Johann Christian Müller

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the German musician see Johann Christian Müller (musician) .

Johann Christian Müller (full name: Johann Christian Gottlieb Müller ; born January 6, 1776 in Merseburg , † March 7, 1836 in Dresden ) was a German lawyer and administrative officer and the first minister of culture of the Kingdom of Saxony .

Life

After attending the cathedral school in Merseburg , he was enrolled at the University of Leipzig in 1793 , where he a. a. studied law with Christian Gottlieb Haubold , Christian Gottlob Biener , Johann Gottfried Sammet and Christian Gottlob Einert and graduated after three years. Then he was first for two years assessor in the office of Merseburg . 1804 received a position as chamber secretary of the electoral Saxon monastery of Merseburg Chamber of Commerce. From November 1809 he headed the judicial office of the Lützen office , to which Zwenkau also belonged. In 1814 the city of Leipzig was given the task of revising the treasury. After the partition of Saxony in 1815, when a large part of his former area of ​​work, namely the Lützen office, fell to Prussia, he got the post of governor in the 3rd district ( Grimma ) of the Leipzig district through the mediation of Minister Ernst Friedrich Karl Emil von Werthern . He turned down the call of the Prussian government to head the board of directors of the Sangerhausen City and Regional Court despite higher remuneration. In 1818 he became court and judiciary in Dresden. Since May 1821 he was a member of the commission for penal institutions and from March 1827 he was given a council position in the vicariate court. In 1824 he was also active in the commission that was supposed to mediate in the association of the clubs for the blind in Dresden (including the Flemming- Steckling Institute for the blind). During the unrest in 1830 he was appointed to the commission for the restoration of public peace and order and sent to Leipzig to negotiate a settlement, which he succeeded. For this he received the honorary citizenship of the city of Leipzig and an honorary doctorate from the law faculty of the University of Leipzig. On the other hand, he refused the position as a government official in Leipzig and was instead appointed director of the 3rd department of the state government in Dresden. Due to his services as a civil servant, he was appointed first Minister of State for Cult and Public Education on December 1, 1831. He held the office until his death.

Awards

• 1815: Honorary citizenship of the city of Zwenkau
• 1826: Knight's Cross of the Order of Civil Merit of the Kingdom of Saxony
• Order of the Red Eagle III. 1st class of the Kingdom of Prussia
• 1830: Honorary citizenship of the city of Leipzig
• 1835: Commander's Cross of the Order of Civil Merit of the Kingdom of Saxony

family

His father was a property owner in Merseburg. On April 15, 1809 he married Marianne von Przygrodzka, with whom he had three daughters and two sons. One of the last two also studied law, the other became an officer in the Saxon Army.

literature

• Hans-Martin Moderow: Elementary school between state and church. The example of Saxony in the 18th and 19th centuries . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Weimar 2007. ( limited view in the Google book search)
• Friedrich August Schmidt (Ed.) New Nekrolog der Deutschen . Volume 14, 1836, pp. 241–246. ( Full text in google book search)

Web links

• Literature by and about Johann Christian Müller in the Saxon Bibliography

Remarks

1. ↑ The Chief Consistory President Karl Gustav Adolf Gruner (1778–1831) was actually intended for the ministerial post. However, he died shortly before. See Moderow, elementary school between state and church, p. 98.