Johann Jost Textor

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Johann Jost Textor (also Johann Justus Textor ) (born September 29, 1739 in Frankfurt am Main ; † September 19, 1792 ibid) was a German politician and lay judge as well as younger mayor of the imperial city of Frankfurt .

Life

Textor was the only surviving son of Johann Wolfgang Textor (1693–1771), Mayor of Frankfurt am Main, and of Anna Margarethe Lindheimer (1711–1783). Johann Jost Textor studied law at the University of Altdorf and was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD. After completing his studies, he was admitted to the Frankfurt bar on June 16, 1761. He married Maria Margaretha Möller on February 17, 1766 . The couple had five sons, including the lawyer and dialect writer Friedrich Karl Ludwig Textor .

After his father's death in 1771, he became a member of the Frankfurt Council. In 1783 he was the younger mayor of Frankfurt am Main. In 1788 he was elected alderman and a member of the Erste Bank .

His older sisters were Katharina Elisabeth Goethe (1731–1808), the mother of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , and Johanna Melber (1734–1823).

literature

  • Barbara Dölemeyer: Frankfurt lawyers in the 17th and 18th centuries , 1993, ISBN 3465025830 , p. 209. under the name Johann Justus Textor
  • Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (=  publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 , p. 467 .
  • Goethe's Works, Volume 1, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, JG Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1867
  • August Lewald: Europe, Chronicle of the Educated World; In connection with several scholars and artists, edited by August Lewald , Verlag J. Scheible, page 268
  • Ulrike Prokop: The Diary of Cornelia Goethe: The Illusion of the Great Couple , Volume 2, S. Fischer Verlag, 2017, ISBN 9783105618820

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Genealogisches Reichs- und Staats-Handbuch: on the year 1783, p. 6, digitized
personal data
SURNAME Textor, Johann Jost
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Textor, Johann Justus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Frankfurt lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1739
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1792
Place of death Frankfurt am Main