Gregor Nitzsch

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Gregor Nitzsch (also Georg von Nitzsch ; born April 15, 1660 in Zitzschewig , † September 16, 1705 in Eutin ) was a German political scientist and legal scholar .

Life

Nitzsch was the younger son of Georg Nitzsch, who fled from Bohemia because of his faith; the mathematician and legal scientist Friedrich Nitzsch was his older brother. He studied law at the University of Leipzig and at the University of Gießen . In 1683 he became a lawyer in Dresden , in 1684 court master in Wittenberg , and in 1685 he worked at the court in Speyer . On July 16, 1686, he obtained a licentiate in law from the Giessen Academy and in 1689 became a prince educator in Darmstadt. On October 3, 1692 he was appointed full professor of ethics and politics in Gießen and took up this position on December 13, 1692.

On November 20, 1696 (97) he became associate professor of law. In 1698 he went to Lübeck and Eutin as a syndic of the Lübeck bishopric . In 1701 he was ennobled here by elevation to the imperial court palatinate count and received the title of Privy Councilor to the Prince of Holstein and Bishop of Lübeck August Friedrich of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf .

From his marriage to Catarina Elenora (born June 5, 1675 in Gießen; † September 5, 1720 in Kemberg), the daughter of Philipp Ludwig Hanneken , on February 28, 1693 in Gießen , is among others the son Wilhelm Ludwig Nitzsch , the daughter Elenore Christine Nitzsch (born March 25, 1697 in Gießen; † November 30, 1780 in Kemberg), married. on February 7, 1713 with August Müller (* December 17, 1679 in Meuro; † September 27, 1749 in Kemberg) provost and superintendent in Kemberg, and Margaretha Katharina (* November 6, 1693 in Gießen; † August 29, 1764 in Wittenberg ), m. July 29, 1710 with Gottlieb Wernsdorf the Elder , acquainted.

literature

  • A. Töpelmann: The University of Giessen from 1607 to 1907; Contributions to their history. Festschrift for the third century celebration. J. Rickers Verlag, Giessen, 1907
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder : Basis for a Hessian learned and writer story. Verlag Griesbach, Kassel, 1795, Vol. 10, p. 97

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Individual evidence

  1. see on this epitaph in St. Marienkirche Kemberg Catarinen Elenoren Hannekein