Johann Gottfried Blümner

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Johann Gottfried Blümner (* 1724 in Emseloh ; † November 16, 1798 in Leipzig ) was an electoral Saxon commissioner and district administrator of Leipzig as well as a manor owner .

Life

He was the son of the evangelical pastor Adam Blümner , who worked in Emseloh in the Electoral Saxon office of Sangerhausen in 1723 and, in contrast to his father, pursued a secular administrative career. From 1764 Blümner worked as Leipzig district administrator.

In 1777, he auctioned the indebted manor new pouch in Saxon Kurkreis in office Bitterfeld , previously Johann Christian Freiherr von Ochsenstein belonged had. In the same year he also acquired the two manors Frohburg and Kleineschefeld located in the Borna district . Frohburg had belonged to Georg Ludwig von Hardenberg (1720–1786) until his bankruptcy .

On October 9, 1783, he sold the Neu-Pouch manor to Carl Gottlob von Nostitz .

In 1789 the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig bought works by Johann Gottfried Blümner.

Shortly before his death in 1796, Johann Gottfried Blümner sold the Löbnitz manor, located in the administrative district of Pegau , to the von Levetzow family. a. Ulrike von Levetzow , who later became Goethe's friend , came from.

His son Ernst Blümner was born on January 26th, 1779 in Leipzig. From 1795 he studied law at the University of Leipzig and then in Göttingen . He became a Saxon legation councilor and owner of his father's manor in Frohburg. The son Heinrich Blümner (1765–1839) was a councilor in Leipzig and also a manor owner. After the death of Johann Gottfried Blümer, he inherited his father's manor Großzschocher with the associated village of Windorf , which he had bought in 1796. The daughter Caroline († 1853) married the Leipzig merchant Johann Rudolph Ferdinand Gruner.

The Blümner coat of arms with the year 1797 is today in one of the glass windows in the Apostle Church in Leipzig-Großzschocher.

literature

  • Friedrich Theodor Richter: Year booklet on the history of Leipzig . Leipzig, Julius Klinkhardt, 1863, p. 126.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry at the Saxon State Archives
  2. ^ Entry in the Leipzig Lexicon
  3. Tour of the Apostle Church in Leipzig