 1815: a study on development tendencies [...] 2000.
  2. ^ Entry in the DDB
personal data
SURNAME Sharp, Franz Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION electoral / royal Saxon court advisor and chief post commissioner
DATE OF BIRTH 1762
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 1823
Place of death Schkortleben