Johann Wilhelm Neumair of Ramsla

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Johann Wilhelm Neumair von Ramsla: From Peace's actions and contracts in times of war: strange tract or action , Leipzig 1624

Johann Wilhelm Neumair von Ramsla (* 1572 ; † November 23, 1641 in Weimar ) was a German military historian , travel writer and early political economist .

Neumair - son of the Weimar Chamber Secretary Johann Neumair († 1593) - was a Thuringian manor owner. The family named themselves after the manor Ramsla near Weimar. After traveling to Italy possibly as early as 1582/83 accompanied by the later Weimar Chancellor and Jena professor Johann Stromer (1526–1607), an independent journey through Italy, Spain, France, England and the Netherlands followed from 1594 to 1597 (later by his nephew published as Itinerarium Europaeum ). In 1613/14 he was in the entourage of Duke Johann Ernst von Sachsen-Weimar on a trip through France, England and the Netherlands, for which Neumair published a travel description.

He wrote military as well as constitutional and international law writings on a large scale, which is why he was described by Max Jähns in 1890 as the “most fruitful and most important war scholar in Germany during the Thirty Years War”. One of his main works is the Strange Tractate of Estimates and Taxes , which appeared in Schleusingen in 1632 . He is considered a supporter of the provincial estates permit law, and as subjects friendly control theorists. Since it was mentioned by Wilhelm Roscher in his standard work on the history of national economy in Germany in 1874, its economic reception has been limited to a few works on tax law. In today's literature he is seen as a “well-traveled, worldly and literary nobleman” and as a “well-read mediator, particularly of Italian and French writings”. However, his scientific rank lies behind comparable contemporaries such as Georg Obrecht and Melchior von Ossa .

Neumair died on November 23, 1641 in Weimar. His funeral took place on December 9th in Ramsla. Parts of his estate or his library are now in particular in the Thuringian main state archive in Weimar, the Duchess Anna Amalia library in Weimar and in the Berlin State Library - Prussian cultural property.

literature

  • Friedrich Ratzel:  Neumayr v. Ramsla, Johann Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, p. 542 f.
  • L. Schmalz: The older Neumair in the Duchy of Saxony-Weimar. In: Family and History. 1, 1997, pp. 385-395; 2, 1997, pp. 442-451.
  • Frank Boblenz : Johann Wilhelm Neumair von Ramsla and his relations to the Weimar court. In: Early modern court culture in Hesse and Thuringia. Erlangen / Jena 1993, pp. 200-232.
  • Frank Boblenz: Johann Wilhelm Neumair von Ramsla (1572–1641). For the 425th birthday of a scholar who has hitherto hardly been noticed in his home country. In: weimar home. 11, 1997, pp. 29-34.
  • Frank Boblenz: Neumair von Ramsla, Johann Wilhelm. In: Felicitas Marwinski (Hrsg.): Thuringian Biographical Lexicon. Life paths in Thuringia. Collection 1, Weimar 2000, pp. 146–149.
  • Frank Boblenz: Neumair von Ramsla and von Dreyse. Case studies on ennobling in the 16th and 19th centuries. In: Home Thuringia. H. 3, 2007, pp. 18-20.
  • Frank Boblenz: A Dutch entry in the register of Johann Wilhelm Neumair von Ramsla from Weimar for Bernardus Paludanus in Enkhuizen from 1597. In: Weimar-Jena. The big city. The cultural-historical archive. H. 4, 2011, pp. 262-285.

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  1. ^ Wilhelm Roscher: History of the national economy in Germany. R. Oldenbourg, 1874, p. 217 f.
  2. Michael Stolleis: Pecunia nervus rerum. For public financing in the early modern period. Klostermann, Frankfurt 1983, p. 86f.

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