Heinrich Bacmeister

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Heinrich Bacmeister

Heinrich Bacmeister (born July 14, 1618 in Lübeck , † January 2, 1692 in Stuttgart ) was a German senior judicial officer and chamber procurator .

Live and act

The son of the Lüneburg Syndicus Heinrich Bacmeister (1584–1628) and Sara Dorothea Reiser (1599–1634), daughter of the Lübeck Syndicus Heinrich Reiser , was mainly raised and taught by relatives due to the early death of his father. His uncle Petrus Krüger, pastor at the main church in Kiel , took him in at the age of 13 and was his private tutor until 1636 . Then undertook Bacmeister with cadets from the family friend of the von Marschalck from Hechthausen a trip to Europe to attend the universities of Cologne, Leiden, Utrecht, Oxford, Paris, Orleans and Seaumur the study of law take. After three years he returned to Germany, was briefly accepted as a private tutor at the Hutloh family estate of the von Marschalcks family and in return received further financial support from this family in order to be able to continue his studies. In 1640 he went with his cousins ​​Balthasar and Jürgen von Marschalck to the Soröe Knight Academy on the island of Zealand in Denmark , where they stayed until 1643. Bacmeister then moved again to the University of Utrecht , where he fell critically ill and returned to Hutloh to convalesce.

After his recovery, he reported as an auditor in the German regiment newly established by Berthold Heinrich von Bülow , which served on the side of the Swedish army in the context of the Swedish-French War (1635-1648). Bacmeister remained loyal to this association until his honorable abdication in 1650.

Obliged by his previous regimental deployment to Nördlingen , he was now looking for a new challenge there, even as a newly married man. In 1652 he was by Duke Eberhard III. appointed by Württemberg as bailiff and bailiff to Neuenburg am Rhein . After the death of his brother Lucas Bacmeister (1622–1655), he took over the vacant position as university secretary at the University of Tübingen . Here he stayed despite an offer from Margrave Friedrich VI. von Baden-Durlach to take up a position as office director in Immendingen until 1672. After obtaining his doctorate in both rights on February 2, 1671 at the age of almost 53, he became a judicial councilor in the same year and only one year later promoted to senior justice council and chamber procurator. In this function, the Duke transferred him to Stuttgart, from where he attended, among other things, in 1676 the assembly of the Swabian, Bavarian and Franconian district estates, which advised on the improvement of coinage. This also gave him the opportunity to take care of his cousin Johann von Bacmeister , who had returned from the University of Strasbourg , who, after his father's sudden lack of funds, was urgently dependent on scholarships and job placement for his further legal career.

family

Heinrich Bacmeister, who is one of the founders of the Württemberg line of the Bacmeister family due to his job-related new home , was first married to Anna Barbara Seefried (1629–1676), daughter of the mayor of Nördlingen, Johann Georg Seefried. With her he had seven children, of whom his son Eberhard Bacmeister became a Princely Ostfriesischer personal physician as well as government and senior consistorial councilor in Aurich and is therefore considered to be the founder of the East Frisian line of this family. In his second marriage, after the death of his first wife, Heinrich Bacmeister married Maria Margarethe Keller (1640–1689), daughter of the secretary Johann Christoph Keller, who gave birth to three other sons. Six generations later, the Germanist and writer Adolf Bacmeister also belonged to the line that remained in Württemberg .

Works (selection)

  • Delibata Iuris ex Libro XLVIII. Digestorum / Quae… Praeside Wolfgang-Adamo Lauterbach… Publico Eruditorum Examini, ad diem Novembris, horis locisq [ue] consuetis, subject Henricus Backmeister…. - Tubingae: Cellius, 1658
  • Ad lib. III. Digest. tit. III . 1663 (dissertation),
  • De palmario advocatorum , 1671 (dissertation);

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