Karl Franz Buddeus

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Karl Franz Buddeus, engraving by Johann Jacob Haid after Bach

Karl Franz Buddeus (born March 25, 1695 in Halle (Saale) , † July 5, 1753 in Gotha ) was a German lawyer and statesman .

Life

Karl Franz Buddeus (Budeus) was the second son of the theologian Johann Franz Buddeus and his wife Katharina Susanne Poßner. After studying in Jena , he became court advocate in Weimar in 1719 and landscape commissioner in 1727. In 1718 Buddeus went to Rudolstadt , was a prince-Schwarzburg judiciary and from 1730 he was court advisor. In 1734 he entered the service of Duke Friedrich III. of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg . In 1750 Buddeus became Vice Chancellor of the state government in Gotha.

Like his father, Buddeus found his final resting place in Gotha Cemetery I ( Alter Gottesacker ) between Bürgeraue and Eisenacher Strasse. After the cemetery was closed in 1874, his tomb was moved to the cloister of the Augustinian Church, where it can still be seen today near his father's tomb, which was also moved.

  • Karl Franz Buddeus, engraving by Johann Georg Schmidt after Bach

  • Gravestone in the Augustinian Church in Gotha

family

Buddeus' daughter Charlotte Eleonore Hedwig (1727–1794) was married to the Gotha high school professor Heinrich Blumenbach (1709–1787). From this marriage Johann Friedrich Blumenbach emerged, making Karl Franz Buddeus the grandfather of the founder of zoology and anthropology. He is also the grandfather of Johann Karl Immanuel Buddeus .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adolf Kleinschmidt:  Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 329 f. ( Digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Buddeus, Karl Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Budeus, Karl Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and statesman
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1695
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH July 5, 1753
Place of death Gotha