Jacob Christian Menzler

Jacob Christian Menzler , modernized Jakob Christian Menzler (* 1776 in Holzappel , † after 1854 in Siegen ) was a German mountain official .

Life

Menzler was the son of the hut manager Johann Menzler (1736–1823) and his wife Johanna Susanna nee Bretz. He grew up for many years on the hut in Holzappel in the county of Holzappel , which came to Anhalt-Bernburg and in 1806 fell to the Duchy of Nassau . After attending school, Menzler went to the Bergakademie Freiberg in 1798 (matriculation number 498). His fellow students included the early Romantic poet Friedrich von Hardenberg , who later became the Saxon chief miner Sigismund August Wolfgang von Herder (1776–1838), the mineralogist Carl Konstantin Haberle (1764–1832), who later became the mining captain and director of the Brunswick mining and steel works Heinrich Gottlieb Ribbentrop (1776–1834), the lawyer Georg Freiherr von Weiler (1775–1835), the merchant Philip de Samuel Merian from Basel (1773–1848) and the later government councilor Friedrich August Leopold von Beust (1776–1802).

Immediately after starting his studies, Menzler acquired a register in which he entered his most important friends and acquaintances. This studbook was auctioned on November 20, 2017 for € 31,980 and presented to the public for the first time on May 6, 2018 in the Novalis Museum Schloss Oberwiederstedt . Menzler kept this register until 1811, at which time he was already in the middle of his professional life. He had at Nassau Bergamt Waldbreitbach a job as Bergmeister get. Menzler later moved to the Siegener Bergamt, where he was appointed mountain ridge on June 28, 1851 on the occasion of his 75th birthday by the Bonn Mining Authority. In 1854 he was retired. The artistically designed tomb of Jacob Christian Menzler has been preserved to this day.

His younger brother Ernst Menzler (1786–1842) also embarked on a career in mining and also became a mining master (for the Diez district ).

Honors

• 1844 Red Eagle Order , IV class

literature

• Peter Brommer: Inventory of the archive of the county Holzappel and the rule of Schaumburg (=  publications of the state archive administration Rhineland-Palatinate . Volume 83 ). Part 2. Landesarchivverwaltung Rheinland-Pfalz, Koblenz 1999, ISBN 978-3-931014-44-5 , p. 637 f .

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Bergakademie zu Freiberg. In memory of the celebration of […] , Freiberg 1850, p. 22.
2. ↑ The family book at the Ketterer Kunst auction house
3. ^ State and address calendar of the Duchy of Nassau , 1813, p. 52