Johann Friedrich Seyfart

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Johann Friedrich Seyfart (* 1727 in Halle (Saale) ; † June 30, 1786 ibid) was a German regimental auditor , writer, genealogist and heraldist .

Life

Johann Friedrich Seyfart studied in Halle, then stayed for a while in Erlangen before working as an auditor for the Anhalt-Bernburg regiment stationed in Halle and government inspector.

The writings he wrote are of a military, geographic and regional history.

The first attempts at a systematic description of Prussian generals come from Johann Friedrich Seyfart, who published a series of Prussian regimental histories in 1767, with the biographies of all officers of these regiments in the appendix.

Works

  • General history of earthquakes, Adam Jonatan Felsseckers seel. Heirs, 1756.
  • Current state of Holland […], Nuremberg, 1756.
  • Draft of a very recent description of the Kingdom of Bohemia [...], Frankfurt a. Leipzig, 1757 ( e-copy ).
  • Present state of Engelland: This not only deals with the old and new history of this kingdom recently, but also gives reliable information about the current state constitution, power and action, AJ Felssecker's heirs, 1757. ( e-copy ).
  • Brief history of all royal Prussian regiments: which continued until February 1759 […], 1759. ( E-copy ).
  • Brief history of all imperial royal regiments on horseback and on foot which continued until 1759 Frankfurt / Leipzig 1760 Google Book
  • War history of the Prussians from 1655 to 1763. Schröter, Philipp von, Leipzig, 1764.
  • JFS History of the war that has been waged in Germany and its neighboring countries since 1756, in which not only all the strange war events are described with an impartial pen, and battles, etc. are explained through the accompanying correct outlines of all sieges, but also made known by the most distinguished generals and others in this war People citing life and other strange circumstances. With copperplate engravings, 6 volumes, Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1758–1765.
  • Complete history of all Royal Prussian regiments from their establishment to the present day. Hall: Johann Gottfried Trampe, 1767.
  • Handbook of the latest genealogy, the genealogical tables of all current European potentates and the clerical and secular princes, together with an index of the ruling Counts of Salvation. Rom. Reichs und des Cardinals-Collegii contains / Re-examined, improved and increased, by Johann Friedrich Seyfart, Gabriel Nikolaus Raspe, Nuremberg 1768 ( e-copy ) Digital copy of the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt
  • Historical-genealogical description of the noble family von Gohr , Ife, Weißenfels 1769 ( e-copy ).
  • The Serene World Complete Book of Arms, Volume 2, Part 3, Nuremberg 1771, Plate 142.
  • Impartial history of the War of the Bavarian Succession . Leipzig 1780 ( e-copy ).
  • Life and government history of Friedrich the other king in Prussia , Leipzig 1788. Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ( e-copy )

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  • Johann Georg Meusel , Johann Samuel Publication: The learned Teutschland… Georg Christoph Hamberger, Meiersche Buchhandlung, 1787.
  • Johann Georg Meusel: Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. G. Fleischer, the Younger, 1813. (online at google books ).

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personal data
SURNAME Seyfart, Johann Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Regimental auditor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1727
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1786
Place of death Halle (Saale)