Johann Gottlob von Meyern

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Johann Gottlob von Meyern (born February 29, 1720 in Bayreuth , † March 27, 1789 in Holzminden ) was a German administrative lawyer and court official.

origin

Johann Gottlob von Meyern was the youngest son of the imperial postmaster in Bayreuth, Johann Anton Meyer. Adam Anton von Meyern (1700–1774), chamber councilor in Bayreuth, official governor and university curator in Erlangen, was his older brother.

Life

He was first educated by private teachers and from 1733 attended the Christian-Ernestinum grammar school in Bayreuth. From 1738 he studied law at the University of Jena . After completing his studies, he returned to his hometown and entered the civil service as a secretary in 1743. In 1744 he was appointed chief forestry and hunting secretary. Appointed government assessor in 1748, he became court and landscape councilor of the Margraviate of Bayreuth in 1750 . Also in 1750 he had the Palais Meyern on Friedrichstrasse built in Bayreuth according to plans by the court architect Joseph Saint-Pierre , today the seat of the Bayreuth Administrative Court .

On February 5, 1753, he sold the palace to Margrave Friedrich III. As part of the purchase agreement, he received land around Gut Bockshof, which his father had transferred to him in 1752, and which has now been upgraded to the Meyernberg manor by margravial decree . Here he also promoted sericulture . In 1756 Johann Gottlob von Meyern was appointed chamberlain, in 1758 as imperial postmaster and in 1759 as real chamberlain and general and chief director of all roads, streets, water pipes, bridges and public fountains in the margraviate. In 1760 he became Reichspostdirektor in Bayreuth.

After the death of Margrave Friedrich and the accession of Friedrich Christian in 1763, which led to considerable changes in the court, von Meyern entered the service of the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel . While retaining his position as Reich Postal Director, Duke Karl I appointed him Landdrost of the Weser Department in Holzminden as well as curator of the Amelungsborn Abbey School, whose seat had been moved from Amelungsborn Abbey to Holzminden in 1760 . In 1764 he sold Meyernberg to Carl Emanuel Hornberger. In 1771 he gave up his position as Imperial Post Director.

family

He was initially married to Regina Sophie Eleonora, born in 1745. Segnitz von Schmalfelden (1721–1757). After her death in 1758 he married Christina Wilhelmina Johanne, b. von Schauroth (1741–1800). From both marriages he left ten sons and nine daughters. Of these, eight were officers in the Brunswick, Coburg and Prussian services, and the children included:

  • Ludwig Gottlob (1755–1781), from 1776 as a lieutenant under Friedrich Adolf Riedesel in the American Revolutionary War , died in Connecticut in 1781 by falling from his horse
  • Philipp (1749-1822), Dutch general
  • Ernst Friedrich († 1794), district chief of Wolfenbüttel ∞ NN of Kniestedt
  • Heinrich (1747–1810), Prussian major
  • Luise († April 22, 1859), canoness
  • Karl († 1808), electoral Hanoverian captain and commandant of Peine
  • Wilhelm (1760–1848), Prussian major general;
  • August (1771–1845), Major General of Saxony-Coburg-Gotha, Lord of Hohenberg, Krusemark and Germerslage (Iden (Altmark)) ∞ Countess Auguste von Görtz-Wrisberg
  • Ferdinand (* 1770), privy councilor from Saxony-Coburg-Gotha and high court marshal.
  • Theodor († 1793), Prussian cornet

  • Palais Meyern (administrative court)

  • Meyernberg

Awards

Fonts

  • News from Bayreuth. 1770
  • News of the political and economic constitution of the Principality of Bayreuth and the Margraves of Brandenburg-Bayreuth who died in this century. Gotha: Ettinger 1780 ( digitized , Bavarian State Library )

literature

  • Georg Wolfgang Augustin Fikenscher: Scholars Principality of Bayreuth: Or biographical and literary news from all writers who were born in the Principality of Baireut and who lived in or outside of it and are still alive: in alphabetical order. Maier to Otto, Volume 6, Nuremberg: Lechner 1803, pp. 72/73
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses to the year 1860. Tenth year, p.554

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For details, see Magazine for Ansbach-Bayreuthische Geschichte Volume 3, Bayreuth: Joh. Andres Lübeck Erben 1797, p. 60 ff
personal data
SURNAME Meyern, Johann Gottlob von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative lawyer and court official
DATE OF BIRTH February 29, 1720
PLACE OF BIRTH Bayreuth
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1789
Place of death Holzminden