Johann Christian Koppe

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Johann Christian Koppe, contemporary oil painting, Rostock University
Koppes gravestone in the old cemetery in Parchim
Sign of the St. John's Lodge

Johann Christian Koppe (born August 3, 1757 in Rostock ; † November 8, 1827 in Parchim ) was a German lawyer and university librarian.

Life

Koppe was the son of the Rostock bookseller and publisher ( Koppensche Buchhandlung ) Johann Christian (Sigismund) Koppe (1714–1793). He studied law at the University of Rostock and from 1777–1779 at the University of Göttingen . In 1779 he began his professional career as President at the Finance Court in Rostock and was admitted to the bar at all Rostock courts in 1782. From 1784 to 1789 Koppen was secretary at the University of Rostock. 1786, he was at the University of Bützow Dr. jur. PhD. From 1789 Koppe became second university librarian in Rostock and at the same time private lecturer at the university. He said goodbye in 1821 for health reasons.

He first spent his old age in Goldberg . There he also dealt with the Dobbertin Monastery from its foundation until the 600th anniversary celebrations on Benedict's Day in 1822. On October 23, 1826, Dr. Head to Parchim . What the reason is is not known. As a legal writer, Rostock had the very best conditions for his research work. But the Supreme Court was also opened in Parchim in 1818. Christian von Nettelbladt was the first councilor of appeals there . As the first lodge master, he founded the Masonic lodge , the Johannisloge Friderica Ludovica zur Treue , in Parchim in 1818 , of which Dr. Johann Christian Koppe was. The sign of the Masonic Lodge is also on the base of his gravestone.

His numerous obituaries, in Parchim to the genealogist Friedrich Johann Christoph Cleemann and to Prof. Wehnert, are particularly valuable for family history research .

Koppe died on November 8th, 1827 in Parchim and was buried there in the old cemetery, which was converted into a park. According to an advertisement in the Parchimschen Zeitung on November 13, 1827, the deceased left a son-in-law alongside his widow and children. The ad reads: On the 8th of the day. M., 9 o'clock in the morning, the life of our beloved husband, father and father-in-law, the wieland doctor Johann Christian Koppe, former university librarian and the Grand Ducal Prokonotait zu Rostock, unexpectedly ended - after he had been living since August 3rd. J. had reached his seventieth life: year. This advertisement is dedicated to all relatives and friends of the deceased the bereaved widow, children and son-in-law. Parchim, November 10th 1827. On the base of the grave stone inscription is only dimly discernible: THE BRAVEN SPOUSE AND FATHER HIS Dr. Johann Christian Koppe, b. to Rostock on Aug. 1757, died to Parchim on Novbr. 1827. The mark of the Freemasons can be seen on one side.

Memberships

  • Honorary member of the German Society in Helmstedt (1790)
  • Learned society for the benefit of the sciences and arts in Frankfurt (Oder)

Writings and editorships

  • The Entertainer at the Warne , Journal (publisher), 1786
  • Attempt to criticize the Ilgenersche Gesellschaft , 1779, (published anonymously)
  • Treatises on the performances of the Herzoglich Mecklenburg-Strelitzschen Schauspiel-Gesellschaft , 1780
  • Sunday life in Doberan , 1806
  • A joke can become serious (comedy)
  • Now living, learned Mecklenburg , 1783/84 ( digitized copy of the New York Public Library in the Internet Archive )
  • Rostock monthly , 1791
  • Lexicon of legal writers now living in Germany , 1793
  • Scientific yearbook of the Duchies of Mecklenburg together with an intelligence sheet , 1808
  • Mecklenburg's writers from the earliest times until now , 1816
  • D. Adolf Dieterich Weber, wayl. Grand Duke. Mecklenb. Heavy. Vice-Director of the Consistory , Rostock 1818. urn : nbn: de: gbv: 9-g-4881071 (digitized in the digital library Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
  • Handbook of German Literature since the Middle of the 18th Century , 1823

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 5290 .

Web links

Commons : Johann Christian Koppe  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Johann Christian Koppe  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A Johann Christian or Johann Christoph Koppe became councilor in 1757 and mayor of Rostock in 1788. Whether he was the librarian's father or an uncle cannot be inferred with sufficient clarity from the various secondary sources .
  2. ↑ See the entries for the matriculations of Johann Christian Koppe in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ^ Johann Christian Koppe: The Jubilee of the Dobbertin Monastery in 1822. In: Güstrowsches non-profit weekly newspaper. Guestrow April 13, 1822.
  4. ↑ To the Parchimschen Zeitung: History of the Parchimschen newspapers: Parchimer Zeitung united with Norddeutsche Post, 1818–1936 , Verlag Parchimer Verl.- u. Buchdr.-Ges., 1936.
  5. ↑ In terms of age, the lawyer Adolf (Georg) Koppe (born February 28, 1797 in Rostock), enrolled in Rostock in 1817, counted as "Studiosus" in his household in 1819 , but not explicitly mentioned as a son, a son or nephew of Johann Christian Koppe.
personal data
SURNAME Koppe, Johann Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and university librarian
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1757
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1827
Place of death Parchim