Johann Gotthelf Richter

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Johann Gotthelf Richter (born January 13, 1778 in Görlitz ; † February 24, 1839 there ) was a German lawyer.

Life

Johann Gotthelf Richter was born as the youngest son of the Council Chancellery Johann Christoph Richter and his wife Maria Dorothea. He had five brothers and a sister.

Johann Gotthelf Richter attended grammar school in Görlitz under the rector Johann Friedrich Neumann (1737-1802), who also taught him as a private teacher. Due to his good academic results, Johann Gotthelf Richter left grammar school a year earlier. In 1798 he came to the University of Wittenberg to study law , he had lectures with Ernst Friedrich Pfotenhauer and in 1802 he successfully completed his studies.

In 1803 he was admitted to the bar and was also allowed to practice before the senior office in Budissin . After the Peace of Vienna on May 18, 1815, Johann Gotthelf Richter found a job with the Royal Prussian Commission, which was supposed to regulate the territorial cedings and the redefinition of borders with the Kingdom of Saxony. His employment ended in 1816, but due to his services in the Royal Prussian Commission, on November 16, 1816, he was appointed judicial commissioner for litigation practice at the courts in Upper Lusatia and at the same time notarius publicus (= person who issued an official order to monitor certain questions in connection with documents, authorizations, certificates and more) in the department of the Royal Higher Regional Court in Glogau . On December 10, 1816 he was appointed assessor at the regional and municipal court in Goldberg . On June 17, 1822, he was transferred to the district court in Görlitz. There he stayed until his death and in 1836 he succeeded Director Krause at the Royal Regional and City Court in Görlitz.

In 1803 he married Maria Dorothea Fricke from Dresden , with whom he had two daughters. She died in 1812. In his second marriage he was married to Friederike Steinmetz from Dresden, who died shortly afterwards, during which time he lost twenty close relatives in a few years. In 1823 the third wedding was with the widowed Adelheid Baroness von Zollicoffer, b. from Steinbach.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New York Public Library: New Nekrolog der Deutschen ... BF Voigt, 1842 ( archive.org [accessed on November 2, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Samuel Baur: News historical: the greatest ... people of all time . Stettinische Buchhandlung, 1816 ( google.de [accessed November 2, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Judge, Johann Gotthelf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1778
PLACE OF BIRTH Goerlitz
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1839
Place of death Goerlitz