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Gott (e) sleben is a German family name.

origin

The Middle German family name Gott (e) sleben / Gottleben can be traced back to the late Middle Ages and is first documented in 1320 with Hartmannus Goddeleve in the oldest civic register of the city of Hanover . In 1359 we find another reference to the name Gott (e) sleben in a conciliation document between the monastery Haina and the knight Gumpracht Vogt (Foid) von Geismar (Geysmar). In the document, Ritter Vogt waives claims to the goods, uses and rights of the monastery Haina and its gods ( gotslehin ) located in his court in Geismar .

The name then reappears in the town of Quedlinburg's document book in 1434 ( Thomas van Gotleben , also registered as Thoman von Goclieb ). Seventy years later, in 1503, 1508 and 1516, in the document books of the monasteries of Eschwege, we find Hans Gotzleben (also Gotslebben and Gottisleben ) resident in Geismar in Upper Bavaria, and in 1512 in Allendorf an der Werra there is documentary evidence of Claus Gotsleben . In 1571, a tower guard (Turmplaser) Hans Gotleben from Staßfurt (Stasfurt) was accepted into the salary state of Ludwig the Elder, Landgrave in Upper Hesse . And in 1580 we find Anna Gotslebin and Melchior Gotsleben, who lived in Motzenrode in Eichsfeld, in the accounting books of those of Boyneburg-Honstein .

A Johann (es) Gottsleben ( Gotslebius , also called Theobius ) is listed in the registers of the Universities of Marburg and Jena in 1574, 1579 and in the summer semester of 1586 . Johannes Gottsleben , born around 1559/60 in Allendorf on the Werra, had completed his theology studies at the young Lutheran University of Marburg in 1579 with the academic degree of a Magister artium and in the spring of 1586 probably a young noble gentleman or wealthy bourgeois son as tutor and mentor accompanied to study in Jena. A year later, Count Johann VI. from Nassau-Dillenburg Johannes Gottsleben to Herborn , where he became the first director (pedagogical research) of the newly founded pedagogy and full professor of philosophy at the Calvinist High School Johannea, which had existed since 1584 . In Herborn, Johannes Gottsleben married Anna Maria from the respected official family Hoen in 1589. From 1599 to 1604 he was a preacher at the court of Count Johann VI. in Dillenburg and inspector of the churches and schools of the Diocese of Dillenburg, then pastor in Krombach near Siegen . His second eldest son, Johann Bernhard Gottsleben, was the first pastor in Dillenburg until he and his family died in 1635. The family name Gottsleben died out with him in Nassau-Dillenburg.

The spelling Gottleben , which we have known since 1571 through the tower guard Hans Gotleben from Upper Hesse, can be found again in Lübeck in 1610. The merchant Valentin Gottleben (* around 1580; † February 20, 1645 in Lübeck), who is also listed in documents under the name variants Gottlebend , Godtlebent , Godtlevendt , Gudtleventh , Gottleue , Gottleve , Gottlieb and Gottleuens , acquired civil rights in Lübeck and in 1610 married Catharina Lütken's second marriage on September 23, 1612 (* around 1592 in Lübeck; † in Lübeck). Her sons Johann (born January 8, 1620 in Lübeck; † November 15, 1684 in Riga. Dockmann , senior man of the Great Guild and councilor) and Gabriel (* 1625 in Lübeck; † August 10, 1673 in Björneborg. Merchant and councilor) left Lübeck in the Thirty Years War and sought their fortune in Riga and Finland. Johann Gottleben became a citizen in Riga and Gabriel Gottleben , after a stay in Turku (Swedish Åbo), a citizen in Pori (Swedish Björneborg). The Rigaic Gottleben line , which founded the influential Berens family in 1671 through the marriage of Catharina Gottleben (* 1653 in Riga; † 1689 in Riga) with Hans Hinrich Berens (* 23 November 1643 in Rostock; † 10 April 1701 in Riga) , died out, the Finnish line Gottleben can still be traced to the present day.

In the 17th century there was a Georg Gottleben (* around 1611, † 11 July 1671) living in the Bornhöved / Holstein parish . There he was introduced as the new preacher on August 25, 1661. Before that he worked 8 years as a deacon in Segeberg. The name Gottleben is no longer proven in Germany today (2014).

etymology

According to previous knowledge, the name Gott (e) sleben / Gottleben is a name of origin after the place name Kutzleben , old Gozzenleber, Weissensee district in Thuringia . Names of origin after place names are generally based on the names of those places - today sometimes desolations - from which the people concerned moved. The place name Kutzleben as well as the name of the noble von Kutzleben family is derived from the proper name Chuzzo . The name part -leben (lev = inheritance, legacy) always occurs in connection with proper names and means hereditary yard or seat of the respective first name bearer. The front part of the family name Gott (e) sleben / Gottleben could also refer to the clan of a landlord. The part of the name -leben (Old High German leiba, Low German -lev (e), -loff and Nordic -lev, -löf) is one of the most common components of German place names, especially in the northern part of Old Thuringia.

Rudolf Zoder names another place name Gottleuba, Pirna district in Saxony and Max Gottschald, a place that was probably lost, Kurzleben, old Cortlever.

We find the name Gott (e) sleben mainly in Eichsfeld , in northern Hesse and in southern Lower Saxony until the 19th century .

The assumption that the name Gott (e) sleben / Gottleben can be derived from the attribute “leading a godly life” must be ruled out.

Notation

Over the centuries, the spelling of the name Gott (e) sleben has changed several times. So far, the name forms Goddeleve (also Godeleve), Gottleve, van Gotleben (also from Goclieb), Gottsleb, Gotslebius (Latinized form of Gottsleben, also Theobius), Gotsleben, Gotslebben, Gotzleben, Gottisleben, Gottlebe and Gottleben.

Biographies of those who bear the name of God (s)

Literature / sources

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