Johann Christian Bacmeister
Johann Christian Bacmeister (born October 26, 1662 in Celle ; † April 21, 1717 ibid) was a German legal scholar and office director of Celle.
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Bacmeister was the son of the court and chancellery councilor Georg Michael Bacmeister (1625–1678) and Ilse Dorothea Engelbrecht (1662–1706) and great-grandson of court preacher Lucas Bacmeister the Elder and brother of the general superintendent of the General Diocese of Bremen-Verden Lucas Bacmeister . The descendants of the Bacmeister family of theologians and lawyers studied law in Osterode am Harz and Bremen from 1681, initially at the University of Jena and in 1685 switched to the University of Tübingen , where his cousin, the acting lawyer of the Duchy of Württemberg and later the Württemberg court counselor, Johann von Bacmeister was enrolled. Here Johann Christian received his doctorate in 1686 with his dissertation De iudicio diffamatorio and was then taken on as a respondent at the university and as a lawyer at the Tübingen regional court .
A few years later, Bacmeister went on a study trip through France and the Netherlands. After his return to Germany, he took a position as court master first at the University of Frankfurt an der Oder and then at the University of Helmstedt .
It was here that the Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, Georg Wilhelm, became aware of Bacmeister and appointed him to the court chancellery of Celle, where Bacmeister's father had already worked as court and chancellery advisor. After the Duke's death in 1705 and the associated unification of the Principality of Lüneburg with the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , Bacmeister was appointed by his successor and later King of Great Britain Georg Ludwig as the first office director of Celle after the amalgamation and was promoted to court councilor . As part of this activity, he played a key role in the reorientation of Celles to become a city of civil servants and lawyers, as well as in the development of the new administrative structures, the court of appeal and other public institutions that had arisen in the course of the unification to compensate for the loss of the status as a residential city .
Since then, members and descendants of his family have been serving the duchy as court, chancellery or appellate councilors, later served in the King's German Legion or even became ministers.
family
Johann Christian Bacmeister was married to Hedwig Elisabeth Nolbeck (1678-1720), who bore him eight children. One daughter was Dorothea Sophie Charlotte Bacmeister, who married the firm's director Johann Friedrich von Borries .
One of his grandchildren was the historian Johann Vollrath Bacmeister , one of his great-grandchildren the diplomat Basilius von Ramdohr . His other descendants include the later Hanoverian Minister Georg Heinrich Bacmeister , his grandson and pulmonologist Adolf Bacmeister and Charlotte Luise Bacmeister (1780–1845), who married the canon law scholar and Jacobin Georg Wilhelm Böhmer .
Works (selection)
- Positiones Inaugurales De Iudicio Diffamatorio , Tubingae: Reisius, 1686
Literature and Sources
- Filippo Ranieri (Ed.): Biographical Repertory of Jurists in the Old Kingdom: 16th - 18th Century . Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann 1987
- Bacmeister, Johann Christian Cantzler-Director. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Supplement 2, Leipzig 1751, column 1180 f.,
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Bacmeister, Johann Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German administrative lawyer and office director in Celle |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 26, 1662 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Celle |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 21, 1717 |
| Place of death | Celle |