Georg August Gabriel Heinsius

Georg August Gabriel Heinsius (born July 16, 1747 in Hildesheim , † March 3, 1818 in Niedeck ) was a German administrative lawyer.

Life

Heinsius came from an old Hentze family of civil servants in Witzenhausen who had their family name Latinized. His father was the Hanoverian bailiff and electoral councilor in the Radolfshausen district Georg Christoph Heinsius (1720–1788), his mother his wife Juliane Henriette nee. Cleve (1722-1778). He attended the Ilfeld monastery school from 1764 to 1766 and studied law at the University of Göttingen from 1766 . In 1777 he was an auditor in Hann. Münden and then entered the Hanoverian administrative service as clerk in the Uslar office and was transferred to the Radolfshausen office in 1787.

Office building in Niedeck

In 1792 he was first clerk in the Niedeck office , where he was appointed bailiff in 1798 . His tenure in this office, which had been administered jointly with the Reinhausen Office since 1777 , was an exception in that he was the only official who administered the two offices from the Niedeck office. During the French era , Heinsius remained in office as "Canton-Maire" of the canton Radolfshausen in the Kingdom of Westphalia and was not put up for disposition by the Kingdom of Hanover thereafter . He died after a long illness.

Heinsius married Elisabeth Magdalene Henriette born in Radolfshausen in 1786. Offeney (1766–1834), the daughter of a Hanoverian officer. The marriage had eight children. The marriage of two of her daughters to the sons Eduard (* 1782) and Alfred of the Göttingen professor Christian Gottlob Heyne from his second marriage to Georgine Brandes, daughter of Hofrat Georg Friedrich Brandes , resulted in a double marriage between the Heinsius and Heyne families.

literature

• Wolfgang Ollrog: The residents of the castle and the Amtshof Niedeck over the centuries in: Göttinger Jahrbuch Volume 1963, pp. 145–186 (p. 174 ff.)