Johann Christian von Arnim

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Johann Christian von Arnim (* 1640 ; † January 18, 1695 ) was an electoral Saxon chamberlain , councilor and court judge in Wittenberg as well as the manor owner and was the progenitor of the Walda line of his noble family.

Life

Johann Christian von Arnim came from the main line Zichow of the widespread Uckermark noble family of the von Arnim . He was born as the eldest son of the electoral chamberlain, secretary and war councilor and lieutenant general Wolff Christoph von Arnim and Katharina Dorothea von Hoym. The later chamberlain Johann Georg von Arnim was his brother.

Together with his two younger brothers Johann Georg and Wolf Christoph von Arnim, he exchanged at the request of Elector Johann Georg III. of Saxony on March 11, 1689 the inherited paternal manor Pretzsch (Elbe) against the manor Walda near Großenhain and another two chamber estates. Already at that time it was determined that Johann Christian von Arnim should receive Walda. He took up residence with his family in Walda. It is known from the years 1683 to 1693 that he kept a diary.

He was part of a loan at Planitz Castle , which his younger brother Johann Georg von Arnim had received in 1689.

He was married twice. First he married Dorothea Elisabeth, née von Meusbach, who died on February 5, 1670 without leaving any children. In May 1673 he married Elisabeth Charlotte, nee Freiin von Kanne, in his second marriage. This marriage resulted in two sons and a daughter who were still minors when their father died in 1695.

literature

  • Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Uradeligen houses , Gotha, Perthes, 1903, p. 38.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Allgemeine Anzeiger und Nationalzeitung der Deutschen , No. 50 of February 20, 1830, p. 639
  2. ^ Certificate in the archive of the Kriebstein manor
  3. ^ General historical lexicon, Volume 5 , 1740, p. 71
  4. ↑ An attempt at a Ucker-Märckischen nobility history, Volume 1 , 1744, p. 114.
personal data
SURNAME Arnim, Johann Christian von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Electoral Saxon chamberlain, court judge and manor owner
DATE OF BIRTH 1640
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1695