Georg Friedrich Sahlfeldt

Georg Friedrich Sahlfeldt (born August 13, 1769 in Dorpat , † February 26, 1817 in Simferopol ) was a German-Baltic lawyer and vice-governor of Tauria .

Life

The son of a Dorpater master locksmith and city elder, who after his death (1780) left his family behind in the poorest circumstances, attended the city school in Dorpat and became an assistant to the cantor of this school in 1782, chancellor in 1786 with the magistrate, in 1787 with the district court and soon afterwards also a recorder , Registrar and archivist of this authority. In 1790 he took the position of private tutor and economics clerk with the court judge Paul Ludwig Johann von Löwenstern in Kuikatz ( Livonia ) and in 1792 attended the University of Jena to study law. At Easter 1794 he followed his teacher Karl Leonhard Reinhold to Kiel , but returned to his homeland in September 1794 and became an advocate at the district court and magistrate in Werro .

On January 28, 1796 he became secretary of the Kameralhof in Mitau and was appointed professor of eloquence at the local academic high school on October 1, 1798. On January 9, 1800, he received permission to practice part-time law at the Courland High Court and on August 20, 1801 also at the Pilsen Regional Court. As a result of the increase in his legal transactions, he resigned his professorship on July 19, 1802.

On May 10, 1803 he was appointed legal consultant for the Baltic provinces of the Ministry of Justice in Saint Petersburg . From March 1804 he was also an editor at the second department of the Law Commission and from November 1804 also procureur at the Reichsjustizkollegium for Livonian, Estonian and Finnish affairs, as well as procureur at the Catholic and Uniatenkollegium . In 1807 he drafted a “Church Ordinance for Protestants in the Russian Empire”, which appeared in Mitau in 1808. He was then of the University of Helmstedt " Ultro et non petens " to Dr. theol. appointed.

In 1810 he resigned from all offices and retired to the Kalmükara estate in Tauria , which he had acquired from the naturalist Peter Simon Pallas . In October 1811 he was called back to the civil service as head of the border customs district of Odessa and from there transferred to the same position in Radziwilow . In 1813 he received the requested release at the Russian headquarters in Kalisch and returned to his estate via Mitau and Saint Petersburg in the autumn of 1814. On October 6, 1816, Tsar Alexander I appointed him lieutenant governor of Tauria . He had the rank of councilor and was a second-class knight of the Order of Saint Anne .

Sahlfeldt died on 26 February 1817 Simferopol to nervous fever , just like four weeks before his wife Karoline Gottlieb, daughter of the pastor Ferdinand Kupffer from Mitau, whom he married 1796th

Fonts

• Church regulations for Protestants in the Russian Empire , Mitau 1808
• To the St. Petersburg Protestant audience , Mitau 1808
• Comments on the draft procedural regulations for Courland , Mitau 1809

Web links

• Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Georg Friedrich Sahlfeldt. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital

Individual evidence

1. ↑ According to the annual negotiations of the Kurland Society for Literature and Art , Volume 1, Steffenhagen 1819 .
2. ^ Curriculum vitae based on the Baltic students in Kiel by Dr. William Meyer, City Librarian in Königsberg i. Pr., Kiel 1930, published as Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Kieler Stadtgeschichte, No. 35 .