Leopold August Cirsovius

Leopold August Cirsovius (born March 4, 1706 in Ahrensbök , † February 10, 1770 in Kiel , buried in Münsterdorf ) was a German lawyer and state lawyer.

Live and act

Leopold August Cirsovius was a member of the Cirsovius family and a son of David Immanuel Cirsovius (* around 1674 in Fredericia ; † February 1716 in Ahrensbök) and his wife Sophie Ernestine, née Franck, widowed Gramkow (* around 1675 in Ahrensbök; † 16. December 1751 in Windbergen ). The father traveled with Hereditary Prince Adolf August von Plön and worked as a pastor in Ahrensbök from 1701. The mother was a daughter of the clerk Martin Franck from Ahrensbök, who died before 1688. Her first marriage was the clerk Karsten Gramkow from Reinfeld, who died in 1698.

Cirsovius was given the first name of the only son of the widowed Duchess Elisabeth Sophie Marie , who died that same year at the age of four. Initially, Cirsovius and his siblings received private lessons in his parents' house. His father died in early 1716. The Duchess then helped Cirsovius and his older brother Erdmann Seyfart (1704–1777) in 1718 to free places in the Latin school of Amelungsborn Monastery . Cirsovius should embark on a military career, but refused. Instead, following his brother's example, he wished to study theology. The Amelungsborn rector Müller also spoke out in favor, so that Cirsovius could finally study.

At Easter 1724, Cirsovius and his brother finished school. In October 1724 they enrolled at the University of Jena. The Braunschweiger Hof had promised scholarships but did not pay them. Since the mother also had little money, the brothers left the university in 1727 and went to Braunschweig. Cirsovius would have got a job as an auditor (military judge), but refused it. Instead, he went to his half-brother Benedict Ernst Gramkow in Schönberg and took the exam under Berthold Christoph Balcke as the first administrative officer of the Principality of Ratzeburg.

Cirsovius wanted to take up a career at the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Wetzlar, but his mother's means were insufficient. Instead he taught a son of the family as a private tutor for the von Wetken family on Groß Schenkenberg . In addition, he continued his studies and dealt with the estate economy. After a short time he handled the property's legal transactions. He also worked as a notary for Johann Schaevius .

When Duke Friedrich Karl moved into Plön in 1729 , Cirsovius tried to get a job with him. As the efforts seemed futile, he settled in Glückstadt in spring 1731 as a lawyer. His older colleagues Johann Jacob Adami and Zacharias Ernst Groth supported him so that he quickly had enough income to start his own household. Monastery provost Benedikt von Ahlefeldt occasionally assigned him the task of presiding over the court of the Uetersens monastery in his place . At an unknown time, he was appointed government lawyer. King Friedrich V confirmed this after his enthronement in 1746.

During the change in Kiel in 1748, the Schleswig-Holstein knighthood elected Cirsovius as their state counsel. This was linked to the requirement to have a residence in Kiel for two years. In autumn 1749 Cirsovius complied with the requirement. From 1754 he also worked for Duke Friedrich Carl von Plön. This made him a judicial councilor and entrusted him with the task of handling the royal bankruptcy proceedings of the Plön subduchy of Rethwisch in 1753 . In addition, he was supposed to negotiate the succession treaty together with Justice Councilor Franz Barthold Schrödter, according to which the Duchy of Plön should go to the King of Denmark.

The Duke convinced Cirsovius with good offers to switch completely to his service. Cirsovius bought a house from the late court marshal Bugislaw Ernst von Holstein and planned to resign from the service as state counsel in the summer of 1757. After his second marriage in late 1756, however, he decided to stay in Kiel. He received an annual pension of 200 Reichstalers from the Duke of Plön so that he could continue to use him. In 1759 Cirsovius took over the chairmanship of a commission that was supposed to clarify why there had been an uprising in the villages of the Traventhal office .

Friedrich Carl von Plön died in 1761. Cirsovius then sent his appointment to the Plön judiciary to the new sovereign, King Friedrich V. In doing so, he wrote that, as state syndic of the knighthood, he no longer wanted to work for the duke as before, to avoid a conflict of interests to avoid. Nevertheless, the king appointed him his councilor in 1762. From 1763 he received a ducal pension again.

Cirsovius then worked in particular as a country syndic. He tried to set up a fire guild for all goods of the duchies. Only when Caspar von Saldern and Friedrich Wilhelm Otte also campaigned for this could the project be implemented. In 1767 Cirsovius was appointed budget councilor. From 1768 he worked as legal counsel for the Herrenstein estate in the last of the trials for serfdom in Schmoel .

family

Cirsovius married Dorothea Friederike Stammetz on September 1, 1734 in Gnissau (born December 18, 1708 in Reinfeld, † October 1755 in Kiel). Her father Johann Carl Stammetz (1661–1729) worked as a pastor in Reinfeld from 1698 . From this marriage came three daughters and ten sons, including Johann Carl Cirsovius . Of the children, only one daughter and three sons survived their father.

In his second marriage, Cirsovius married Maria Martha Wibel on October 29, 1756 in Kiel (born December 29, 1728 in Breitenburg ; † October 11, 1786 in Kiel). She was the daughter of Johann Ludwig Wibel (1696–1743), who worked as chief inspector of the Breitenburg estate and was married to Maria, née Pistorius.

literature

• Leo Beckmann: Cirsovius, Leopold August . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , pages 73-75.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Leo Beckmann: Cirsovius, Leopold August . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , page 73.
2. ↑ Leo Beckmann: Cirsovius, Leopold August . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , pages 73-74.
3. ↑ Leo Beckmann: Cirsovius, Leopold August . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , page 74.
4. ↑ Leo Beckmann: Cirsovius, Leopold August . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , page 74.
5. ↑ Leo Beckmann: Cirsovius, Leopold August . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , page 74.
6. ↑ Leo Beckmann: Cirsovius, Leopold August . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , page 74.
7. ↑ Leo Beckmann: Cirsovius, Leopold August . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , page 74.
8. ↑ Leo Beckmann: Cirsovius, Leopold August . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , pages 74-75.
9. ↑ Leo Beckmann: Cirsovius, Leopold August . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , page 75.
10. ↑ Leo Beckmann: Cirsovius, Leopold August . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , page 73.
11. ↑ Leo Beckmann: Cirsovius, Leopold August . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 9 - 1991. ISBN 3-529-02649-2 , page 73.