Hartwig Johann Moller

Hartwig Johann Moller (born February 14, 1677 in Hamburg ; † January 11, 1732 ibid) was a German lawyer , senior secretary and councilor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.

Origin and family

Coat of arms of the Moller family drawn by Eduard Lorenz-Meyer

Moller came from the Hamburg Hanseatic family Moller vom Baum . To distinguish it from other families of the same name, this family named itself after its coat of arms from the tree .

Moller's parents were the Hamburg mayor Hieronymus Hartwig Moller (1641–1702) and his wife Anna Margaretha Schmidt († 1691), daughter of the Jurate to Sankt Petri Johann Schmidt.

In 1708 Moller married Lucia Catharina Lemm, daughter of Paul Lemm. The couple had nine children, but all of the sons died unmarried. The judge Hieronymus Hartwig Moller was one of the sons. Of his daughters, Elisabeth Maria (* 1717) married Landdrost Gottfried Bogaert in 1738 and Cornelia Margaretha (* 1722) in 1747 the pastor of Sankt Nikolai in Billwerder Johann Andreas Geismer (1695-1759).

Life

After his education at Gelehrtenschule the Johanneum in Hamburg studied Moller from 1698 jurisprudence at the University of Rostock and the University of Halle , then traveled to Italy , England , Holland and Germany , and closed finally in 1702 as a graduated Doctor of Laws at the University of Utrecht from. When he returned to Hamburg, Moller first worked as a lawyer in his hometown, before joining the Lower Court on February 27, 1709 as an assessor . In 1710 he became the beneficiary of a vicarie at the main church of St. Jacobi . On July 3, 1713, he became a member of the Deputation of Hundreds, founded in 1709, which negotiated the Hamburg constitution with the imperial commission . When Christoph Wilhad Hilcken died in 1717, Moller was elected senior secretary on December 22, 1717 as his successor. On September 20, 1727 he became a councilor and held this office until his death on January 11, 1732.

Works (selection)

• Hartwig Johann Möller: Disputatio juridica inauguralis continens theses juris controversi, de rescindenda venditione . Van de Water, Utrecht 1702 ( online at Google Books).

literature

• Friedrich Georg Buek : Genealogical and biographical notes on the mayors of Hamburg who died after the Reformation . Johann August Meißner, Hamburg 1840, p. 151 ( digitized from Google Books).
• Ulrich Philipp Moller : The Moller family in Hamburg . Fabricius, Hamburg 1856, p. 63 ( online at Google Books).
• Friedrich Georg Buek : The Hamburg upper elders, their civil effectiveness and their families . Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1857, p. 384 ( digitized from Google Books).
• Hans Schröder : Lexicon of the Hamburg writers up to the present . tape 5 , no. 2651 . Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1870 ( facsimile on the pages of the Hamburg State and University Library).
• Eduard Lorenz Lorenz-Meyer u. Oscar Louis Tesdorpf : Hamburg coats of arms and genealogies . Hamburg 1890, p. 273 ( digitized version on the website of the Hamburg State and University Library).
• Bernhard Koerner (Ed.): Genealogical handbook of middle-class families . tape 18 . CA Starke, Görlitz 1910, p. 306–307 ( digitized in the Internet Archive - also Hamburg gender book. Volume 1. CA Starke, Görlitz 1910.).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hans Schröder : Lexicon of the Hamburg writers to the present . tape 2 , no. 1185 . Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1854 ( facsimile on the pages of the Hamburg State and University Library). Facsimile ( memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
3. ^ Johann Albert Fabricius : Memoriarum Hamburgensium . 2. Vol. Christian Liebezeit, Hamburg 1710, p. 636 ( digitized from Google Books).
4. ^ Nicolaus Adolf Westphalen : Haupt-Receß der Stadt Hamburg . In: History of the main basic laws of the Hamburg constitution . 1st volume. Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1844, p. 31 ( digitized from Google Books).

predecessor	Office	successor
Christoph Wilhad Hilcken	Senior Secretary to Hamburg 1717–1727	Johann Julius Anckelmann