Johann Christoph Augspurg

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Johann Christoph Augspurg ( baptized June 14, 1712 in Hanover ; † September 22, 1771 there ) was a German legal scholar .

Life

Johann Christoph Augspurg was a grandson of the Schöppenstedter superintendent Johann Augspurg and a son of the rector of the high school in Hanover Andreas Christoph Augspurg and Dorothea Greve. Due to the early death of his father and the second marriage of his mother on August 15, 1726, the chamber clerk Johann Heinrich Redecker became his stepfather. Augspurg's brothers were Levin Adam Augspurg († 1740), pastor of Hattorf, and Joh. August Augspurg († 1763), pastor of Lohe.

Johann Christoph Augspurg enrolled at the University of Helmstedt in 1731 . In 1737, the printing company Nikolaus Förster Erben in Hanover published his legal dissertation De Veris Fundamentis Ac Gradibus, Existimationis Civilis ...

At Easter 1742 Augspurg took over the duties of extraordinary office secretary in Hanover. On February 12, 1748 he was appointed chamber secretary. On February 22, 1748 he married the widow of Heinrich Burchard Stegemann , Anna Dorothea Heumann (baptized July 12, 1728 in Hanover; † February 16, 1791 ibid) in Hanover. The marriage resulted in 11 children, including Johann Dietrich Andreas Augspurg (* 1750), clerk of Hünefeld, and August Wilhelm Augspurg (born August 18, 1752, † 1843), bailiff at Ottersberg and Canon of Hameln.

In addition to his job as chamber secretary, Augspurg took care of the education of Adolph Knigge from 1766 onwards .

Fonts

  • De Veris Fundamentis Ac Gradibus, Existimationis Civilis: Ceu Characterum In Societate Civili Efficacium, Disquisitio Solida ... Atque Methodo Scientifica Reddita / Auctore Joh. Christoph. Augspurg , HANNOVERÆ, Prostat apud NICOLAI FÖRSTERI & FILII, Hæredes, M DCC XXXVII; Digital copy of the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library (SLUB)
  • Iura De Dominio, Pactisque Dominium Acquisitivis, Ceu Ad Trasferendum Dominium Habilibus; Ex Certis Ac Evidentibus Principiis Iuris Tam Naturalis, Quam Civilis Romani, Demonstrata: Casibus Pariter Authenticis, Ac Iuris Patrii Consensu, Comprobata / Auctore Joh. Christ. Augspurg ... Accessere Literae Praefantes Christiani Wolfii Nec Non Dissertatio Prooemialis Auctoris De Usu Et Adplicatione Egregia Methodi Demonstrativae In Scientia Iuris , Marburgi Cattorum: Philipp Kasimir Müller [1740]; Digital copy of the SLUB

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Joachim Lampe: Aristocracy, court nobility and state patriciate in Kurhannover: Die Lebenskreise d. higher officials at d. Kurhannoverschen Zentral- u. Court authorities 1714 - 1760 (= publications of the historical commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen , vol. 24) (= studies on the history of the estates of Lower Saxony , volume 2), volume 2: lists of officials and pedigrees , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1963, p. 20, 78 -79; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ↑ Necessary Supplements to the Great Complete Universal Lexicon of All Sciences and Arts, Which Up to now have been invented and improved by human understanding and wit , Volume 2: Ao - Barb. , Leipzig: [Zedler], 1751, column 883; Digitized via Google books
  3. ↑ Information from VD 18
  4. ↑ Günter Jung, Michael Rüppel (Ed.): Adolph Freiherr Knigge. Correspondence with contemporaries. 1765-1796 , 1st edition, Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8353-1639-3 and ISBN 3-8353-1639-7 , pp. 10, 106, 401; limited preview in Google Book search
personal data
SURNAME Augspurg, Johann Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, Elector of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and Royal British Chancellery and Chamber Secretary, educator of Adolph Knigge
DATE OF BIRTH baptized June 14, 1712
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1771
Place of death Hanover