Johann Siegmund Leister

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Johann Siegmund Leister (born November 8, 1637 in Dresden ; † September 3, 1696 ibid) was a royal Polish and electoral Saxon governor of Dresden.

Life

Youth and education

Leister was born on November 8, 1637 in Dresden, the son of Michael Leister (* August 2, 1604 in Mittweida; † January 23, 1671 in Dresden), buried in a Schwibbogen grave in the Frauenkirchhof there , electoral Saxon magistrate , chief magistrate and secretary , since 1638 also councilor of Dresden, married since January 24, 1637 in Dresden to Elisabeth Leister geb. Vollhardt (born December 3, 1618 in Dresden, † September 9, 1678 in Dresden).

Leister was a student at the University of Wittenberg , studied law and matriculated in 1653. He was entered in the matriculations as Iohannes Sigmund Leister Dresdensis.

Career

As Oberamtmann of the city of Dresden, Leister had a wide range of tasks. He was responsible for the lawful conduct of the administration and was directly and personally responsible to the superior authority. His career was not uninteresting:

The Elbe Bridge

In 1683, the elector confirmed the jurisdiction of the Dresden council over the Elbe bridge through an order to bailiff Sigismund Leister .

Johann Andreas Eisenbarth at the age of 54 (copper engraving [cropped] by AB König [Berlin] from 1717)

On the basis of verifiable certificates from the years 1691 and 1692 in Electoral Saxony, the oculist Johann Andreas Eisenbarth felt encouraged to submit a written application for a privilege to the then Elector Johann Georg IV . Eisenbarth hoped for a new field for his activity in Kursachsen in order to surpass the previous areas. The city council of Leipzig demanded that the healed be shown. In Dresden, on the other hand, they insisted on a theoretical and practical test in front of a medical college of experienced doctors. The examination committee consisted of Dr. Heinrich Erndel and the city physician Dr. Martin Schurig (1656-1733). Johann Siegmund Leister was also present. At Eisenbarth's insistence, his examination took place successfully on January 27, 1693. The examination report contained the examination of the entire range "of his previous art, which, according to him, consists of cataracts and other eye diseases, deafness and other ear complaints, stone and fractures, all sorts of wounds, cancer and fistulated damage, including growths ...". The examiners found “that he gave a good and sufficient answer in all these points, including the anatomical knowledge necessary for this, also understood the associated enchireses [encheiresis = operation] or manipulations and to encounter those coincidences that often occur internally in such operationalibus gewust. ”The two examiners also praised the“ new, comfortable Stahr needle ”presented by Eisenbarth as his invention. Although Oberamtmann Leister sent the test report with approval to the Elector of Saxony on February 8, 1693, Eisenbarth only received the long-awaited privilege of the Electorate of Saxony as an official ID for his cures a year later, on January 27, 1694. Medical historiography in Saxony still has no answer to why people in the capital of the state of Saxony hesitated so long. In any case, Eisenbarth was so annoyed by this inexplicable delay that he never visited Dresden again. But he drew a benefit from it: When Elector August the Strong (1670–1730) was also crowned King of Poland in 1697, the advertising genius Eisenbarth also claimed this increase in status and from now on also called himself “Chursächsischer and Royal Polish privileged medicus ”.

Magdalena Sibylla von Neitschütz, Countess von Rochlitz

Elector Johann Georg IV. Began a relationship with Magdalena Sibylla von Neitschütz (1675–1694) in Saxony, and in 1693 he raised his lover to Countess von Rochlitz. In the summer of that year she gave birth to a daughter, but died a year later; the peeling was given as the cause of death . The elector died shortly afterwards. Peeling was also diagnosed. However, there are now doubts about this cause of death and poisoning is being considered for both people. He was succeeded as Elector of Saxony by his brother Friedrich August I , who, in view of the negative mood in the population and with a view to his finances, put the Neitschütz family (around 100 people) on trial. Under torture, Magdalena Sibylla's mother was accused of having "bewitched" the electoral prince and also having brought about the early end of his father. Leister, was used as a bailiff and criminal judge. Magdalena Sybilla von Neitschütz, Chamber Councilor von Arnim, Miss von Kuhlau, Elisabeth von Nitzsche, Secretary Engelschall, valet Gebhard, Chamberlain von Neitschütz and Chamber Director von Hoym were arrested and interrogated. The Rochlitz palace was examined and six tons of gold, jewels and precious stones were collected. On April 30th, the body of Rochlitz was taken out of the princely burial behind the altar of the Sophienkirche in order to subject it to a detailed examination because of the magic used. The bracelet with the portrait of Johann Georg was found on one arm and the bracelet with his hair on the other. That was the first beginning of the investigation, which was conducted by the bailiff Leister before the assembled Dresden city councilors.

family

Leister's siblings, Maria Sophia Leister († May 8, 1649 in Dresden) and Christian Leister (* February 28, 1641 in Dresden; † May 1659 in Dresden) died young.

