Johann Friedrich Hoffmann (lawyer)

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Johann Friedrich Hoffmann (born February 22, 1710 in Sangerhausen ; † October 28, 1759 ibid) was a lawyer from the Electoral Saxony region and a local politician. He was the mountain judge and mayor of the city of Sangerhausen.

Life

Johann Friedrich Hoffmann was the son of the excise inspector and councilor Johann Elias Hoffmann and his wife Sophia Elisabeth, née Amman. After attending the city school in Sangerhausen and, from 1723, the state princely school in Pforta , Hoffmann began studying at the University of Leipzig in 1729. He obtained his master's degree in 1732 and received his doctorate in both rights (Doctor iuris utriusque) in 1735 .

Following his studies, Johann Friedrich Hoffmann practiced as a lawyer in Sangerhausen.

In 1748 he worked as a court administrator for the Lords of Böltzig zu Oberröblingen ( Andreas Dietrich von Böltzig ), became a bailiff in Brücken and in 1751 a syndicus .

At the end of September 1752 he succeeded Gottfried Graefenhayn as mountain judge and mayor of Sangerhausen. As a mountain judge, he was responsible for compliance with the electoral mining law and for making judgments.

Hoffmann corresponded with Johann Christoph Gottsched and was a member of the afternoon speakers' society in Leipzig. In 1752 he became a member of the Society of Freyen Künste in Leipzig and in 1758 a member of the Churfürstlich Mayntzischen Academie of Useful Sciences in Erfurt. On October 6, 1759 he was elected a member (matriculation no. 627) of the Leopoldina with the academic surname Caesius Mutinensis II .

He was married to Anne Sophia, née Jerx, for the first time since 1736. The couple had a son. After the early death of his wife in 1746, he married Maria Johanna, nee Beyer, in 1747. The couple had two daughters and a son.

literature

  • Detlef Döring, Rüdiger Otto and Michael Schlott (eds.) With Franziska Menzel: Johann Christoph Gottsched. Correspondence including the correspondence from Luise Adelgunde Victorie Gottsched. Volume 2: 1731-1733. ISBN 978-3-11-020306-6 , de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 2008, p. 601 digitized
  • Rudolf Mirsch: Personalities of the Mansfeld mining and metallurgy industry . In: Announcements 126 of the Mansfeld Miners and Huts Association e. V., 6/2013.
  • Thilo Ziegler : The history of the Sangerhäuser Berg- und Hüttenwerk from the beginning to modern times . Issue 1 The Complete Overview , self-published, 2011, p. 38.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 223 digitized
  2. ^ Willi Ule : History of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the years 1852–1887 . With a look back at the earlier times of its existence. Commissioned by Wilhelm Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, supplements and additions to Neigebaur's history, p. 162 ( archive.org ).
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Johann Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Caesius Mutinensis II.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saxon lawyer, mountain judge and local politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1710
PLACE OF BIRTH Sangerhausen
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1759
Place of death Sangerhausen