Johann Christoph Marci

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Johann Christoph Marci, copper engraving by Christian Romstet , 1773, with memorial message by Christian Friedrich Franckenstein

Johann Christoph Marci (also: Marzi ; * August 6, 1614 in Leipzig ; † September 6, 1672 in Hirschfeld , Niederhessen ) was a German lawyer and Saxon politician.

Life

The son of the notary Christoph Marci from Neustadt in Saxony († September 19, 1618 in Leipzig) and his wife Anna († October 31, 1633 in Leipzig), the daughter of the Leipzig goldsmith Peter Cramer and his wife NN. Schilter, was entrusted to his godfather Johann Cramer for training after the early death of his father. He made sure that the young Johann Christoph got a private tutor at the age of four. After his uncle's death, he returned to his mother, who sent him to the Leipzig Nikolaischule and subsequently enabled him to study philosophical sciences at the University of Leipzig .

Here he obtained the lowest academic degree of a baccalaureus in 1630 , advanced to a master's degree in philosophy in 1634 and traveled to Holland , Denmark , Rostock and Hamburg in 1639 , where he continued his education at the universities there. 1644 he went to the University of Strasbourg , where he three years graduated in law and policy and on March 28, 1644 Doctor doctorate of rights. He then traveled to other cities and was tutor of some noble sons, with whom he also completed educational trips that also took him to Luxembourg, England and France.

In 1647 he returned to Leipzig, first became a trainee and in 1649 an assessor at the Leipzig Schöppenstuhl and gave private lectures at Leipzig University. In 1653, Duke Christian von Sachsen Merseburg appointed him court counselor. A year later he became assessor at the Leipzig court and in 1657 privy councilor and chancellor of Duke Christian von Sachsen-Merseburg. In 1661 he was released from his work at the Leipzig Schöppenstuhl and moved to Merseburg. But in 1666, Elector Johann Georg II of Saxony appointed him to the Saxon Electoral Council of Appeal; when he returned to Leipzig, he took over the position of senior at the Leipzig Schöppenstuhl.

Marci, who had lost his extensive library and possessions in the great fire in Merseburg in 1662, suffered a heart attack on his return from a cure in Bad Schwalbach , which was associated with one-sided paralysis. Therefore he was brought to Hirschfeld to receive medical care. There he suffered an epileptic fit and died. His body was transferred to his hometown, where he was buried on September 20, 1672 in the Paulinerkirche in Leipzig .

family

Sabina Elisabetha Marci, b. Leyser, with a memorial from her son-in-law Johann Caspar Pflaume

Marci had married Sabina Elisabetha on September 19, 1648 (* December 6, 1629 in Leipzig; † June 3, 1673 ibid), the daughter of the theologian Polycarp Leyser II . The marriage resulted in five sons and six daughters, of whom two sons and two daughters died young before their father. It is known about the children

  • Polycarp Marci I. († young)
  • Christian Benedikt Marci († young)
  • Sabina Elisabeth Marci (* 1650 † 1667)
  • Johanna Regina Marci († young)
  • Anna Maria Marci married 1671 with Johann Caspar Pflaume
  • Polycarp Marci II. Lawyer
  • Dorothea Marci
  • Johann Christian Marci
  • Christiana Sophia Marci
  • Sabina Elisabeth Marci
  • Johann Christoph Marci

literature

  • Johann Ulrich Mayer: Godly consultant: Who was educated by his glorious Christian life ... Mr. Joh. Christoph Marci, well-known IureConsultus ... But afterwards / When he ... in Hirschfeld the 6th of September elapsed 1672th year ... his blissful journey home ... held / and the 20th of the same Month whose deceased corpse was here in the Pauliner Church in his little rest room ... at his last honorary service ... Leipzig 1673. In: Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons and personal documents for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes . Vol. 9, p. 9, R 8016
  • Polykarp Marci: Klage-Wortte / with which Des Magnifici, Hoch-aedlen / Vest- and Hochgelahrten Hn. Johann-Christoff Marzi / Chur- and Fuerstl. Saechs. Secret and Appellation Raths and Churfl. Saechs. Schoeppenstuels and Loeblichen Ober-Hof -gericht zu Leipsig / well-deserved Senioris and Assessoris ... Toedlichen entry sighed. Leipzig: Wittigau 1672
  • Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : General scholarly lexicon . (M – R) ( GoogleBooks )
  • Marci, Johann Christoph. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 19, Leipzig 1739, column 1227.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ from Erkelenz in the Duchy of Jülich
  2. ↑ or Catharina, the daughter of the Leipzig furrier Hans Hertel?
  3. ^ Was a licentiate in theology, pastor in Zeitz, then court preacher in Altenburg † 1624
  4. ↑ Georg Lehmann: The Hindan attachment of the temporal / and appreciation of the eternal: Bey Christlicher Volckreicher body burial of… Fr. Sabinen Elisabeth / gebohrner Leyserin / Des… Mr. Johann Christoph Marci… widows left behind… Leipzig 1674. In: Fritz Roth : Restlose Evaluations of funeral sermons and personal documents for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes . Vol. 1, p. 20, R 3028
personal data
SURNAME Marci, Johann Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marzi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and Saxon politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1614
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1672
Place of death Hirschfeld , Lower Hesse