Johann Albert Dinnies

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Johann Albert Dinnies (born July 9, 1727 in Stralsund ; † September 21, 1801 in Stralsund) was a German politician, mayor and chronicler of Stralsund.

Life

Dinnies was the son of Lorenz Dinnies, from an old Anklam family, who ran a trading business in Stralsund in what was then Swedish Pomerania . His father taught him until his tenth year itself. Then visited Dinnies eight and a half years, the former St. Dominican monastery St. Catherine Housed school Stralsund and studied from 1743 at the University of Greifswald jurisprudence at Augustin von Balthasar and philosophy and history at Albert Georg von Schwartz . He completed his studies from 1745 at the University of Göttingen , where he studied law with Justus Claproth , Georg Ludwig Böhmer , Georg Christian Gebauer and Johann Jakob Schmauß and history with Johann David Köhler . He also studied classical as well as French and English literature.

After staying in Saxony and Brandenburg , he returned to Stralsund. After passing the exam, he became an attorney at the Greifswald court in 1748 . But his mother died at the end of 1748 (his father had died in 1739), so that, at just 22 years old, he took over his parents' business in Stralsund and looked after his siblings. In 1751 he was admitted to the Wismar Tribunal , the highest court for the areas of the Swedish imperial fiefdom.

Together with friends he founded the “Arcadian Society”, which was dedicated to French literature, and later also the “English Society” for the care of English literature. Their holdings were transferred to the council library in 1780 after the association was dissolved.

Dinnies was elected to the College of Hundreds of Men in Stralsund in 1751, and then to the city council in 1753. From 1761 to 1764 he was an assessor and director of the City and Orphan Court. In 1764 he became a member of the city chamber. In 1778 he was elected mayor of the Hanseatic city , in 1782 he was elected district administrator of the estates. In 1799 he became a knight of the Swedish North Star Order .

He dedicated himself professionally to the administration of justice and administration as well as the promotion of the churches and schools in Stralsund and some foundations. He also cataloged the council library, which at that time contained 6,600 works and 3,000 dissertations and was later transferred to the Stralsund city archive . He also owned the largest and most important private library in the city. He wrote document books for the city of Stralsund and some of its monasteries, genealogical compilations on the Stralsund councilors and the West Pomeranian nobility as well as numerous smaller works on the history of Stralsund, Pomerania and Rügen, most of which were not printed. Most of his manuscripts are still in the manuscript collection of the Stralsund City Archives.

Dinnies died in his native town in 1801.

Works (selection)

Unprinted

  • News relating to the town council of Stralsund (Stralsund town archive, Hs 359 - 366, digitized volumes 1 and 2, digitalized volumes 3 to 8 )
  • Sundensis stemmas. Family tables and coats of arms of those families whose members have held the mayor or town hall of Stralsund (Stadtarchiv Stralsund, Hs 260a-b)
  • Diplomatarium civitatis Stralsundensis. Collection of the old documents in the archive of the city of Stralsund . Stralsund City Archives, Hs 407 (concept), 408 (fair copy)
  • Corpus juris opificiarii Stralsundensis. Collection of trade roles, etc. Stralsund city archive, Hs 302 (concept), 297 u. 298 (fair copy)
  • Diplomataries of the Stralsund monasteries and churches (Stralsund City Archives, Hs 286, 287, 289, 332, 401, 406, 426)
  • From the spiritual jurisdiction within the city of Stralsund (Stadtarchiv Stralsund, Hs 498)
  • News that in 1627 the imperial troops under the supreme command of the Duke of Friedland were moved into the Pomeranian Lands, billeted in the city of Stralsund, the tracts plowed to avert the same, and the siege of the reported city of Stralsund finally followed in 1628 concerning (Stralsund City Archives, Hs 257a-e, digital copy )
  • News concerning the legation delegated from the city of Stralsund to the peace congress in Osnabrügge 1645, 46 and 47 (Stralsund city archive, Hs 249a-c)
  • Genealogies of the princes of Rügen, the houses descended from them and the old Pomeranian and Rügen nobility . Stralsund City Archives, Hs 299-301 (concept), 293-296 (fair copy)
  • Diplomatarium quod diplomata Principum Rugianorum indigenarum complicetur (Stralsund City Archives, Hs. 333)

Printed

  • On the justice of coins and the coins of the city of Stralsund , Part 1 In: Gesterdings Pommersches Magazin , Part VI, pp. 2–42, 1779 digitized ; Part 2 In: Gesterdings Pommersches Museum , Vol. I, pp. 95–120, 1779 digitized ; Part 3 with a separate title: Directory of the coins minted by the city of Stralsund, as far as they are still available and known , In: Gadebusch, Pommerscheammlung , Theil II, pp. 17–67, 1786 digitized .
  • Some news concerning the number of inhabitants of the city of Stralsund in older and more recent times , In: Pommersches Museum , Vol. I, pp. 1-24, 1781 digitized .
  • News from the Brigittinerordens monastery, called Mariakron, located before the city of Stralsund , In: Pommerscheammlung , Vol. I, pp. 147–195, 1783 digitized .
  • From the bailiff in Stralsund and the former princely bailiffs there , In: ibid., Pp. 339–382 digitized .
  • Brief message from the former St. Anne's house and the current St. Annen and Brigitten monastery in Stralsund , In: Ibid., Vol. II, pp. 117-133, 1785 digitized .
  • Message from the spiritual foundations in Stralsund , In: Ibid., Pp. 229–309 digitized .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A list in Brandenburg (see list of literature), pp. 40–67.
personal data
SURNAME Dinnies, Johann Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, Mayor of Stralsund (1778–1801)
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1727
PLACE OF BIRTH Stralsund
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1801
Place of death Stralsund