Friedrich Julius von Kniestedt

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Baron Friedrich Julius von Kniestedt (born November 20, 1765 in Burgdorf , † November 8, 1825 in Kniestedt ) was a German judge and landowner .

Life

family

Friedrich Julius von Kniestedt came from the old noble family Kniestedt , which emerged from a Hildesheim ministerial family ; the family had their headquarters in the village of Kniestedt .

He was the son of Georg Heinrich Gottschalk von Kniestedt, who owned the Kniestedt and Burgdorf estates. His father, who was the Braunschweig captain and deputy of the Hildesheim knighthood , built a new mansion, also known as "Burgdorf Castle", on the site of the former Asselburg near Burgdorf near Salzgitter between 1779 and 1783 ; his mother was Friederike Louise (born von Kniestedt).

In April 1800 he married Luise Charlotte (* 1779; † November 30, 1853), the sister of the later chamber director Gottfried Philipp von Bülow ; the marriage remained childless.

Career

Friedrich Julius von Kniestedt received his first lessons from French governesses and German tutors on his father's estate in Burgdorf, so that he learned the French language at an early age.

In 1780 he came to Braunschweig to visit the Collegium Carolinum there , whose rector was Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Jerusalem ; his teachers there were Johann Arnold Ebert , Karl Christian Gärtner , Konrad Arnold Schmid , Johann Joachim Eschenburg and Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann .

After finishing the Collegium Carolinum he enrolled at the University of Helmstedt in 1785 to study law , which he continued at the University of Göttingen until Easter 1785; there he heard lectures by Georg Ludwig Böhmer and Johann Stephan Pütter, among others .

Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel appointed him on December 2, 1785 as assessor of the two judicial offices in Wolfenbüttel , which in 1808, during the reign of the Kingdom of Westphalia , were united to form one authority (today: Higher Regional Court of Braunschweig ). During his stay in Wolfenbüttel, he used the extensive Herzog August library , viewed the works of art in the ducal picture gallery in Salzdahlum and interacted with the librarian Ernst Theodor Langer , the physicist Christian Leiste and the teacher Ernst Christian Trapp .

In the mid-1790s, Friedrich Karl von Strombeck came to Wolfenbüttel for the first time and made friends with Friedrich Julius von Kniestedt, who was appointed full court assessor with the character of a councilor on February 12, 1796 . On May 7, 1796 he was also introduced to the consistory , whose president was Jacob Ernst von Knuth (* 1739), to whom he was related on his mother's side.

During the reign of Jérôme Bonaparte he exercised the office of tribunal judge in Wolfenbüttel and the office of mayor in Kniestedt, and after the restoration of the ducal government in the Duchy of Braunschweig , he worked as a councilor at the district court of Wolfenbüttel.

After he had inherited the Kniestedt estate through the death of his father and his aunt Christine Sophia Luise von Kniestedt (* 1737 or 1739), abbess of the free aristocratic monastery of Steterburg , had given him in her will , he felt able to to ask for his dismissal without pension, and was dismissed on June 26, 1818, whereupon he moved to the Kniestedt estate.

Friedrich Julius von Kniestedt died as the last of the Kniestedter branch.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History | Higher Regional Court of Braunschweig. Retrieved August 8, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Kniestedt, Friedrich Julius von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and landowner
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1765
PLACE OF BIRTH Burgdorf
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1825
Place of death Kniestedt