Heinrich Georg Ehrentraut

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Heinrich Georg Ehrentraut (born April 4, 1798 in Jever ; † November 5, 1866 there ) was a German lawyer, private scholar and parliamentarian.

Life

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Heinrich Georg Ehrentraut came from a family that immigrated from Lusatia at the end of the 17th century and was the only son of the wealthy lawyer and regional court assistant Heinrich Christian Ehrentraut (1767–1835) and his first wife Friederike Marie Elisabeth born. Wolf (1772–1798), who died the day after he was born. From 1810 he attended the high school in Jever. After graduating from high school, he studied law at the Georg August University of Göttingen from 1816 and continued his studies at the Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg from 1818 . In Göttingen he became a member of the Corps Bremensia and the Corps Frisia in 1816 . After completing his studies and a five-month study trip that took him to Greece and Italy , he passed the first state examination in law in 1821 in Oldenburg. As a result he was an auditor in the Oldenburg judicial service and from October 1824 first secretary at the judicial office in Oldenburg. After the second state examination in law in April 1825, he came to the regional court in Jever as an assessor and married Margarethe Friederika Minssen (1805-1862) Sillenstede on May 12, 1825, with whom he had five children. Due to a serious mental illness of his wife, he left the judicial service at the end of March 1843 and was awarded the title of Hofrat , so that he could go on numerous bathing trips with her and devote himself entirely to his scientific interests as an economically independent private scholar.

After the outbreak of the revolution of 1848, Ehrentraut was elected a member of the Assembly of the 34 , the first parliamentary body in Oldenburg, in March and then a member of the constituent Oldenburg State Parliament, but resigned his mandate on November 10, 1848. From 1845 to 1849 he was also a member of the city council of Jever. As editor of the Jeverschen Nachrichten, which appeared as a supplement to the Jeverschen Wochenblatt , he was active as a liberal critic of the Oldenburg government from 1844 to 1847 . From 1848 he lived alternately in Hanover and on his estate Oestringfelde near Schortens , which he had acquired in 1839.

Frisian language research

During his studies in Heidelberg, Ehrentraut dealt with history, archeology, legends and symbolism in addition to law. There he met the West Frisian Eeltsje Hiddes Halbertsma . Inspired by Jacob Grimm's research , he endeavored to collect and edit Frisian documents, legal monuments and chronicles, but above all to research the Frisian languages . From 1837 to 1841 he visited the island of Wangerooge every year for several weeks and researched the local Frisian dialect , which was one of the last remnants of the East Frisian language . His nephew Johann Friedrich Minssen (1823-1901) researched the Sater Frisian language at his suggestion . Ehrentraut also dealt intensively with the history of Jever and East Frisia, but was more of a collector than a historian . He published his findings in the series Friesisches Archiv he founded , of which, however, only two volumes appeared.

Works

  • Frisian archive. A magazine for Frisian history and language. 2 vols. (Not published more). 1849 and 1854. Reprints 1967 and 1984. See Wikisource .

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , pp. 237-238.
  • Albrecht Eckhardt: From the bourgeois revolution to the National Socialist takeover of power - The Oldenburg State Parliament and its members 1848–1933 , 1996, p. 92.
  • Ehrentraut, Heinrich Georg. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 171-172 ( online ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 39 , 103
  2. ↑ cf. Arjen Versloot: The cheek-oogical. In: Horst H. Munske (Hrsg.): Handbuch des Frisian. Niemeyer, Tübingen 2001, pp. 423-429.
personal data
SURNAME Ehrentraut, Heinrich Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, private scholar and parliamentarian
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Jever
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1866
Place of death Jever