Burchard Christian von Behr

Burchard Christian von Behr (born July 17, 1714 in Stellichte ; † December 26, 1771 ) was a senior appellate judge in Celle, minister of the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and curator of the Georg-August University of Göttingen .

Life

Burchard Christian von Behr was the son of the Lüneburg district administrator and heir of Stellichte Johann Georg von Behr († 1735). From 1730 he attended the Knight Academy Lüneburg . From 1733 he studied law, first in Gießen and from spring 1735 in Göttingen, where he received his doctorate in 1738. jur. received his doctorate. In the early days of Göttingen University, he was already noticed by his argumentative assertiveness and was one of the outstanding personalities of the Göttingen student body in the founding phase of the university. A rencontre , i.e. a spontaneous duel without a prior appointment, with his friend Hans Hinrich von der Betten in the summer of 1735 is passed down in the university files. When the German Society of Göttingen was founded in 1739 as a subsidiary of the German Society in Leipzig, he became its first senior and retained the honorary position of the Society's chief elder until his death . Behr went into the Hanoverian civil service, first as court judge, later court counselor in Hanover. As a senior appellate judge, he worked at the Hanover Higher Appeal Court in Celle. 1745 was appointed Reichshofrat. In 1751 he was elected honorary member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . From 1750 he gained diplomatic experience as a comitial envoy of the Electorate to the Perpetual Reichstag in Regensburg . In 1755 he became a member of the Secret Council in Hanover as a minister and from 1762 a minister at the German Chancellery in London. In 1770 he returned to Hanover as President of the Chamber and was appointed curator of the Georg-August University in December 1770, succeeding Gerlach Adolph von Münchhausen , but only held this office for one year until his death.

Burchard Christian von Behr was not married and had two daughters.

literature

Johann Stephan Pütter : Attempt of an academic scholarly history from the Georg Augustus University in Göttingen. Vandenhoeck, Göttingen 1765, p. 271 ff. (Books.google.de)
Emil Franz Rössler: The founding of the University of Göttingen . Göttingen 1855, p. 12 ( digitized version )

Web links

Genealogy in Prussia & Lippe

Individual evidence

^ Enrolled on May 3, 1735 ex ac. Giessen
^ Stefan Brüdermann: Göttingen Students and Academic Jurisdiction in the 18th Century , Göttingen 1990, p. 195; With regard to the status of both parties, the matter was only punished with a fine.
↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 34.

personal data
SURNAME	Behr, Burchard Christian von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Higher Appeal Judge in Celle
DATE OF BIRTH	July 17, 1714
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stellicht
DATE OF DEATH	December 26, 1771

[1] Enrolled on May 3, 1735 ex ac. Giessen

[2] Stefan Brüdermann: Göttingen Students and Academic Jurisdiction in the 18th Century , Göttingen 1990, p. 195; With regard to the status of both parties, the matter was only punished with a fine.

[3] Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 34.