Johann David von Reichenbach

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Johann David von Reichenbach (born November 22, 1732 in Greifswald ; † February 21, 1807 in Stralsund ) was a chronicler, scientist, enlightener and reformer who worked in Swedish Pomerania . He was the chief financial officer in Swedish Pomerania.

Life

Johann David Reichenbach was a son of Christian Reichenbach, collector (tax collector) in the Greifswald district, and his wife Ilsabe. He studied from 1744 to 1749 at the University of Greifswald . In 1749 he wrote a pamphlet against a dissertation by the professor of theology, Augustin von Balthasar , who had dealt with marriage in brotherhood up to the third or fourth degree. Reichenbach had the disputation printed before the usual censorship in the faculty was completed and published the title page without a censorship note. The rector then had the disputation forbidden and the printed matter confiscated. Reichenbach was charged with meddling in theological disputes. He was accused of contradicting the teachings of Luther and the opinion of the Greifswalder Consistory . Other charges were insulting high-ranking personalities and forging documents. During the judicial investigation, the printer had claimed that the font had the dean's imprimatur , which the dean denied. Reichenbach was able to refute the indictment on all counts, among other things because he was able to prove that the dean's seal could not be found for a long time and that other writings had therefore already been published without the faculty seal. The university's chancellor, an office of the governor general of Swedish Pomerania , issued a reprimand to the university. This was obliged to return the disputation and to pay a fine of 200 Reichstalern . The university filed a complaint, but it was dragged off by offices in Wismar. In 1754 the file was closed without result.

Reichenbach defended a disputation around Easter 1750, but the disputes with the university prevented an academic career in Greifswald. In 1751 he went to Stockholm , where he initially worked as a tutor for Anders Johan von Höpken before he entered the Swedish civil service. For several years he worked as a clerk in the Stockholm Board of Commerce. On April 30, 1759, he and his brother Franz Heinrich were raised to the nobility by the emperor in Vienna. On May 21, 1759 he was appointed royal license inspector and chamberlain. As president, he was in charge of the licensing courts, which collected the various taxes and duties, and was in charge of the finances of Swedish Pomerania. In 1772 he received the title of chamber councilor . In 1792 he was appointed royal castle captain with a seat and vote in the Swedish Pomeranian government. In the same year he received the North Star Order . In 1795 he was released from his service.

In his patriotic contributions he dealt with contemporary phenomena in the judiciary, administration, school system and especially science at the University of Greifswald, which he regarded as grievances. The latter brought him a complaint from this university to the Swedish governor-general, Prince Hessenstein, and was discussed in pamphlets. Reichenbach then partially withdrew his accusations.

Reichenbach brought together a very extensive collection of paintings, which was divided into different collections after his death and that of his wife. He donated a medal for ambitious students to the Stralsund grammar school in the Dominican monastery of St. Katharinen .

family

Johann David Reichenbach was married to Eva Merthen . She died in 1811.

Works

  • Patriotic contributions to the knowledge and acceptance of the Swedish Pomerania , 8 booklets, Stralsund and Greifswald, 1784–1797

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Jörg-Peter Findeisen: The hunger year 1771 in Swedish Pomerania. A previously unknown collection of letters in the Stockholm Imperial Archives. In: Erich Donnert: Central, Northern and Eastern Europe. Böhlau, Cologne Weimar 2002, p. 776.
  2. ↑ Otto Titan von Hefner : Register of the flourishing and dead nobility in Germany. Vol. 3, Georg Joseph Manz, Regensburg 1865, p. 222.
  3. ^ Jörg-Peter Findeisen: Progressive cameramen in Swedish-Pomerania after 1750. In: Yearbook for economic history. 2/1986, ISSN  0075-2800 Akademie Verlag, p. 113 (accessed via De Gruyter Online).
  4. ^ Von Reichenbach (Johann David) . In: Johann Georg Meusel , Georg Christoph Hamberger : The learned Teutschland or Lexicon of the now living German writers . Vol. 6, Meyersche Buchhandlung, Lemgo 1798. P. 268. ( digitized version ).
  5. ↑ Thoughts on the Chamber Councilor von Reichenbach's patriotic contributions to the knowledge and reception of Swedish Pomerania by a Pomeranian farmer. (1784) and a letter to the Swedish-Pomeranian farmer in disguise, who wrote the thoughts on the Chamber Councilor von Reichenbach's patriotic contributions, from a real Prussian-Pomeranian farmer. (Ueckermünde 1784) - Digital copies in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania digital library

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personal data
SURNAME Reichenbach, Johann David von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish-Pomeranian chronicler, scientist
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1732
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifswald
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1807
Place of death Stralsund