Georg Joseph von Knapp

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Georg Joseph Freiherr von Knapp (* 1726 in Mannheim ; † March 7, 1802 in Düsseldorf ) was a Jülich-Bergisch lawyer , legal historian , administrative officer and judge . From 1780 he officiated as Vice Chancellor of the Duchy of Jülich-Berg, a neighboring state of Electoral Palatinate Bavaria .

Life

Knapp was born as the eldest son of the Electoral Palatinate civil servant Georg Knapp († 1777), court chamber secretary , later court chamber councilor and cafeteria waiter of the Oberamt Kreuznach , into a civil servant family in the Lower Palatinate . Great-grandfather and grandfather had already held public offices there. Knapp studied law at the Philipps University of Marburg . In 1745 and 1746 he heard readings by the constitutional lawyer Johann Stephan Pütter .

On April 19, 1748 he was appointed Jülich-Bergischer Hofrat and Religious Commissarius in Düsseldorf . On March 15, 1750 he was sworn in as a member of the electoral secret council for Jülich-Berg. In 1756 he became fiefdom and sovereignty trainee, 1769 Jülich Higher Appeal Judge , 1773 Jülich subordinate commissioner, 1780 Jülich-Berg Vice Chancellor as well as Higher Appeal Court Chancellery and feudal director. As the sovereign commissioner for the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf, he also supervised the Düsseldorf Art Academy .

Entry in the yearbook of the poor welfare institution and address book of Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf 1801

In addition to numerous handwritten legal opinions and presentations, Knapp wrote a treatise on the Jülich-Berg amortization laws, which was published in 1786. He dealt in depth with the archives of his administration and left behind a 16-volume collection on Jülich-Bergische regional and legal history, most of which arose in the years 1795 to 1797, as well as material on a Corpus iuris Julio-Montensis and a collection of Jülich-Bergischer Edicts to 1801.

Knapp was considered learned and skilled. His sovereign, Elector Karl Theodor von der Pfalz , not only used him frequently to deal with particularly difficult questions of administration and feudal and constitutional law, but also sent him on diplomatic missions to foreign courts. By diploma from October 1, 1790 he raised him for his services to the imperial baron status .

Family, descendants and residence

Knapp was married to Maria Gertrud von Lohmer. The couple had two sons, Franz Xaver Joseph Freiherr von Knapp (1761–1793, Jülich-Bergischer jurist, court advisor and archivist) and Jacob, who became a clergyman, and three daughters, Philippine (⚭ Johann Gerhard von Lesecque), Adelgunde and Lisette ( ⚭ by Miller). Great niece Knapps was the poet Anna Maria Lasinsky , mother of the painters August Gustav and Johann Adolf Lasinsky .

In 1779 Knapp bought the Stockamperhof in Düsseldorf- Pempelfort for 3,200 Reichstaler . When his son lived there around 1780, Hofrat Franz Xaver Joseph von Knapp, who together with his father had the property's kitchen garden transformed into a pleasure garden, the Swiss painter Caspar Wolf made two views in oil showing his family in the middle of treetops and parterres show in the style of the French garden .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Stephan Pütter : autobiography for the grateful jubilee of his 50-year professorship in Göttingen . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1798, p. 120 ( Google Books )
  2. ↑ Attempt to find out whether the Gülich and Bergische Landesgesäze to clarify the same story should be brought into a systematic order in a collection, their amortization laws and the addition of two coin edicts from the Jars 1494 and 1620: drafted in 1786 . Stahl, Düsseldorf 1786 ( digitized version )
  3. ^ Memorable and useful Rheinischer Antiquarius . Rudolf Friedrich Hergt, Koblenz 1851, Part II, Volume 2, p. 72 ( Google Books )
  4. ^ Rainer Nolden: Archive pictures Düsseldorf-Derendorf . Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2002, ISBN 978-3-89702-404-5 , p. 64 ( Google Books )
  5. ^ The garden of Hofrat von Knapp, around 1780 . In: Wieland Koenig: Düsseldorfer Gartenlust . Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf 1987, pp. 26–29 (catalog no. 3.4)
  6. ↑ view of the so-called Knapp'schen garden , the portal website emuseum.duesseldorf.de , accessed on May 19, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Knapp, Georg Joseph von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knapp, Georg Joseph Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jülich-Bergisch lawyer, legal historian, administrative officer and judge
DATE OF BIRTH 1726
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1802
Place of death Dusseldorf