On November 7th, 1665 he married Brigitta Dorothea geb. Fischer (born December 22, 1646 in Dresden, † December 14, 1710 in Dresden), buried on September 21 in the Church of Our Lady in Dresden. She was a daughter of the Electoral Saxon and ducal Saxon-Weimar General oradein Christian Fischer (born October 5, 1620 in Dresden; † July 6, 1686 in Dresden) and Kunigunde (born November 7, 1622 in Dresden; † September 28, 1690 in Dresden ), a daughter of David Hermann, kursächs. Münz-Guardein and Münz-Secretary, also Ober-Sächsischen-Kreises General-Guardein. The marriage was childless.

Leister's brothers-in-law were:

  1. Thomas Fischer (born May 2, 1645 in Dresden; † between 1695 and 1710), mint master in Harzgerode , Anhalt, around 1695 ;
  2. David Thieme (* 1650; † before September 14, 1721 in Dresden), buried September 14, 1721 in the St. Anne's Church in Dresden, councilor, royal Polish and Electoral Saxon. Senior Consistorial Secretary, married to Johanna Magdalena geb. Fischer (* around 1651 in Dresden; † before July 29, 1721 in Dresden), buried July 29, 1721 in the Frauenkirche in Dresden; and
  3. Magnus Lichtwer (born October 18, 1636 in Dresden, † October 27, 1710 in Dresden), on Pesterwitz , electoral prince. Saxon feudal and court secretary, married to Sophia Elisabeth b. Fischer (born December 9, 1653 in Dresden; † September 13, 1686 in Dresden), the grandparents of Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer the Younger (born January 30, 1719 in Wurzen ; † July 7, 1783 in Halberstadt ), a German lawyer and fabulous poet in the age of enlightenment .

Since September 1693 Leister was full mouth for his cousin Sophia Elisabeth Erndel nee. Ratkes left three daughters, Maria Sophia, Christiana Sophia and Magdalena Sophia Erndel, sisters of Christian Heinrich Erndel and Christian Friedrich Erndel . In 1694 he negotiated the sale of the hereditary manors Berreuth near Dippoldiswalde and Mulda near Freiberg , but died two years later on September 3, 1696 of consumption in Dresden and was buried there on September 19, 1696.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mitteldeutsche Familienkunde , Volume VI, Volume 20, Issue 3, p. 97
  2. ↑ Johann Gottfried Michaelis : Dreßdnische Inscriptiones and Epitaphia, . On which monuments of those who rest in God / are buried here in and outside the church to our dear women, and await a joyous resurrection to find / those who have died to perpetual Andes / those who are living but a mirror and willing followers, with all diligence searched together / and presented for public printing / together with a historical preface by the intended church. Self-published by the author, Dresden 1714, p. 195 ( digitized version of SLUB Dresden; online in the Google book search). Since he died in January 1671, it is uncertain whether it was perhaps for a relative or just a saying and not a funeral.
  3. ^ Archives for family research and all related areas with practical research aid, volumes 27–28, CA Starke, 1963
  4. ^ Album Academiae Vitebergensis: Younger Series Part 1 (1602–1660), University of Wittenberg, C. Holtermann, 1934, p. 527
  5. ^ History of the capital and residence city of Dresden from the earliest to the present time by Martin B. Lindau, 2nd volume, 1st issue, Dresden, Rudolf Kunze, 1859, page 164.
  6. ↑ Ärzteblatt Sachsen 12/2013 at www.slaek.de
  7. ↑ An attempt at a Chur-Saxon coin history; From the oldest except for the present time, Volume 2, Chemnitz, Johann Christoph Stößel, 1780.
  8. ↑ born corpse sermon by Brigitta Dorothea Leis provider Fisherwoman, 1710, M. POLYCARPO KUNADO, Diac. zH Creutz. Dreßden / prints Jacob Harpeter. Christian Weise Library , Zittau
  9. ^ Funeral sermon for Johann Sigmund Leister, 1696, Dresden, by Johannes Seebisch, preacher in Dresden, Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, catalog of the princely Stolberg-Stolberg collection of funeral sermons, Vol. II, Leipzig 1928.
personal data
SURNAME Leister, Johann Siegmund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leister, Johann Sigismund; Leister, Johann Sigmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Electoral Saxon & Royal Polish High Authority of the City of Dresden
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1637
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 1696
Place of death Dresden