Friedrich von Roth
Karl Johann Friedrich Roth , from 1822 Ritter von Roth , (born January 23, 1780 in Vaihingen an der Enz , † January 21, 1852 in Munich ) was a German lawyer and royal Bavarian State Councilor and President of the Consistory .
family
He was the son of the teacher Christoph Friedrich Roth (1751-1813) and Christina Wilhelmina, née Hochstetter (1751-1823).
Roth married Katharina (Käthe) Merkel (1792–1842) in Nuremberg on September 10, 1809 , the daughter of market manager Paul Wolfgang Merkel (1756–1820) and Margarethe Elisabeth Bepler (1765–1831).
Sons are the zoologist and explorer Johannes Roth (1815-1858) and the lawyer Paul von Roth (1820-1892).
Life
Roth was a student of law at the University of Tübingen and received his doctorate in 1801 . Then he was legal advisor (consultant) to the imperial city of Nuremberg . From 1810 he was chief finance advisor in the royal Bavarian ministerial department of finance. From 1811 Roth was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1817 he was appointed Ministerialrat in the Ministry of Finance .
From 1828 to 1848 Roth was President of the Protestant Upper Consistory in Munich. He is considered the organizer of the Bavarian Evangelical Church . He managed to settle the so-called knee bend dispute .
The family estate with letters from Senior Consistory President Friedrich von Roth, his wife Käthe and their children is in the Bavarian State Church Archives.
Honors
- 1822: Knight's Cross of the Civil Merit Order of the Bavarian Crown
- 1837: Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown
- 1840: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of St. Michael
literature
- Alf Christophersen: Roth, Karl Johann Friedrich von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 107 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Adolf von Stählin : Roth, Friedrich von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, pp. 317-333.
- Ulrich Schwab: Roth, Karl Johann Friedrich von. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 8, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-053-0 , Sp. 744-746.
- Biography of Friedrich von Roth. In: Alexander Ecker: Law and legal history in the Bavarian Academy of Sciences from 1759 to 1827. Law Faculty of the University of Regensburg, 2004, p. 147.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria 1835, p. 23.
- ↑ Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria 1849, p. 20.
- ↑ Court and State Handbook of the Kingdom of Bavaria 1849, p. 29.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Carl August von Seckendorff |
Senior Consistorial President of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria 1828–1848 |
Friedrich Christian von Arnold |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Roth, Friedrich von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Roth, Karl Johann Friedrich; Roth, Friedrich Ritter von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | royal Bavarian civil servant |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 23, 1780 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vaihingen an der Enz |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 21, 1852 |
| Place of death | Munich |