Johann Heinrich Schloifer

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Johann Heinrich Schloifer (born October 2, 1720 in Oldenburg ; † June 1, 1783 ibid) was a German chancellery and archivist for the county of Oldenburg and the Duchy of Oldenburg .

Life

Schloifer came from a respected family originally based in Württemberg who produced a number of theologians and later some leading officials in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg .

He was the son of the Oldenburg councilor and businessman Hayo Friedrich Schloif (f) er (1692–1740) and his wife Maria Elisabeth born. Stö (h) r (* 1693), whose first marriage was to the shopkeeper Balthasar Schörner. He grew up in Oldenburg, attended the old grammar school and studied law at the University of Leipzig from 1738 to 1740 . In 1742 he joined the Oldenburg civil service as a chancellery and was entrusted with the administration of the archives of the counties of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst , which at that time were under Danish sovereignty , which he headed for over forty years until his death.

In 1746, together with Johann Michael Herbart , the rector of the grammar school, he founded the Oldenburgische Nachrichten von Staats-, schehrten, and bourgeois things , which was the first newspaper to appear regularly in Oldenburg as a weekly and as a publication organ for the small, intellectually open-minded educated class of the Was a royal seat . However, this was too small to secure the economic existence of the newspaper in the long term and had to cease publication in 1748 for financial reasons.

Schloifer wrote several articles on the Oldenburg regional history for the newspaper, attempting to correct existing historical sources, such as the genealogies compiled by Hermann Hamelmann in the Oldenburg Chronicle . At the suggestion of the Danish governor in Oldenburg, Count Lynar , whose small discussion group included Schloifer, in 1754 he wrote a geographical-historical description of the counties of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst. This was later published without the knowledge of Schloifer in the magazine for recent history and geography edited by Anton Friedrich Büsching . In 1775 he published a third supplementary volume on Johann Christoph von Oetken's Corpus Constitutionum Oldenburgicarum , which contained the ordinances published between 1748 and 1775 as a supplement to this work, and also compiled statistical tables and information from the Oldenburg (state) calendar.

Schloifer's main interest, however, was the history of the country, which, under the influence of the Enlightenment, gained importance for the educated class of the county. In the pastor Sibrand Meyer and the bailiff Alarich von Witken he found interested colleagues. Since Schloifer, as an archivist, had unimpeded access to all historical sources, he used his professional position to compile the history of Oldenburg. Due to his state of health, however, before his death he was only able to complete a few parts that were preserved as manuscripts. These differ from the historical-statistical country customers that were widespread at the end of the 18th century, as they went far beyond the function of explaining the current situation. Gerhard Anton von Halem used Schloifer's manuscripts for his history of the Duchy of Oldenburg , written from 1794 to 1796 , for which Schloifer's work represents a kind of preliminary stage and which Halem gratefully and praisingly accepted.

family

Schloifer married Anna Elisabeth Henriette geb. Gries (baptized 1728), the daughter of the Oldenburg Chamber Councilor Peter Gries († 1741). Their son Friedrich Johann Adolf (1749–1807) became Chamber Councilor of Oldenburg , his grandson Johann Heinrich Jakob (1790–1867) became the first constitutional Prime Minister of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg.

Works

  • Geographical and statistical description of the counties of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst. Published in Büsching's magazine for recent history and geography. Vol. 3, Leipzig, 1769. pp. 105-154.
  • Letter from the chancellor and archivist JH Schloifer to the senior consistorial councilor Büsching in Berlin, concerning his magazine for history and geography, part 3, item 4. From January 24th 1770. Published in: Oldenburgische Blätter . 1829, pp. 197-200, 209-212, 219-220, 233-235.
  • Corpus Constitutionum Oldenburgicarum or ordinances in which both counties of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst, supplement volume 3 . Oldenburg, 1775.
  • The counties of Oldenburg and Del Menhorst . No location or year.
  • The current Duchy of Oldenburg or the counties of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst . No location or year.
  • Attempt of a detailed state history and historical-political-geographical description of the counties of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst together with the history of the rulers of the same . No location or year.
  • State history and historical-political-geographical description of the counties of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst . No location or year (drafts and fair copies).

literature

personal data
SURNAME Schloifer, Johann Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schloifer, Johann Henrich (different spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German office professor and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1720
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg (Oldb)
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1783
Place of death Oldenburg (Oldb)