Georg Caspar Leopard

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Georg Caspar Leopard (born December 3, 1749 in Melbach ; † November 24, 1834 ) was rentmaster of the noble fräuleinstift monastery Altenberg near Wetzlar , after the secularization of Solms-Braunfels a manager and estate owner. The author of scientific works on agriculture was married to Anna Barbara Schmidt.

Leopard came from a family of pastors, rentmasters and administrators of large farm estates who had lived in Melbach since the 17th century. These included goods from the Schenck zu Schweinsberg , from Solms-Braunfels and the Altenburg monastery near Wetzlar.

Together with the Melbach mayor and member of the state parliament Christoph Keil , he was a member of the Agricultural Association for the Province of Upper Hesse.

A total of 25 scientific papers and reports have come down to us. In 1807 he received a silver trophy from the city of Frankfurt in recognition of his services.

Works (in selection)

  • The Wetterau in geographical = statistical and national economic terms, as well as in its grain = trade; in addition to waving and suggestions to raise the same from GC Leopard. Vormahligen Fürstl. Solms = Braunfels rent master and current landowner in Mehlbach, in the Wetterau. Edited with comments and a preface, by Dr AFW Crome , Großherzogl. Hessian secret government council and professor of state and cameral sciences, at the University of Giessen. Giessen 1816.
  • About the grain = trade in the Wetterau. Frankfurt and Leipzig.
  • Expert opinion on the Colonie Dillingen near Homburg before the height before its creation.

literature

  • New necrology of the Germans. Twelfth year 1834. Second part. Weimer 1836. pp. 1008-1010.
  • Eugen Rieß: Melbach - Meelbach - Melpach - Melbbach. 1200 years in the middle of the Wetterau. A local history . Wölfersheim 2018, pp. 404-415.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eugen Rieß, Melbach, pp. 412-414
  2. ↑ Eugen Rieß, Melbach, p. 404
personal data
SURNAME Leopard, Georg Caspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Rentmaster of the Fräuleinstift Monastery Altenberg, Solms-Braunfels administrator and estate owner
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1749
PLACE OF BIRTH Melbach
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1834