Johann Adolf von Schultes

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Johann Adolph von Schultes , modernized Johann Adolf von Schultes , (born  October 29, 1744 in Reinhardsbrunn , †  May 29, 1821 in Coburg ) was a German archivist and historian . He earned lasting merit by working through the history of the county of Henneberg and the territories that emerged from it up to 1800.

origin

The father of Johann Adolf Schultes, Heinrich Wilhelm Schultes (1702-1770), was initially the Saxon bailiff at Reinhardsbrunn, became a princely councilor in 1751 and took over the position of bailiff in Themar in 1757 at the latest, which was jointly ruled by the principalities of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg and Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld stood after the then bailiff von Breitenbach, the owner of the so-called Vordere Schloss in Henfstädt , had died. Heinrich Wilhelm Schultes was married to Johanna Maria Gotter (1710–1780), the daughter of Ludwig Andreas Gotter and his wife Susanna Katharina Zinkernagel.

Life

The seventh and youngest child was Johann Adolf Schultes, born on October 29, 1744 in Reinhardsbrunn. Johann Adolf Schultes attended high school in Schleusingen and from 1762 to 1765 the University of Jena to study law. After completing his studies, he was admitted to practice in the sub-instances of the Themar office. In 1770 he was added to his elderly father as a joint administrator, official and court advocate with the prospect of a successor. On June 13, 1771 he was named bailiff in Themar as the successor to his father. In terms of salary, in addition to cash, he also moved into a vacant apartment in the office building with outbuildings (stables, barns, etc.), as well as natural goods, as was customary at the time.

In 1770 Johann Adolf Schultes married Johanna Charlotte Dorothea Spatz (1727–1791), who lived in Veßra Abbey , widow of Johannes Carl Opitz, who died in 1768. The only child of this connection, Johanna Christiane Louise (1771–1856), married Johann Friedrich Anton Fleischmann , cabinet secretary and composer at the ducal court in Meiningen in 1792 .

The young bailiff Schultes justified the trust placed in him and within a short time received honorable promotions in his office. At his request, Emperor Franz II raised him to hereditary imperial nobility by means of a certificate dated July 5, 1797, which gave him access to the family foundations of his second and third wife. In 1792 he married Ernestine Antoinette Caroline Luise von Imhoff (1771–1795), and in 1796 her older sister Friederike Eleonora Augusta Carolina (1768–1811). In 1803 he was appointed archivist to the state ministry in Coburg, where he was promoted to director of the state government in 1808. After he was suspended from work for health reasons in August 1817, he died soon afterwards in Coburg, on May 29, 1821 at the age of almost 77 years.

Even as a schoolboy he was interested in local history research. Soon after his appointment as bailiff in Themar, Schultes began his research on Henneberg history. Schultes complained bitterly about the low sales of his works on historical research and mentioned that Napoleon was preparing a translation of one of his works as a model for depictions of French national history .

Honors

In 1808 he was elected a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . Posthumously he was honored with a plaque in Themar in 1903 .

In Coburg, Von-Schultes-Straße, today Max-Brose-Straße, was named after him until 2015.

Works

  • Diplomatic history of the Count's House of Henneberg . Two volumes. Adam Friedrich Böhme, Leipzig 1788 (Volume 1) and 1791 (Volume 2), with a total of 555 documents attached.
  • Historical-statistical description of the Fürsteten Grafschaft Henneberg . Johann Gottfried Hanisch, Hildburghausen 1794–1815
    • Volume 1, Division 1/2: Introduction to the history, geography and statistics of the Grafschaft Henneberg . 1794.
    • Volume 1, Department 3: Historical-statistical description of the ducal Saxon community office Themar . 1796.
    • Volume 1, Department 4: Historical-statistical description of the ducal Saxon communal office of Römhild . 1799.
    • Volume 2, Division 1: Historical-statistical description of the Eisenachische Ämter Lichtenberg and Kaltennordheim . 1804.
    • Volume 2, Department 2: Historical-statistical description of the Ducal Saxony Weimar Office of Ilmenau . 1815.
  • Saxony Coburg-Saalfeld State History [...], Coburg 1822.

literature

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Ev. Church book Themar.
  2. ↑ Ev. Church book Themar.
  3. ↑ Ev. Church book Gotha.
  4. ^ Coburg State Archives.
  5. ↑ Ev. Church book Themar.
  6. ↑ Ev. Church book Themar.
  7. ^ State archive Coburg, see also Klaus Freiherr von Andrian-Werburg: Johann Adolf von Schultes .
  8. ↑ This was also said by Georg Brückner from the regional studies of the Duchy of Meiningen . (In this case, however, only Napoleon III could be meant, insofar as the volumes of Brückner's regional studies did not appear until 1851.)

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personal data
SURNAME Schultes, Johann Adolf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schultes, Johann Adolph von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German archivist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1744
PLACE OF BIRTH Reinhardsbrunn
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1821
Place of death Coburg