Karl Gottlob Günther

Karl Gottlob Günther (born September 26, 1752 in Lübben ; † December 18, 1832 in Dresden ) was a German lawyer, archivist and long-time director of the Secret Archives in Dresden.

Life

After attending the Lyceum in Lübben, Karl Gottlob Günther studied law and received his doctorate in Leipzig in 1773 . In 1775 he became a lawyer and notary in Dresden. In 1776 he moved to Regensburg as private secretary of the Saxon Reichstag envoy Otto Ferdinand von Loeben . After his return to Dresden, he decided to pursue a career in archives and became secret registrar in 1778 and second secret archivist and head of the secret archive in 1794. After the death of his predecessor, he was named First Secret Archives Council in 1806.

In addition to his archival activities, he was also court advisor of the Saxon state government from 1794, secret trainee lawyer in the secret consilium (the highest government authority after the cabinet), from 1806 secret legation councilor and from 1806 to 1819 in the imperial department of the consilium. As a member of the Saxon delegations he took part. a. participated in the imperial elections of 1790 and 1792 , the peace negotiations of Rastatt (1797–1799) and the negotiations on the assignment of territory with Prussia.

Publications

• Friedrich Gottlieb Zoller ( President ), Karl Gottlob Günther ( Respondent ): Observationum Iuridicarum Specimen Academicum. Langenheim, Leipzig 1773 ( digitized version )
• De origine et auctoritate Constitutionum Saxonicarum de A. 1572. [Regensburg] 1776 ( digitized version )
• Outline of a European international law based on reason, treaties, tradition and analogy with application to the German imperial estates. Monday, Regensburg 1777 ( digitized version )
• About the establishment of the main archives, especially in the German Reichslanden. Richter, Altenburg 1783 ( digitized version )
• European international law in peacetime according to reason, treaties and tradition with application to the German imperial estates. Richter, Altenburg 1787 and 1792 ( Volume 1 , Volume 2 )
• The Privilegium de non appellando of the Electoral and Princely House of Saxony from history and state law with the associated pieces of files is explained. Breitkopf, Dresden and Leipzig 1788 ( digitized version )
• The unlimited scope of the Saxon freedom of appeals according to the true meaning of the imperial privileges and tradition proved. Breitkopf, Dresden and Leipzig 1789 ( digitized ).

literature

• New Lusatian magazine. Volume 11, 1833, pp. 102-104 ( digitized version )
• Bernhard Friedrich Voigt (editor): New Nekrolog der Deutschen. 10th year, 1832, part 2, Voigt, Ilmenau [ua] 1834, pp. 820–822, no. 360 ( digitized version )
• Hans Beschorner : The founding of the Saxon main state archive a hundred years ago. In: New archive for Saxon history and antiquity. Volume 55, Dresden 1934, pp. 140-160, especially pp. 141-147
• Kurt Wensch : archive history and genealogy. In: Reiner Groß and Manfred Kobuch (editors): Contributions to archival science and historical research. Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1977, p. 158
• Agatha Kobuch: The Secret Archive in Dresden and Karl Gottlob Günther (1752-1832). In: Archive messages. Volume 35, 1985, pp. 190-195
• Wolfgang Leesch : The German archivists 1500–1945. Volume 2: Biographical Lexicon. Saur, Munich a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-598-10605-X , p. 206.
• Claudia Taszus: The secret passion of the secret archivist. The Sotadica collection of Carl Gottlob Günther (1752–1832) . In: Dirk Sangmeister / Martin Mulsow: German Pornography in the Enlightenment , Göttingen: Wallstein [2018], ISBN 9783835332713 , pp. 697–719.

Web links

• Jörg Ludwig: Günther, Karl Gottlob . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .