Johann Franz von Boltenstern

Johann Franz von Boltenstern (born February 22, 1700 in Greifswald ; † March 28, 1763 ibid) was a German lawyer and judge at the court court in Greifswald and at the Wismar upper tribunal .

Life

He was the son of Franz Michael von Boltenstern († 1716), director of the royal Swedish court in Greifswald, and his wife Catharina von Ehrenfels. From 1718 to 1721 he studied law at the University of Greifswald .

In 1721 he began his career as a registrar at the court in Greifswald . Here he was gradually promoted, in 1723 he became an extraordinary trainee lawyer, in 1737 a full trainee lawyer and associate assessor. Towards the end of his life he got a job as assessor at the upper tribunal in Wismar , but died soon after he was sworn in.

Johann Franz von Boltenstern emerged as a legal historian. He supported Augustin von Balthasar with his Apparatus diplomatici-historicus , which appeared in 1730 and 1731. In 1742 he and Augustin von Balthasar founded the Collectorum historiae et juris patrii society in Greifswald . He edited parts of the police regulations and compiled material on the history of the cities of Swedish Pomerania .

Johann Franz von Boltenstern was married to Beate Eva von Netzow († 1779). His youngest daughter Eleonore Hedwig (1746–1786) married the Greifswald professor Johann Georg Peter Möller .

literature

• Adolf Häckermann :  Boltenstern, Johann Franz von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 114.
• Nils Jörn : Boltenstern, Johann Franz von (1700–1763). In: Dirk Alvermann , Nils Jörn (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon für Pommern . Volume 1 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania. Series V, Volume 48.1). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne Weimar Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-412-20936-0 , pp. 38-40.

Web links

• Literature about Johann Franz von Boltenstern in the state bibliography MV