Karl Johann Salemann

Karl Johann Salemann (born October 25 ^{. Jul} / 5. November 1769 ^greg. In Tallinn , † January 29 ^jul. / 10. February 1843 ^greg. ) Was a Russian lawyer , local politician and mayor of Tallinn.

Life

Salemann's parents were the German Baltic merchant Nicolaus Salemann and his wife Sophia nee Rydenius. Salemann attended high school in Reval from 1780–1787 and then studied law and philology at the University of Jena, graduating in 1790.

From 1790 Salemann lived and worked in Reval as a lawyer and private teacher. In 1790 he also joined the 3 drawing boards in the Reval Masonic Lodge Isis as Master Archimedes . In 1794 he married his cousin Anna Dorothea Lütkens, with whom he had 10 children. In 1797 he became Secretary of the Great Guild and in 1804 Secretary of the City Lower and Freight Court. From 1808 Salemann worked again as a lawyer. In 1813 he was councilor and in 1817 mayor with repeated re-election (1819–1823, 1825–1827, 1829–1831, 1833–1835, 1837–1838). From 1820 he was also a syndic . In 1826 he was a member of the city of Reval at the coronation of Nicholas I in Moscow .

From 1813 Salemann was secretary and later director of the Estonian Department of the Russian Bible Society . He was President of the City Consistory and founder of the Revaler Martin Luther Orphanage. Salemann's house was a cultural center in Reval. In 1816 he published the sermons and speeches of the senior pastor at the Knights and Cathedral Church of Reval Reinhold Johann Winkler.

The sculptor Robert Salemann was one of Salemann's sons.

literature

Carola L. Gottzmann / Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . 3 volumes; Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2007. ISBN 978-3-11019338-1 . Volume 3, p. 1105.

Web links

Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Karl Johann Salemann. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Karl Johann Salemann. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
^ Henning von Wistinghausen : Freemasons and Enlightenment in the Russian Empire: The Revaler Lodge 1773-1820 (Volume 1) . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-412-50131-0 , pp. 349 .
↑ 59th Baltic Historians' Meeting 2006, 10. – 11. June 2006, University of Göttingen . In: Baltic letters . No. 7–8 , 2006, pp. 10-12 .
↑ Carola L. Gottzmann, Petra horns: Dictionary of German literature of the Baltic and St. Petersburg: From the Middle Ages to the present . Walter de Gruyter , 2011, p. 608 .

personal data
SURNAME	Salemann, Karl Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian lawyer, local politician and mayor of Reval
DATE OF BIRTH	November 5, 1769
PLACE OF BIRTH	Reval
DATE OF DEATH	February 10, 1843
Place of death	Reval

[BBLD-1] Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Karl Johann Salemann. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital

[2] Henning von Wistinghausen : Freemasons and Enlightenment in the Russian Empire: The Revaler Lodge 1773-1820 (Volume 1) . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-412-50131-0 , pp. 349 .

[3] 59th Baltic Historians' Meeting 2006, 10. – 11. June 2006, University of Göttingen . In: Baltic letters . No. 7–8 , 2006, pp. 10-12 .

[4] Carola L. Gottzmann, Petra horns: Dictionary of German literature of the Baltic and St. Petersburg: From the Middle Ages to the present . Walter de Gruyter , 2011, p. 608 .