Johann Franz Kunckell

Johann Franz Kunckell , also known as Kunckel and Kunkel , ennobled around 1800 as Kunckell von Löwenstern (born August 27, 1739 in Kassel ; † February 11 , 1814 there ), was a high-ranking German administrative lawyer in the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel .

Life

Professional background

Kunkell enrolled on January 22, 1756 as Joh. Franciscus Kunckell Casselis Hessus at the Hessian State University of Marburg . After completing his studies as a licentiate in law in 1761, he became Council Cabinet ( aldermen ) and government procurator in Marburg; he held the latter office until November 2, 1770. On May 8, 1767, he was also the syndic of Marburg University; he held this office until December 4, 1773. He also acted as Schenckischer Syndikus. From November 1770 he was advocatus fisci and from January 1774 Commissarius loci of the cities of Marburg, Kirchhain and Wetter . He was also a councilor at the collective court of the Hessian counties in Marburg.

On August 20, 1784, he was called to Kassel as a secret state secretary with the title and rank of a real councilor. It was there in 1790 that he was appointed to the council of war as director of the General War College and the War Chest. On February 17, 1796 he became Vice Chancellor, on April 15, 1800 he was given the title of Privy Councilor, and on May 15, 1803, he finally became Vice President of the Hessian government. At the end of his life he was chief steward to the Electress of Hesse.

Ennoblement

According to various sources, Johann Franz Kunkell was raised to the imperial nobility in 1800 with the name extension to Kunckell von Löwenstern . Following Siebmachers armorial , he is first on August 3, 1799 in Vienna as a noble from Kunckell in the kingdom knighthood been filed on Feb. 26, 1804 ibid would then assess the extension to Kunckell of Löwenstern be done.

There are no direct family ties to the alchemist Johann Kunckel von Löwenstern, who was almost of the same name and who was raised to the Swedish nobility in 1693 (see also the list of noble families called Löwenstern ).

Others

As a Freemason, Kunckell was a member of the Marburg Lodge on the Crowned Lion and a Knight of the Golden Order of Lions .

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• Capita selecta ex iure civili ecclesiastico criminali militari Germanico politia officiario feudali et publico de confirmatione: atque num haec fundet iurisdictionem Caesaris, si quid negotii ab hoc fuerit confirmatum? Diss. Per Lic. Marburg 1761.

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder : Basis for a Hessian Scholar and Writer History since the Reformation up to the present day , 7th volume. Kassel 1787, p. 324.
• Catalogus Professorum Academiae Marburgensis. The academic teachers of Philipps University from 1527 to 1910. Ed. Franz Gundlach. Marburg 1927, p. 553.
• Otfried Keller: The Justitiare-Syndici, university judges and university councilors of the University of Marburg. Darmstadt 1984, p. 74.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Inscription on the tombstone of Johann Frantz Kunckell von Loewenstern [1]
2. ↑ Catalogus Professorum , O. Keller (see literature)
3. ↑ J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms. 3rd volume, 11th department, arr. v. Maximilian Gritzner . Nuremberg: Bauer & Raspe 1901, p. 113. Since on the same date, February 26, 1804, Johann Georg Meckel , who was later exposed as a con man, was raised to the nobility with the extension of Löwenstern's name , however, an error on the part of the processor cannot be ruled out. (Cf. Werner Gutjahr: Meckel von Löwenstern. The impostor from Thuringia. Jena: Quartus Verlag 2009.)
4. ↑ Another compilation of the various noble families from Löwenstern
5. ↑ Stefan Redies: Freemasons, Knights Templar and Rosicrucians. On the history of the secret societies in Marburg in the 18th century. Marburg: Tectum 1998, p. 83.