Gottfried Leonhard Baudis the Younger

Gottfried Leonhard Baudis the Younger (also Baudiss , Baudiss ) (* 26. July 1712 in Leipzig , † 17th September 1764 in Braunschweig was) a German historian, jurist and university lecturer. From 1761 to 1764 he was the librarian of the library of the Collegium Carolinum , the predecessor institution of today's Braunschweig University Library .

Life

The son of the lawyer Gottfried Leonhard Baudis' the elder studied law in Leipzig from 1729 . He obtained his master's degree in 1734 and was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD. He worked as a private lecturer at the University of Leipzig before moving to the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig in 1749. There he taught history, constitutional law and historical auxiliary sciences until his death in 1764. Duke Charles I appointed him court counselor in 1753 . In 1761, Baudis succeeded Johann Wilhelm Seidler as librarian at the library of the Collegium Carolinum.

In 1729 and 1737, Baudis published two treatises in Latin on the monograms and executive signatures in the documents of the German emperors and kings. He later overturned his theory of the monograms. Baudis' most important achievement is the collaboration on the German edition of the Annali d'Italia dal principio dell'era volgare sino all'anno 1500 by Ludovico Antonio Muratori .

Works (selection)

De sortitione magistratuum Atticorum contra Pythagoreos defensa: dissertatio epistolica ad Godofr. Leonh. Baudisium . Litteris Breitkopf, Leipzig 1734, OCLC 312071196 ( online - dissertation).
Monogrammatum imperatorum ac regum germanicorum: a Carolo M. usque ad excessum Conradi III. Analyze et usum in probationibus illustri ICtorum ordine permittente. Pro licentia gradum doctoris in utroque iure rite capessendi publico examini . Breitkopf, Leipzig 1737, OCLC 16112119 ( online - dissertation).
Participation in: Lodovico Antonio Muratori: History of Italy, according to the order of the years, from the beginning of the Christian time calculation up to the year 1500, translated from the Italian, and every now and then provided with comments in particular to explain the German history: Part 1 –9 . Leipzig 1745, OCLC 465912375 .

literature

Fritz Meyen : The librarians of the Collegium Carolinum and the Technical University Carolo-Wilhelmina in Braunschweig 1748-1945. In: Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch. Vol. 55, Braunschweig 1974.
Isa Schikorsky: Baudiss, Gottfried Leonhard. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 69 f .
Ferdinand Spehr : Baudiß, Gottfried Leonhard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 135 f.

Individual evidence

^ Fritz Meyen : The librarians of the Collegium Carolinum and the Technical University Carolo-Wilhelmina in Braunschweig 1748–1945. In: Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch. Vol. 55, Braunschweig 1974, p. 160.

personal data
SURNAME	Baudis, Gottfried Leonhard the Younger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Baudiss, Gottfried Leonhard; Baudiß, Gottfried Leonhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German historian, lawyer, university lecturer and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH	July 26, 1712
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH	17th September 1764
Place of death	Braunschweig

[1] Fritz Meyen : The librarians of the Collegium Carolinum and the Technical University Carolo-Wilhelmina in Braunschweig 1748–1945. In: Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch. Vol. 55, Braunschweig 1974, p. 160.