Johann Gottfried Misler (lawyer)

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Johann Gottfried Misler (born August 9, 1720 in Hamburg ; † October 7, 1789 there ) was a German lawyer , author and senior senior secretary of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.

Life

Misler was the son of the same name theologian Johann Gottfried Misler (1679-1748) and his wife Anna Catharina Matthaei (1693-1750), daughter of the provost of the church district Bederkesa , born Martin Matthaei (1666-1728) in Hamburg. After his school education at the learned school of the Johanneum and the Academic Gymnasium in Hamburg, Misler studied law from 1742 at the University of Leipzig and the University of Gießen . In 1747 he completed his studies with a licentiate in law . He returned to Hamburg, where he was a 1748 lawyer admitted and in 1750 a member of the Lower Court . On September 28, 1762, he was elected senior secretary as successor to Justus Vincent Ritter (1715–1774), who was elected senator, and held this office until his death in 1789. He was succeeded by Vincent Oldenburg (1759–1833). Misler was also court master of the Hospital of the Holy Spirit .

family

Misler married on August 1, 1754 Maria Schramm (1734–1777), daughter of the Hamburg merchant Hieronymus Schramm (1701–1751) from his first marriage to Maria von Beseler (1694–1740). His wife died of tuberculosis on June 7, 1777 after giving birth to 11 children:

  1. Maria (* 1755) ⚭ 1778 August Johann Michael Encke
  2. Jerome (* 1758)
  3. Christiane (* 1759) ⚭ 1781 Johann Christian Plath
  4. Johanna (* 1761) ⚭ 1780 Arnold Wienholt
  5. Catharina (* 1762) ⚭ 1794 Georg Heinrich Berkhan
  6. Johann Gottfried (* 1763)
  7. Anna Clarissa (* 1765) ⚭ 1793 Johann Michael Hermann Harras
  8. Johann Martin (* 1766)
  9. Hans Diedrich (* 1767)
  10. Jakob Heinrich (* 1769)
  11. Dorothea (* 1771)

Works (selection)

  • Diss. Iur. de querela et exceptione non numeratae pecuniae in cambiali negotio, maxime ad iura Hamburgica applicata . Giessen 1747, p. 80 ( digitized on the pages of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek).
  • To my beloved virgin bride Mademoiselle Maria Schramm . Hamburg 1754.
  • My thoughts about Mr. Johann Melchior Goezens Pastoris at the main church St. Catharinen in Hamburg . Hamburg 1780, p. 16 ( digitized on the website of the Berlin State Library).
  • Brief confirmation of my thoughts about the main pastor name and the non-existence of a spiritual overseer or superintendent in Hamburg . Hamburg 1780, p. 24 ( digitized on the website of the Berlin State Library).
  • In memory of my heavenly wife . Herold, Hamburg 1781, p. 132 ( digitized version on the website of the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library).
  • At the end of my twenty-five years in office . Hamburg 1787, p. 12 ( digitized on the website of the Lower Saxony State and University Library Göttingen).

literature

  • Hamburg reports of the latest scholarly things . tape 17 . Hamburg 1748, p. 131–132 ( digitized on the pages of the Lower Saxony State and University Library Göttingen).
  • Friedrich Georg Buek : The Hamburg upper elders, their civil activity and their families . Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1857, p. 385–386 ( digitized from Google Books).
  • Hans Schröder : Lexicon of the Hamburg writers up to the present . tape 5 , no. 2608 . Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1870 ( facsimile on the pages of the Hamburg State and University Library).
  • Cipriano Francisco Gaedechens : History of the Hospital to the Holy Spirit in Hamburg . In: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History . tape 8 . Hamburg 1889, p. 407 ( digitized on the website of the Hamburg State and University Library).
  • Bernhard Koerner (ed.): German gender book . tape 27 . Starke Verlag, Görlitz 1914, p. 111–120 (also Hamburg Gender Book . Volume 5.).
  • Percy Ernst Schramm : The Hamburg woman in the age of sensitivity . In: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History . tape 41 . Hamburg 1951, p. 233–267 ( digitized on the website of the Hamburg State and University Library).

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predecessor Office successor
Justus Vincent Ritter Senior Secretary to Hamburg
1762–1789 		Vincent Oldenburg
personal data
SURNAME Misler, Johann Gottfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Misler, Johannes Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1720
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 1789
Place of death Hamburg