Johann Gerhard Gruner

Johann Gerhard Gruner (born February 15, 1734 in Coburg ; † July 1, 1790 there ) was a German lawyer and historian.

Life

Johann Gerhard Gruner was the son of the Privy Councilor and Consistorial President Johann Friedrich Gruner (* September 11, 1688; † April 12, 1756) and his wife Euphrosine Maria (* April 26, 1705; † April 18, 1756), a daughter of Johann Friedrich Facius (born February 4, 1674 in Roßla ; † September 18, 1731 in Coburg), chamber councilor and scholarch , born. The names of his siblings are known:

• Johann Friedrich Gruner (1723–1778), Protestant theologian, historian, rhetorician and educator;
• Rudolph Erdmann Gruner (born September 10, 1737 in Coburg, † January 16, 1804 in Berga ), 1761 pastor in Roschütz .

Johann Gerhard Gruner was tutored by private tutors and from 1750 attended the Coburg academic high school Casimirianum . Once finished, in 1752, he studied at the University of Jena jurisprudence and then returned to Coburg. He became court and government advocate and appeared at the Reichshofrat and the Reichskammergericht as well as before regional authorities.

He became a chamber consultant and was tasked with defending the interests of the sovereign of the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg-Saalfeld against unlawful interference. He was sent to conferences at which he represented the interests of the ducal house. In 1770 he accompanied the privy councilor Moritz August von Thümmel in important matters of the Duke to Vienna , both of which earned his express thanks.

After he was a chamber assessor for a short time , he became a chamber councilor and six years later a court councilor and in 1782 a privy councilor and in 1783 a privy councilor and president of the rent chamber , in which he was the only council of three councilors for ten years, the other two remained vacant. In addition, he was a scholarch and a member of the police, breeding and orphanage commissions.

In his spare time he dealt with historical topics and biographies and wrote a number of papers on them.

Johann Gerhard Gruner's first marriage was to a born nobleman who lived in Hildburghausen . During a trip with his wife and sister from Hildburghausen to Coburg, the car in which they were driving fell over in a badly swollen little stream, and his wife and sister drowned.

In his second marriage he was with Margarethe Barbara (* unknown; † 1836), b. Habermann from Hildburghausen married. They had several children together.

Fonts (selection)

• C. Velleii Paterculi quae supersunt ex Historiae Romanae voluminibus 2 . Coburgi: Findeisen, 1762.
• The complaints were submitted to the ducal house of Saxe-Coburg through the prescriptive Reichshofrathsrescripts issued in the matter of the Banz monastery. 1781
• Continued corrections to the topography of the Herzogl. S.-Coburg-Meiningischen share in the duchy or rather the principality of Coburg: in which the court Neustadt, which belongs to the ducal-saxony-Coburg-Saalfeld bullish cum omnimoda Iurisdictione et Superioritate territoriali, including the localities belonging to it, is described in a more complicated manner, along with some important - mostly never printed and various seldom made documents . Coburg by Rudolph Wilhelm Ahl 1782.
• Notes on the answer to the corrections to the Herzogl's topography. S. Coburg-Meiningischen share in the Principality of Coburg . Coburg by Rudolph Wilhelm Ahl 1782.
• Historical-statistical description of the Principality of Coburg, S. Saalfeldischen Antheils . Coburg by Rudolph Wilhelm Ahl 1783–1793.
  • [First part]. Along with a document book and a map of this principality (1783) ( digitized ).
  • Addendum, or second part. In addition to some documents and a map, which the Principality of Coburg, as it used to belong together, presents (1784) ( digital copy ).
  • Third part. With corrective additions, some treatises and a collection of Coburg regional laws (1793) ( digitized ).
• Actual historical narration, along with display of the actual status controversiae in the same of the arguments against and in front of the matter, also refutation of the first, ad causam of the municipality of Hemmendorf, against the bishopric of Bamberg, the local government, and the march commissarium Martin: with Inserts from Num. 1. to 9. incl . 1783
• Some messages belonging to the history of Johann Friedrich the Mediator, Duke of Saxony, backed up with unprinted documents . Coburg by Rudolph Wilhelm Ahl 1785.
• History of Johann Kasimirs, Duke of Saxony: the same continued news from the S. Koburg Eisenberg u. Römhild. Successions dispute from 1737 to 1783 . Coburg by Rudolph Wilhelm Ahl 1787.
• Biography of Albrecht the Third, Duke of Saxony . Coburg by Rudolph Wilhelm Ahl 1788.
• Biography of Friedrich Wilhelm des Zweyten, Duke of Saxony [et] c .: a contribution to the Saxon, especially Koburg, and Altenburg history . Coburg by Rudolph Wilhelm Ahl 1789.
• At the crypt of Johann Gerhard Gruners on July 1st, 1790, the after-named all deeply moved Cives Casimiriani utriusque Coetus lamented their painful loss in the following funeral speech . Coburg by Rudolph Wilhelm Ahl 1790.
• History of Friederich Wilhelm I, Duke of Saxony . Coburg by Rudolph Wilhelm Ahl 1791.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Friedrich Schlichtegroll: Nekrolog on the year 1790, Zweyter Volume, pp. 18–24. Retrieved February 10, 2018 . 
2. ^ ADB: Gruner, Johann Gerhard - Wikisource. Retrieved August 2, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung . Joh. Gottfr. Müllerischen Buchh., 1790 ( google.de [accessed on August 2, 2018]).
4. ^ Gallery of Memorable Statesmen of the 18th and 19th Centuries: Who Completed Their Earthly Careers, pp. 110–111 . L. Schreck, 1840 ( google.de [accessed on August 2, 2018]).
5. ^ German biography: Gruner, Johann Gerhard - German biography. Retrieved August 2, 2018 .