Johann Carl Cirsovius

Johann Carl Cirsovius (born February 9, 1745 in Glückstadt ; † March 1, 1813 in Bramstedt ) was a German lawyer and founder of the Kieler Spar- und Leihkasse .

Live and act

Johann Carl Cirsovius came from the Cirsovius family . He was the son of the lawyer Leopold August Cirsovius and his first wife Dorothea Friederike, née Stammetz. As a child, he moved with his family to Kiel , where he received private lessons. From autumn 1761 he studied law at the University of Kiel. In spring 1764 he went to the theological faculty of the University of Göttingen. The time and place of his exams are not documented, as are the first professional stages.

Cirsovius must have worked as a lawyer early on. The grand ducal government, which had the regular right of nomination, appointed him in October 1770 as a district court notary. The Royal Government also agreed the following month. The regional court responsible only for Holstein held meetings alternately in Kiel and Rendsburg. In 1779, after the whole of Holstein had passed into royal possession, it moved its headquarters to Glückstadt . Cirsovius probably still lived in Kiel anyway.

In 1781 Cirsovius succeeded his sick cousin Adolf Friedrich Gramkow as treasurer of the Schleswig-Holstein knighthood . In 1791 he was elected their state syndic. His father had already taken over this position. Since this conflicted with his work as a regional court notary, he ended it. Instead, he concentrated on the state syndicate and also worked as a legal advisor for the goods districts of Kiel and Oldenburg.

As a founding member of the “Society of Voluntary Friends of the Poor” in Kiel, Cirsovius made a special contribution. In 1796 he suggested setting up a savings and loan fund. This should be open in particular to the lower classes of the population and alleviate their poverty. He himself took over the chairmanship of an immediately created savings bank commission. He brought in an inherited city bond of 1000 Reichstaler, which was supposed to guarantee the security of the savings. The savings bank opened on July 1, 1796 with Cirsovius as a volunteer cashier. In March 1799, a loan office was added, which made a full-time employee necessary.

In 1801, Cirsovius left the savings and loan bank as the last member of the former savings bank commission. In 1802 he donated a legacy for “worthy maids”. In 1803 he was re-elected to the Sparkasse commission. A year later he was obviously angry about the direction of the management under Pastor Gerhard Holst, which he considered unstable. So he asked to repay the obligation he had made. From 1804 he got increasing health problems and therefore only rarely attended meetings of the Society of Voluntary Poor Friends. In 1806 he separated from the state syndicate and left the savings bank commission the following year.

In 1809 Cirsovius moved his residence to Plön . In 1810, together with the Kiel lawyer Meyer Isaac Schiff, he founded a prize for the best drawing student at the Kiel Free School. In the last year of his life he lived with his son Leopold August in Bramstedt, who worked there as a parish bailiff.

Cirsovius was appointed to the chancellery in 1773.

family

On September 10, 1772, Cirsovius married Margaretha Christina Paustian († July 14, 1773) in Kiel. Her father Jacob Bernhard Paustian (1768–1796) worked as a clerk in Trittau. From this marriage a son was born.

In his second marriage, Cirsovius married Juliane Christine von Derwiese († April 16, 1804) in July 1774. Her father Johann Adolph von Derwiese worked as a grand ducal budget adviser and was a member of the law firm in Kiel from 1763 to 1773. Cirsovius' second marriage had a daughter and ten sons. One of his grandchildren was the organist Leopold Iwan Cirsovius .

literature

• Leo Beckmann: Cirsovius, Johann Carl . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , pages 71-73.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Leo Beckmann: Cirsovius, Johann Carl . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , page 72.
2. ↑ Leo Beckmann: Cirsovius, Johann Carl . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , pages 72-73.
3. ↑ Leo Beckmann: Cirsovius, Johann Carl . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , page 73.
4. ^ ^{A b} Leo Beckmann: Cirsovius, Johann Carl . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , page 71.