Johann Wolfgang Textor the Elder
Johann Wolfgang Textor (born January 20, 1638 in Neuenstein ; † December 27, 1701 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German lawyer and archivist .
Life
Johann Wolfgang Textor came from a family that had lived in Hohenlohe for generations . His father, the Hohenlohe councilor and chancellery director Wolfgang Textor (1588–1650), had Latinized the original family name. While his grandfather Georg Weber was still a tailor in Weikersheim , his son entered the civil service of the Count of Hohenlohe-Langenburg in Neuenstein after studying law .
Johann Wolfgang was born on January 20, 1638 as the son of Wolfgang Textor and his wife Magdalena Praxedis. Enslin born. From 1653 he studied law in Jena , from 1655 in Strasbourg and in 1658 went to the Imperial Court of Justice in Speyer as an intern . From 1662 to 1666 he held his father's office in Neuenstein, interrupted by a doctorate in Strasbourg. In 1666 he was appointed professor at the University of Altdorf , where u. a. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was one of his students.
His lectures and legal treatises, but above all his work as legal advisor to the imperial city of Nuremberg , quickly gave him a good reputation, so that in 1673 he became professor of law at the University of Heidelberg and assessor at the court and marriage court there. In 1688 he was appointed vice-president of this court.
Because of the devastation that Heidelberg had suffered in the War of the Palatinate Succession , he accepted a position as syndic and legal advisor to the Free Imperial City of Frankfurt am Main in early 1691 . His tasks included the management of city legal transactions, u. a. representing the city at the Reich Chamber of Commerce. As a part-time job, he was also responsible for managing the Frankfurt City Archives .
Johann Wolfgang Textor died on December 27, 1701 as a result of a stroke. His grave is in the Katharinenkirche .
He was married to Anna Margaretha geb. Priest from Crailsheim . The wedding took place on April 20, 1663 in Neuenstein. The couple had a son Christoph Heinrich (1666-1716), who married the Frankfurt bourgeois daughter Maria Catharina Appel in 1693 and settled as a lawyer in Frankfurt am Main. His grandson Johann Wolfgang Textor was the father of Katharina Elisabeth Goethe , the mother of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe .
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Johann Wolfgang Textor wrote numerous legal articles and treatises, a. a. on Roman and German private law, constitutional and international law. In 1667 he wrote the memorandum on the raison d'être of the Holy Roman Empire , in which he campaigned for the unification of the three denominations permitted in the empire ( Roman Catholic Church , Evangelical Lutheran Church , Reformed Church ). He also wrote a number of Latin poems.
literature
- 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 .
- Is treated in the article by Alexander Dietz: Textor, Johann Wolfgang . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, pp. 630-632.
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Textor, Johann Wolfgang the Elder |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and archivist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 20, 1638 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neuenstein (Hohenlohe) |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 27, 1701 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |