Johann Sebastian Kobe von Koppenfels

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Johann Sebastian Kobe von Koppenfels, copper engraving by Johann Jakob Haid after a drawing by Georg Albrecht Meuser

Johann Sebastian Kobe von Koppenfels , born as Johann Sebastian Kob (born August 15, 1699 in Eisfeld , † November 20, 1765 in Hildburghausen ) was a German lawyer and court official , most recently with the rank and title of a real secret council from the Duke of Saxony-Hildburghausen . He is the ancestor of the von Koppenfels noble family .

family

Johann Sebastian Kobe von Koppenfels came from the Thuringian , originally bourgeois cloth maker family Kob in Hildburghausen. His ancestors and relatives had been councilors of the city since the 16th century and even provided the mayor there through his grandfather Lorenz Kob († December 14, 1672 in Hildburghausen), who was also a cloth maker .

Kob was the fourth son of the Evangelical Lutheran pastor and superintendent of Eisfeld, Michael Kob (born February 26, 1652 in Hildburghausen; † October 25, 1717) and his wife Maria Catharina born in 1685. Sternbeck († 1745), daughter of the superintendent and court preacher of Saalfeld , Paul Sternbeck (1642–1717) and his wife Catharina Cordula, born in 1664. Partese.

Kob married Polyxena Regina born on June 18, 1737 in the church of St. Moritz zu Coburg . Will (born November 22, 1719 in Schweinfurt ; † June 12, 1756 in Hildburghausen), the youngest daughter of the Schweinfurt councilor and court councilor Georg Adam Will (1673–1720) and his wife Rosina Helena, née Elector Mainz and Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld . Gottschalk (1685-1735). The Kob couple had nine children, six of whom survived their father:

Life

Johann Sebastian Kob got his first school education in his home ice field. He enrolled at the 30 June 1716 at the University in Jena , where he jurisprudence studied and on 15 January 1721 his exams completed per practice, Forensi. On 25 January 1721 Kob was admitted as a lawyer in the Saxon government in Dresden, but where he stayed only a short time. On December 16, 1721, Kob enrolled at the University of Wittenberg .

After completing his studies, Kob began his civil service career on May 11, 1726 at the Princely Saxony-Eisenacher Oberamt Krayenberg . In 1728 he was commissioned by Duke Ernst August I of Saxe-Weimar as councilor and chamber consultant with the administration of the offices in Heusdorf and Kapellendorf .

On September 1, 1732, Kob became a real government and consistory assessor in the Duchy of Saxony-Hildburghausen . Just one year later, on May 15, 1733, Kob became a joint councilor of Saxony-Coburg-Saalfeld in the Secret Chancellery in Coburg, where he was involved in the difficult division of the Thuringian duchy.

On June 14, 1737, Kob was appointed Real Court and Government Councilor of the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg-Saalfeld by Duke Christian Ernst ; Three years later, in 1740, Kob was offered the office of a secret council in Saxe-Weimar by Duke Ernst August I , but he followed the urging of Dukes Ernst Friedrich II and Franz Josias to remain in his offices.

From 1742 Kob had rendered important services to the princely house in the duchy of Saxony-Hildburghausen and Saxony-Coburg for 20 years, especially under the guardianship of Sophia Albertine von Erbach . In the process brought about by the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen at the court court for the Sonnefeld office from 1743 to 1752, the Duchess and regent of Saxony-Hildburghausen, Caroline von Erbach-Fürstenau, mainly had Kob negotiated, who was able to shape the course of the process in an advantageous manner, especially in Hildburghausen The coin thing led to the proof.

At the end of 1748 Kob temporarily resigned all of his offices, but in 1750 was called back to the Duchy as a Real Privy Councilor by Duke Ernst Friedrich of Sachsen-Hildburghausen . Since 1752 was Kob inheritance , reclining and court Lord on Schwickershausen and Dobertshausen in Mellrichstadt .

On April 26, 1754, Johann Sebastian Kob was raised to hereditary imperial nobility with the addition of von Koppenfels by the German Emperor Franz I. In 1760 he appears for the first time as Kobe von Koppenfels as an author with this name. His grandson Ludwig Heinrich Kobe von Koppenfels (1780–1861), royal Saxon court and judiciary, received on January 1, 1810 the promotion to the baron status .

Kobe von Koppenfels died on November 20, 1765 at 5 a.m. after an 18-month illness . He was buried on November 24, 1765 in Hildburghausen with the participation of the family. The funeral speech was held by the court preacher , consistorial councilor and superintendent general of Hildburghausen, Philipp Ernst Kern . Only his two youngest sons were not present at his funeral in Hildburghausen, since Carl Heinrich was serving in the military in Braunschweig at that time and Just Siegfried was studying at the University of Leipzig.

Works (selection)

  • Exercitatio de iure socerorum, dissertation, 1720
  • Contents of the Sachsen-Hildburghäusische publication ..., 1752
  • Historical news that in the near future not a single imperial estate entitled to the coin regalia ..., 1759
  • Sachsen-Hildburghausische further comments on the coinage and the Fiscal Lawsuit filed for it, 1759
  • Convincing evidence that from time immemorial, by virtue of kaysser pardons, as in general the High Princely House of Sachßen, Ernestine line, so in particular also Sachßen-Hildburghausen, was entitled to coin shelves, 1760

swell

  • Till von Egidy: The ancestors of the von Egidy and von Koppenfels families, list of ancestors for the brothers Holm, Hans and Max von Egidy in: Studies on Culture and History - Volume 2, editors: Lars-Arne Dannenberg and Matthias Donath, Verlag Zentrum für Kultur // History of Niederjahna 2016
  • Philipp Ernst Kern: The scholarship in the death chamber placed in front of the coffin of the late Hochwohlgebohrnen Herr, Mr. Johann Sebastian Kobe von Koppenfels ..., Hildburghausen 1765, digitized version of the Bavarian State Library
  • Jürgen Telschow: Die Kobs - history and stories of the Kob family on jürgen-telschow.de , accessed on April 14, 2018
  • August Wilhelm Bernhard von Uechtritz: Diplomatic news from noble families ..., 6th part, Leipzig 1793, digitized on Google Books, p. 34ff.
  • Johann Georg Meusel: Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800, Volume 4, Leipzig 1808, digitized on Google Books, p. 272f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Weidlich: Biographical news from the now-living legal scholars in Germany, Volume 1, Halle 1781, digitized on Google Books, p. 429f.
  2. ↑ Record on MyHeritage , accessed April 15, 2018
  3. ↑ Justus Perthes: Genealogical pocket book of the briefing houses, Gotha 1920, p. 520
  4. ↑ Carl Heinrich von Koppenfels in the Dresden City Wiki with further genealogy
  5. ↑ Record on MyHeritage , accessed April 15, 2018
  6. ^ Digitized version of the Bavarian State Library
  7. ^ Digitized version of the ULB Saxony-Anhalt
  8. ^ Digitized version of the SLUB Dresden
  9. ^ Digitized version of the SLUB Dresden
  10. ^ Digitized on Google Books

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personal data
SURNAME Kobe von Koppenfels, Johann Sebastian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kob, Johann Sebastian (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lawyer and real secret council in Sachsen-Hildburghausen
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1699
PLACE OF BIRTH Ice field
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1765
Place of death Hildburghausen