Heinrich Andreas Koch

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Heinrich Andreas Koch (* probably in May, baptized on June 2, 1707 in Helmstedt ; † August 27, 1766 in Wolfenbüttel ) was a German lawyer and Braunschweig regional historian.

Live and act

The son of Professor Cornelius Dietrich Koch from Helmstedt and his wife Anna Dorothea (née Hake) studied law and history in Helmstedt from 1723. In 1730 he became an imperial notary in Helmstedt and in 1736 moved to Wolfenbüttel, where he first worked as a secretary at the Privy Council and in the war chancellery and from 1742 in the main archive. In 1747 he became court counselor in Wolfenbüttel and in 1750 real court counselor at the law office. He turned down the call for a law or history professorship in Göttingen.

Koch's main work, The attempt at a pragmatic history of the most noble house in Braunschweig and Lüneburg (1764) laid important foundations for research into Braunschweig's history. In it he describes the history of the Princely House until around 1530, with a focus on the history of the state. He explains in great detail the constitutional structure of the principality, e.g. B. Land divisions, princely treaties as well as constitution and rights of the Welfenlande.

Koch maintained a wide variety of contacts, e. B. to the lawyer and political scientist Heinrich Christian von Senckenberg . Koch's uncle was the well-known historian and poet Caspar Abel . He maintained an intimate relationship with his cousin Joachim Gottwalt Abel , who later also worked as a historian, and urged him to stay in Braunschweig as a universal heir, which he refused. Although Koch made him the sole heir, this decree was not implemented after his death, as Abel refused this with reference to the neediness of his relatives.

Works (selection)

  • Observata diplomatico-historica de iure Iustinianeo a Lothario imp. in Germaniam minime introducto , 1727 (with the lawyer and Helmstedt history professor Polykarp Leyser IV. )
  • De Exspectativis [et] investitura eventuali , 1735
  • Comments from the Westphalian courts also to the previous regional courts in Germany , 1751
  • Attempt at a pragmatic history of the most noble house in Braunschweig and Lüneburg , 1764

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Individual evidence

  1. See Paul ZimmermannKoch, Heinrich Andreas . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 379 f.
  2. Cf. Dieter Lent: Koch, Heinrich Andreas , in: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Dieter Lent u. a. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon: 8th to 18th century . Braunschweig 2006, p. 403.
  3. See Paul ZimmermannKoch, Heinrich Andreas . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 380 .; Dieter Lent: Koch, Heinrich Andreas , in: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon: 8th to 18th century . Braunschweig 2006, p. 404.
  4. Nekrolog der Teutschen for the nineteenth century, Fifth Volume, pages 311–338, Gotha 1806