Johann Christian Schmid
Johann Christian Schmid (* 9. March 1715 in Marienberg , † 21st October 1788 in Eisleben ) was a German electoral Saxon Bergkommissionsrat and mountain Vogt in Thuringia .
Life
He came from a mining family in the Erzgebirge mountain town of Marienberg , became the progenitor of a family of scholars and married Christiane Friderike († March 18, 1759 in Eisleben) , Christian Ferdinand Wappenhentsch , the only daughter of the mayor and bailiff of the mining town of Eisleben in the county of Mansfeld .
He took over the office of mountain bailiff in Thuringia and, as a mountain commissioner, became one of the highest mountain officials in the Electorate of Saxony . At the age of 70, he applied to resign from the position of mountain bailiff, which he held for Thuringia and the county of Mansfeld, which he was allowed to do. He was allowed to keep his official apartment in the mining office building in Eisleben until his death in 1788. In addition, Schmid had been a tenth in Sangerhausen and Bottendorf for many years . Heinrich Ulrich Erasmus von Hardenberg , the father of the early Romantic poet, Novalis, was one of his colleagues .
One of his sons died in 1765 at the age of 14. Further sons were the Thuringian mountain bailiff Ernst Rudolph Wilhelm Schmid (* 1753; † June 5, 1795 in Stolberg) and Carl Ferdinand Schmid (* February 26, 1750 in Eisleben; † April 1, 1809 in Wittenberg), professor of ethics and associate professor of natural and international law in Wittenberg and Professor Christian Heinrich Schmid in Gießen .
The senior mining official and chronicler Christian Wilhelm Friedrich Schmid was his nephew.
monument
The tomb for Johann Christian Schmid has been preserved on the Annenkirchplatz in Lutherstadt Eisleben, where the church of St. Annen used to be. It is an urn made of sandstone with garlands on a broken, fluted column with medallions wrapped in vine leaves. The tomb is a listed building.
literature
- Rudolf Mirsch: Family tree of the scholar family Schmid. In: Communications 43/44 of the Mansfeld Miners and Huts People Association. V., 1-2 / 2000.
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments of Lutherstadt Eisleben from 2012.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmid, Johann Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Mining Commissioner and Bergvogt in Thuringia |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 9, 1715 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marienberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 21, 1788 |
| Place of death | Eisleben |