Johann Georg Burckhard

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Johann Georg Burckhard , latinized Janus Gregorius Betulius , (born September 24, 1684 in Sulzbach ; † November 4, 1764 in Wolfenbüttel ) was a German lawyer and archivist from Brunswick-Lüneburg and a secret councilor.

Life

Johann Georg Burckhard came from the Upper Palatinate and was the son of the Protestant pastor, Magister Georg Christoph Burckhard at the city church in Sulzbach, and brother of the later city physicist Johann Heinrich Burckhard in Wolfenbüttel and the brother of the Wolfenbüttler librarian Jacob Burckhard (1681–1753). From 1699 he attended high school in the city of Schleusingen in the Duchy of Saxony-Zeitz . Then he went to study law at the University of Jena .

From 1716 he worked as a clerk in the Brunswick residence city of Wolfenbüttel . Two years later he was appointed court and feudal secretary. As such, he took over the management of the ducal archive in 1726. In 1728 he was promoted to the feudal council and in 1729 to the court councilor. Most recently, from 1749, he was the Privy Councilor at the court of Wolfenbüttel.

Works (selection)

  • (with Christianus Henricus Erndtel): Epistola ad amicum qua ea, quæ CHED ie Christianus Henricus Erndtel in relatione de itinere suo Anglicano & Batauo, annis MDCCVI & MDCCVII facto, de Augusta Bibliotheca Wolfenbuttelensi, & seren. ducis Antonii Vlrici secessu in Salinarum valle, recenset, examinata multiplicis arguuntur falsitatis. Præmittuntur, quæ ad Io. Auentini annales Boiorum, & Bas. Fabri thesaurum [...] pertinent, etc. , 1710.
  • (with Basilius Faber): Iani Gregorii Betulii Ad Irenæum Philalethem epistola, qua nonnulla ad priorem ipsius epistolam illustrandam, in primis vbi de Bas. Fabri thesauro erudit. schol. et Io. Auentini annalibus Boior. agitur, adferuntur ac iis simul, qui obiecerunt quædam, breuiter respondetur , 1711.

Honors

A contemporary oil painting by Johann Georg Burckhard is now in the Lower Saxony State Archives , Wolfenbüttel.

literature

  • Johann Georg Meusel: Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800 , Volume 1, 1802, p. 729.
  • German Biographical Archive (DBA), Vol. I, p. 166, 110–126.
  • Horst-Rüdiger Jarck: Johann Georg Burckhard . In: Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 8th to 18th centuries [...], Braunschweig, 2006, p. 126.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Messages from famous people and families in Lower Saxony , Volume 1, p. 27 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Burckhard, Johann Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Betulius, Janus Gregorius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1684
PLACE OF BIRTH Sulzbach
DATE OF DEATH November 4, 1764
Place of death Wolfenbüttel