Georg von Forstern

Georg von Forstern (also: Georg Förster or Georgius de Forstern and Georg von Förster or Georg von Forster and other name variants; * December 4, 1677 in Ansbach ; † November 21, 1726 ) was a German lawyer , court and government councilor and consistorial president .

Life

Georg von Forstern was born on December 4, 1677 with a twin sibling into the von Forstern family.

Forster studied in Jena at the university there , where he wrote his dissertation De Contractibus in Latin from Georg Adam Struve in 1688 . Principum ... took off .

In 1709 Georg von Forstern and his brother Jacob Wilhelm von Forstern acquired the Herbsleben Castle for 85,000 guilders .

Von Forstern, Herr zu Herbsleben , Burghausen and Buschschwobach , worked as the High Princely Saxon-Gotha secret council or court and government councilor in Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. He also held the office of Consistorial President in the Principality of Altenburg .

family

Georg von Forstern is considered the progenitor of the younger line of his noble family. In 1691 he married his first wife, Elisabeth Marie Sidonie or Elisabeth Maria Sidonia or Maria Elisabetha Sidonia von Vischer († 1695), daughter of the High Princely Saxony-Weimar Secret Council and Reichstag envoy from Vischer or Johann Justus Hartmann Fischer , with whom he had two children; Johann Friedrich Wilhelm von Forstern (1692–1736) and Friederica Sophia Christiana von Forstern (1694–1734).

In 1697, around two years after the early death of his first wife, Forster married Anna Margaretha von Bonhorst († 1706), who came from " Hanoverian ". With her he had three other children; Georg (1698–1723), Anna Helena (1699–1736) and Juliana Augusta (1704 – after 1733).

Forstern's house in Gotha

Von Forstern temporarily lived in a house in Gotha . When his father-in-law, the electoral Brunswick-Lüneburg mint master and director of the Clausthal Mint, Heinrich Bonhorst, came to see him there with his middle son and youngest daughter, von Forster went away. But Heinrich Bonhorst was shot by an unknown hand on the first night of October 2, 1711 in Forstern's Gotha home.

Fonts

De. Contractibus. Principum. / ... Sub. Praesidio. Dn. Georgii. Adami. Struven. ICti. ... In. Inclyta. Salana. Ad. D. Septembr. M.DC.LXXXIIX. Publice. Disputabit. Georgius. Ranger. Onold. Ms. author. Et. Respondens. Ienae: Müllerus, 1688: digitized version about the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Congratulations In Natali Serenissimo Principi Ac Domino Dn. Joanni Guilielmo Saxoniae, Iuliaci, Cliviae Ac Montium Duci ... Rectori Academiae Ienensis Magnificentissimo D. XXVIII Martii, MDCLXXXVIII Ex Voto Singulorum Feliciter Recurrente In Aede Academica ... Memoriter Dicta A Georgio Forstero , Ienae: Literis Krebsianis, 1688; Digitized

literature

Princely love for books. Treasures of the Gotha Research Library. Catalog of the summer exhibition ... from July 1st to October 3rd, 2004 . Gotha 2004, p. 88

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Information in the catalog of the German National Library (DNB) [undated], last accessed on April 18, 2020
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Johann Gottfried Biedermann : From those gentlemen of Forstern , in ders .: Gender register of the Reichsfrey immediate knighthood Landes zu Franken praiseworthy place on the Altmühl which from the most proven documents, purchase fief and Heyrath letters, Entire grave inscriptions and exact information obtained from the Graeflich-Freyherrlich- and noble houses described in the present order and correctly compiled , Bayreuth produced in the printing plant of the High Princely-Brandenburgisch-Culmbachisch-Bayreuthischen privileged Hof-Canzley- and the Collegii illustris Christianernestini book printers Elias Dietzel, 1748, Tabula CL; Digitized via Google books
↑ n.v . : Information on the person Forster, Georg in the DNB catalog [undated], last accessed on April 18, 2020
↑ Information on the website of the University of Halle
^ O. V .: Some important dates from the history of the municipality of Hersleben , in: Municipality of Hersleben. We introduce ourselves , 4th edition, ed. in cooperation with the municipality of Hersleben, Mering: Mediaprint Infoverlag, 2014, pp. 6–7; as a PDF document from total-lokal.de
↑ ^a ^b Information on the directory of the 17th century prints published in the German-speaking area (VD 17)
^ Ortwin Meier: Der Kurfürstlich Braunschweig-Lüneburgische Münzdirektor Heinrich Bonhorst , in: Mitteilungen des Verein für Gothaische Geschichte und Altertumsforschung , 1929, pp. 30–40; Digitized by the Thuringian University and State Library Jena (ThULB)

personal data
SURNAME	Forstern, Georg von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Forster, Georg von; Förster, Georg von; Forstern, Georgius de; Forstern, Georg de; Forster, Georg; Forester, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer, landowner, court and government councilor in Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg, consistorial president and author
DATE OF BIRTH	4th December 1677
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ansbach
DATE OF DEATH	November 21, 1726

[DNB-1] Information in the catalog of the German National Library (DNB) [undated], last accessed on April 18, 2020

[Von_den_Herren-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Johann Gottfried Biedermann : From those gentlemen of Forstern , in ders .: Gender register of the Reichsfrey immediate knighthood Landes zu Franken praiseworthy place on the Altmühl which from the most proven documents, purchase fief and Heyrath letters, Entire grave inscriptions and exact information obtained from the Graeflich-Freyherrlich- and noble houses described in the present order and correctly compiled , Bayreuth produced in the printing plant of the High Princely-Brandenburgisch-Culmbachisch-Bayreuthischen privileged Hof-Canzley- and the Collegii illustris Christianernestini book printers Elias Dietzel, 1748, Tabula CL; Digitized via Google books

[3] .v . : Information on the person Forster, Georg in the DNB catalog [undated], last accessed on April 18, 2020

[4] Information on the website of the University of Halle

[5] O. V .: Some important dates from the history of the municipality of Hersleben , in: Municipality of Hersleben. We introduce ourselves , 4th edition, ed. in cooperation with the municipality of Hersleben, Mering: Mediaprint Infoverlag, 2014, pp. 6–7; as a PDF document from total-lokal.de

[VD17-6] Information on the directory of the 17th century prints published in the German-speaking area (VD 17)

[Meier-7] Ortwin Meier: Der Kurfürstlich Braunschweig-Lüneburgische Münzdirektor Heinrich Bonhorst , in: Mitteilungen des Verein für Gothaische Geschichte und Altertumsforschung , 1929, pp. 30–40; Digitized by the Thuringian University and State Library Jena (ThULB)