Johann Nicolaus Schwendler

Johann Nikolaus Schwendler (* 1709 in Erlau ; † 1758 in Ostheim) was, among other things, an occasional writer.

Born in the county of Henneberg , Johann Nikolaus Schwendler grew up as the youngest of four children in Erlau near Schleusingen. The year of birth is not known, but the year of baptism 1709 is found in the baptismal gestures of St. Killian's Church.

The father, Johann Adam Schwendler, earned his living as a master blacksmith. After the early death of the father in 1711, the mother Ursula Schwendler remarried. Following his basic training at the St. Killian School and the Hennebergisches Gymnasium, he studied law at the University of Leipzig on June 25, 1731 and joined the Bavarian nation. Matriculation, which was quite late for this time, raises some questions about Schwendler's previous résumé. Wolfram Suchier assures in his paper about Schwendler from 1957 that Schwendler cannot be found at any other university in Saxony. The possibility that Schwendler was enrolled at a foreign university seems implausible due to the electoral decree of 1726, which ordered regional children to study for the first two years at an electoral Saxon university. Schwendler seemed to have progressed considerably more slowly with his basic training for reasons that were not apparent.

In 1736 Nikolaus found a job as court master of the brothers Johann Karl and Johann Wilhelm Ebner von Eschenbach , with whom he matriculated at the University of Altdorf . In his next station he meets us as an informator for the young nobleman Johann Friedrich Philipp Marschalk von Ostheim . After some “abstinence from sources”, Schwendler appeared in 1747 as court master of the noble scion Sylvius Friedrich Ludwig Freiherr von Frankenberg . Both enrolled at the University of Marburg in the same year. In 1748 Schwendler wrote his "reliable report on the current constitution of the University of Marburg".

In 1749 he and his protégé were sent to Halle. Probably the better reputation of the Halle Law School was the reason for the change. Schwendler remained in the sources until 1752, when he appeared as a clerk in Trabesldorf near Bamberg in 1755. The knightly place was owned by the Marschalk von Osterlitz family, whose scion was one of the Schwendlers' eleven. In 1754 Schwendler then moved to Lichtenberg as a commissioner, where he was appointed court and secret councilor in Eisenach a short time later in 1756. In 1758 Schwendler died in Ostheim at the age of only 49.

literature

• Bernhardt, Kirsten; Krug-Richter, Barbara: Mohrmann, Ruth-E .: Hospitality and conviviality in the academic milieu in the early modern period, Waxmann Verlag GmbH, Münster 2013
• Suchier, Wolfram: Johann Nikolaus Schwendler from Henneberg. A foray into the German scholarly republic of the 18th century, in: Scientific journal of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, No. VII / 4, 1958, pp. 939–956.

Web links

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Remarks

1. ↑ Registration University of Leipzig , p. 384, June 25, 1731.
2. ^ Entry in the Altdorfer matriculation , p. 563, of August 29, 1736
3. ↑ Schwendler's entry in the Marburg matriculations , p. 305, of May 2, 1747.