Martin Schmeitzel

Martin Schmeitzel (born May 28, 1679 in Kronstadt , † July 20, 1747 in Halle ) was a German political scientist , historian and heraldist .

Life

The pastor's son at the Johanniskirche had already lost his father in early childhood. After going through the city school and grammar school in his hometown, he traveled to Hungary, Poland, Silesia and Saxony and moved to the University of Jena in January 1700 . There he frequented the lectures of Johann Paul Hebenstreit , Johann Kaspar Posner and Georg Adam Stuve . In 1702 he moved to the University of Wittenberg , moved on to the University of Greifswald, where he heard the lectures of Johann Friedrich Mayer and Johann Philipp Palthen and became an informator for a nobleman with whom he moved to the University of Halle in 1706 . In 1709 he had received an assignment to accompany two Swedish nobles to Germany, where he had the opportunity to visit the University of Copenhagen and Lund University over the summer .

With the nobles he returned to Halle and Jena, and since he had already given private lectures, he acquired the academic degree of Master of Philosophy in 1712 . With difficulty he was able to bring the nobles entrusted to him back to Sweden and got back to Jena himself with great difficulty. He continued his lectures in Jena, obtained permission to read aloud for universities as a Magister legens in 1716, became an adjunct in the philosophical faculty in 1720 , received an extraordinary professorship in philosophy in the department of geography there in 1721 and was entrusted with the inspection of the academic library.

After Nikolaus Hieronymus Gundling died, Schmeitzel moved to the University of Halle in 1731, where he became a royal Prussian court advisor and professor of constitutional law and history, which he remained until the end of his life from Steckfluss . In addition, Schmeitzel had also taken on organizational tasks at the Halle University and in 1743/44 he was the prorector of the Alma Mater . His thorough and scientific work exceeded the work of his contemporaries. He put a lot of effort into the origin of the heraldic pictures and tried to arrange them according to geometric shapes.

Schmeitzel was married twice. He entered into his first marriage in 1713 with Regina Elisabeth, the daughter of the Jena city judge Meyer. His three daughters Christiane Marie, Maria Dorothea and Johanna Katharina came from this marriage. He concluded his second marriage in 1730 with Anna Katharina (née Ehlingen; † 1745), widow of Apolda's superintendent Johann Friedrich Bauch.

Works

• Epistola B. Lutheri ad Joh. Honterum Reformatorem Corensem, primum ex autographo puzblicata. 1712
• Comment. De coroniis tam antiquis quam modernis. Jena 1713
• Sched. De Clenodiis et ritu inauguranti Reges Hungariae. Jena 1713
• Historical evidence again from the Jesuit Johann Kraus. 1717
• Diss. To Johannes Constans Elector Saxoniae ante mortem in castra pontificanum tranfierit? 1714
• Praecognita historiae civilis. Jena 1720
• Praecognita historiae ecclesiasticae. Jena 1721
• Diss. De natura et indole Heraldicae. 1720
• Instructions to a teacher and court master. Jena 1721
• Diss. Epistol. De statu ecclesiae Lutheranae in Transylvania. Jena 1722
• Progr. De uno eruditionis impedimento, quod ab ignorantia oeconomiae totius eruditionis suam ducit originem. Jena 1723
• Oratio inaugur. De titulo Imperatoris, quem Russorum fibi dari praetendit. 1723
• Introduction to the Wapenlehre cum fig. Jena 1723/1724 (2 editions)
• Introduction to the latest history of the world. Jena 1723
• Historical news of the Thorn riot. Jena 1725
• Demolition of a Colegii on the history of the city and the University of Jena. 1727
• Attempt a history of wisdom. Jena 1728
• Outline of a complete history of the empire. Jena 1728
• Introduction to state science in general, and especially to the knowledge of the noble states of Europe. Hall 1732
• Allecutio I. II. III. Ad Studiosos in Fridericana. Hall 1732
• Clever reading and converting at home, at university and while traveling. Hall 1737
• The Righteous Academicus. Hall 1738
• Instructions on how an academic student should properly organize his studies and life. 1735
• On the use and abuse of the coat of arms. 1737

literature

• Gustav Friedrich Hertzberg :  Schmeitzel, Martin . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 31, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 633 f.
• Schmeitzel, Martin. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 35, Leipzig 1743, columns 302-305.
• Johann Christoph von Dreyhaupt : Pagus Neletizi et Nudzici, or detailed diplomatic-historical description of the former primacy and Ertz-Stifft, but now secularized by the Duchy of Magdeburg, which belongs to the Duchy of Magdeburg, and of all the cities, palaces, offices, Manors, aristocratic families, churches, monasteries, parishes and villages, especially the cities of Halle, Neumarckt, Glaucha, Wettin, Löbegün, Cönnern and Alsleben; From Actis publicis and credible ... news, collected diligently, reinforced with many unprinted documents, adorned with copperplate engravings and abstracts, and provided with the necessary registers. Emanuel Schneider, Hall 1749/50. Vol. 2, p. 710, urn : nbn: de: gbv: 3: 1-135876
• Christoph Weidlich : Complete list of all on the Königl. Preussi. Friedrichs Universität zu Halle from its foundation to the present day of legal disputations and programs, with literary comments. In addition to the attached succession of all legal scholars of this famous university, and their brief biographies. Johann Christian Hendel , Halle, 1789

Web links

• Entry on Martin Schmeitzel in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis