Ignaz Philipp Rosenmeyer
Ignaz Philipp Rosenmeyer (born October 5, 1764 in Warburg ; † April 18, 1830 there ) was a German lawyer and historian . He is considered a pioneer in Westphalian cultural history.
Life
He grew up as the eldest son of the businessman Balthasar Philipp Rosenmeyer and his second wife Maria Anna Spanken in the old town of Warburg and first attended the Dominican school there . In 1782 he switched to the Franziskanergymnasium zu Rietberg , as the school had a better reputation in the field of philosophy and mathematics. There he lived with the famous court painter and cabinet maker Ludwig Bartscher . After finishing school he initially wanted to become a clergyman and received the tonsure on April 25, 1784 from the Paderborn Prince-Bishop Friedrich Wilhelm . With the support of a scholarship from the Warburg-Neustadt chaplaincy , he studied theology at Paderborn University and began training as a priest with the Warburg Dominicans. In the summer of 1787, however, he renounced the prospective benefices in order to study law and camera science at the University of Mainz . There he turned to the ideas of the Enlightenment and made friends with, among others, the Swiss historian and Mainz court advisor Johannes von Müller , who had a lasting influence on him.
In 1790 he moved to Paderborn , where he was sworn in as a lawyer and appointed Doctor juris by the Paderborn court judge and Imperial Count Palatine Friedrich W. Cosmann . He founded a law firm and married the wealthy merchant's daughter Regina Josephine Rode from Höxter in 1794 , who brought a dowry of almost 12,000 Reichsthalers into the marriage. The couple had 2 sons and a daughter. He renounced the position of a government councilor offered to him by the Corvey prince-bishop Johann Karl Theodor von Brabeck , which his brother-in-law Anton Rode had recently held. 1797–1798 he published a strong criticism of the conditions in the diocese of Paderborn anonymously in the Magazin für Westphalen . Due to an equally anonymous commitment for the Josephinist Ferdinand Becker , who was banned from church in 1799 , he finally fell out of favor with the prince-bishopric Paderborn .
1802 gave up his Paderborn office and moved with his family to Warburg, where his mother still lived in the Stern house. In 1804 he bought an estate in nearby Landau in the Principality of Waldeck for 9,800 Reichsthalers in the hope of being able to devote himself to the sciences there as an independent private scholar, in particular to "working out the history" of his "fatherland Westphalia". Lack of investment funds due to the depreciation of the u. a. Assets invested in Austrian government bonds , weeds in the areas with wild flowers and probably a lack of practical experience in agriculture meant that the property had to be sold again as early as 1807.
In 1808 the family moved to Kassel , where he tried to get a job with the newly founded Kingdom of Westphalia . Johannes von Müller had been personally appointed State Secretary by Napoleon and had been General Director of Public Education since January 21, 1808. Rosenmeyer dedicated the founding of a new magazine to him: " Archive for the history of geography, topography and statistics of the Kingdom of Westphalia ", possibly in the hope of being recommended for a permanent position as an archivist or similar. However, the magazine did not get more than two issues, and von Müller, who died in 1809, was only able to offer him a position worth 130 Reichthalers per month as an instrument of the "High Police" (secret police), which monitors the political opinions and attitudes of suspicious groups was responsible for providing. After the end of French rule, he was taken into custody on December 6, 1813 by the police of the re-established Electorate of Hesse in the Kassel fort in the Untereustadt . His wife, mother and daughter were able to visit him there on December 20th. He was released on January 31, 1814.
After that, Rosenmeyer returned to Warburg with his family, unemployed, destitute and in poor health. His older son was denied the desired career as a Prussian officer, his second son had become insane from the horror of his father's arrest. A trial by Rosenmeyer for his rehabilitation ended with the judgment of the civil governor Ludwig von Vincke on November 15, 1815 that he behaved "free of accusations " both in his previous life and in his function as an instrument and " helped many arrested people and many others Has prevented evil ". His application to the Prussian Justice Minister Friedrich Leopold von Kircheisen for re-admission as " Justice Commissioner at the Warburg City and Regional Court " was rejected several times with reference to " his behavior as a police agent ". First a public discussion of the " Rosenmeyer case " in the press and a submission to the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. finally had the effect that on July 21, 1817, not only was his innocence recognized and his application accepted, but that he was even awarded an "adequate pension" in view of his poor health and his son was made an officer. He lived and worked in Warburg for 13 years and died on April 18, 1830, nine days after the death of his mother.
Fonts
From 1797 onwards, Rosenmeyer wrote over 200 papers on various topics, most of which were distributed in magazines such as the Magazin für Westfalen or Westphälischer Anzeiger published by Arnold Mallinckrodt . To name are u. a.
- From the most significant shortcomings and shortcomings in the Diocese of Paderborn , from a local expert: Dortmund 1797 pp. 532–564 1798 pp. 246–270, anonymous, 1823 authorized.
- “ Biographical news from the Paderborn scholarly Prince-Bishop Ferdinand von Fürstenberg ”, Dortmund 1804, p. 870 ff
- Archive for the history, geography, topography and statistics of the Kingdom of Westphalia. A magazine in informal booklets , Vol. 1 and 2, 182 pages, Verlag W. Hampe, Kassel 1808
- The Roman fortress Aliso near Paderborn, against those historians who have ascribed such against better evidence to other provinces , in: Arn. Mallinkrodt's newest magazine of geography, history and statistics , issue 4, pp. 360–373, Dortmund 1816
- From the oldest public and private health institutions in Germany , in: Grote's and Raßmann’s Thusnelda , Coesfeld 1816
- Friedrich Spee , in: Grotes Jahrbuch für Westfalen and the Niederrhein 1 , Coesfeld 1817
- Features from the life of the famous Archbishop Ansgar , in: Mindener Sonntagsblatt 3, Minden 1819
- Konrad von Marburg , Mindener Sonntagsblatt 3, Minden 1820
- My journey through the little country Delbrück in the Principality of Paderborn , in: Rheinisch-Westphälischer Anzeiger No. 1, Dortmund 1821
literature
- N. Müller: Ignaz Philipp Rosenmeyer, Doctor Juris and Königl. Prussia. Justiz-Commissarius zu Warburg in the Principality of Paderborn , in: Historical-geographical-statistical-literary yearbook for Westphalia and the Lower Rhine , ed. by Carl Wilhelm Grothe, Vol. 2, Coesfeld 1818 [1]
- Johann Wilhelm Sigismund Lindner: Rosenmeyer , in: The learned Teutschland or Lexicon of the now living German writers , vol. 19, p. 422, ed. by Johann Samuelansch , Lemgo 1823 [2]
- Franz Flaskamp : Ignaz Philipp Rosenmeyer (1764-1830), a pioneer of Westphalian cultural history , Wiedenbrück 1966
- Johann Huebner's newspaper and conversation lexicon , 3rd part MR, Leipzig 1826 [3]
Individual evidence
- ↑ Flaskamp 1966, title
- ^ Fine furniture from Westphalia, LWL press release of May 9, 2003 on the Bartscher family
- ↑ Of the most significant defects and shortcomings in the Bißthum Paderborn, part 1 part 2
- ↑ Müller 1818, pp. 255-256
- ↑ Müller 1818, p. 243
- ^ Cabinet order of Friedrich Wilhelm III., Carlsbad, July 21, 1817
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rosenmeyer, Ignaz Philipp |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rosenmeyer, Ignaz (short) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 5, 1764 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 18, 1830 |
| Place of death | Warburg |