Johann Christoph Zeumer

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Johann Christoph Zeumer (born September 13, 1685 in Langensalza ; † January 3, 1747 in Zeitz ) was a German civil servant. He was "His Royal. Majesty in Pohlen and Churfürstl. Highness. to Saxony Hof-Rath, Canonicus and Stiffts-Cantzler to Naumburg and Zeitz ” .

Life

Johann Christoph Zeumer was born in Langensalza as the son of the merchant and chief treasurer Christian Zeumer († September 4, 1696) and Martha Maria, b. Auerbach († September 29, 1696), born. His educational path led him to the Fürstenschule Schulpforta and in 1704 he was matriculated at the University of Jena , in 1708 he published his dissertation and obtained his doctorate . He became district administrator of Tennstedt , later court counselor , canon and chancellor of the collegiate government of Naumburg and Zeitz.

Around 1716 he married Charlotte Friederike geb. Meurer (1696–1721), the daughter from the first marriage of Ernst Friedrich Meurer (1660–1722) with Johanna Chatarina born. Albert († October 26, 1705), the royal Polish and electoral Saxon councilor and senior bailiff of the Thuringian district in Tennstedt. From this marriage the son Johann Friedrich Zeumer (1717–1774) and the daughters Johanna Henrietta and Elisabeth Charlotte († September 14, 1740 Zeitz) emerged. The father-in-law Ernst Friedrich Meurer was also a brother-in-law for Johann Christoph Zeumer, since Meurer had married Zeumer's sister Anna Maria Zeumer († 1749) in his second marriage.

Zeumer was co-leaned on the manors Vehra and Henschleben , which were owned by his father-in-law Ernst Friedrich Meurer. In 1724 he bought the Niederauerbach manor in Vogtland from the widowed Appelation Councilor Anna Elisabeth Conradi, with the brass works privileged by the elector and the hammer mill in Ellefeld . In 1728 Johann Christoph Seeling became a partner and co-owner of Zeumers Hammerwerk Ellefeld. In the city of Freiberg “in 1734 Dr. Johann Christoph Zeumer and his children, Johann Friedrich and Elisabeth Charlotte, house and garden at the barefoot monastery with chassis and 220 bushels field as well as all associated buildings ” . When the manors Burgheßler and Burkersroda were in sequestration and were lost to the von Heßler family through foreclosure auction , Burgheßler was awarded to the monastery chancellor Johann Christoph Zeumer in 1746. He bought the estate for 48,300 Reichstalers .

The Chancellor Johann Christoph Zeumer campaigned for many charitable projects with his offices and the associated influence during his lifetime. As a distant relative of the Klopstock family , he took on the role of mediator for the admission of the later poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock to the Princely School in Schulpforta and campaigned for the preservation of a vacancy for Klopstock's training.

estate

Since Zeumer's daughter Elisabeth Charlotte had already died in 1740, according to his legacy of December 25, 1746, after his death on January 3, 1747, the entire property of Johann Christoph Zeumer passed to his only son, Hofrat Johann Friedrich Zeumer. Johann Christoph Zeumer had also carried out extensive monetary transactions with his fortune, from whose investment income he made large donations available to poor houses and for poor students. These uses of his capital with the interest income and accounts were still made in 1816, 70 years after his death. Several grateful scholarship holders later devoted dissertations to him. With the award of scholarships for “poor students at the universities of Leipzig and Wittenberg” , under the condition of administration by the Zeitz Procuratorate and the collatur by the Zeitz Consistory, he paved the way for talented young people and financed their academic training.

further reading

  • Renate Schönfuß: The legacy of the Elector of Saxon Court and Justice Councilor Johann Friedrich Zeumer (1717–1774). In: Altenburger Geschichts- und Hauskalender 2015. E. Reinhold Verlag, Altenburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-95755-004-0 .
  • Renate Schönfuß-Krause: The legacy of the Elector of Saxon Court and Justice Councilor Johann Friedrich Zeumer (1717–1774) - The fall of a family property at the beginning of a new era. In: Family and History. Volume IX, Volume 25, Issue 1 January – March 2016, Verlag Degener & Co., Insingen near Rothenburg ob der Tauber.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Renate Schönfuß: The legacy of the Elector of the Saxon Court and Justice Councilor Johann Friedrich Zeumer (1717–1774) . In: Altenburg History and House Calendar 2015 . E. Reinhold Verlag, Altenburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-95755-004-0 .
  2. ^ Johann Heinrich Zedler: Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . tape 62 . Johann Heinrich Zedler, Halle / Leipzig 1749, Sp. 382 .
  3. ^ Magdeburg, Archives of the Evangelical Church of the Ecclesiastical Province of Saxony, Zeitz, St. Michael, Death Register 1738–1761, September, p. 72.
  4. ↑ State Archives Chemnitz, holdings 2.3.1. Sign. 1724/266 Purchase contract between AE Conradi and Dr. Joh. Chr. Zeumer.
  5. ↑ State Archives Chemnitz, holdings 2.3.1. Signed 1728/289 purchase contract between Joh. Chr. Zeumer and Johann Chr. Seeling.
  6. ↑ State Main Archives Saxony-Anhalt , Department Magdeburg, Issue 44, No. 1274.
  7. ↑ a b Collection of laws for the Kingdom of Saxony from 1828 . Hofbuchdruckerei EE Meinhold, Dresden, OCLC 11078612 , p.  508 .
  8. ↑ State Archives Chemnitz, inventory 30733, landlord. Jurisdiction, Niederauerbach, 2.4.2. Estate matters, 1835/614.
personal data
SURNAME Zeumer, Johann Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saxon Councilor, Canonicus and Stifts-Canzler
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1685
PLACE OF BIRTH Langensalza
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1747
Place of death Time