Johann August Otto Gehler
Johann August Otto Gehler (born June 16, 1762 in Leipzig ; † August 11, 1822 there ) was a German lawyer and local politician .
Life
Johann August Otto Gehler was the son of the Leipzig doctor and university professor Johann Carl Gehler (1732–1796) and his wife Christiane Sophie, who came from the Leipzig family of scholars Mencke. The Leipzig physicist Johann Samuel Traugott Gehler (1751–1795) was his uncle.
Prepared by private tutors, Johann August Otto Gehler studied law at the universities in Leipzig and Göttingen from 1778 , obtained his master's degree in 1785 and received his doctorate in law the following year. In the following years, Gehler worked legally at the Leipzig Schöppenstuhl , where he was elected assessor in 1803.
After being elected to the city council in 1792, he held several important functions for the city of Leipzig. In 1802 he became city judge, 1806 city architect and in 1811 criminal judge. In this function he was involved in the trial of the murderer Johann Christian Woyzeck (1780-1824) from 1821 , but he did not live to see his execution.
Johann August Otto Gehler was very interested in art. He owned a large collection of hand drawings and etchings from the 15th to the beginning of the 19th century, which later came to the museum on Augustusplatz via his daughter and the Leipziger Kunstverein . There were 1295 exhibits with an estimated value of 3000 thalers . He himself trained as a painter privately with Adam Friedrich Oeser (1717–1799) and Veit Hanns Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1764–1841).
In 1800 Gehler was elected a member of the Gewandhaus management , where he held the post of secretary for fifteen years. In the city council he advocated a permanent ensemble for the Leipzig theater , which did not exist until 1817, and developed a budget for it. As one of two theater deputies in the city, he accompanied the renovation and expansion of the house in the same year. In 1818 he was a founding member of the Natural Research Society .
In 1791 he married Emilie Duvigneau, the daughter of a Leipzig merchant and head of the Reformed community . The couple had a daughter, Emilie, who later married the lawyer Heinrich Dörrin. Two months after his 60th birthday, Johann August Otto Gehler died of a stroke .
For his services he was appointed royal Saxon court advisor in 1811.
literature
- Death . In: Allgemeine Literaturzeitung from 1822 . Volume 3, p. 21 ( online )
- Anna-Barbara Schmidt: And by the way, Gewandhaus director. In: Gewandhausmagazin No. 99, 2018, pp. 52/53
Web links
- Gehler, Johann August Otto. In: Leipzig biography. Retrieved June 5, 2018 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Peter Schwarz: The millennial Leipzig . From the end of the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century. 1st edition. tape 2 . Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3-945027-05-9 , pp. 232 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gehler, Johann August Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and local politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 16, 1762 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 11, 1822 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |