Matthias Nicolaus Braun

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Matthias Nicolaus Braun , also modernized Matthias Nikolaus Braun , (* 1684 ; † January 3, 1737 in Eisleben ) was a German lawyer. He was both rights doctor and office director of the county of Mansfeld in Eisleben and manor owner in Obertopfstedt .

Life

He was the son of the Protestant pastor Johann Sebastian Braun from Henschleben and Vehra, who died on July 3, 1712. According to family legend, he had noble ancestors who lived in Gispersleben near Erfurt and who had fallen into the peasant class through impoverishment.

His father had bought the manor in Obertopfstedt, especially the Unterhof or Wallhof, from the Electorate Court Marshal Hans Moritz von Brühl on Gangloffsömmern in 1698, which Matthias Nicolaus Braun inherited as his only son after the death of his father. At that time he was mostly in Jena as a doctor of law . His dissertation is entitled Dissertatio juris publici inauguralis de Romani Imperatoris maiestate praecipue reali et personali . He successfully defended this at the University of Jena in 1706 together with Wilhelm Hieronymus Brückner.

Because Obertopfstedt was too far from Jena, Braun sold the estate in 1713 to Johann Georg Hahn, the cantor in Gangloffsommern. However, it soon turned out that Hahn had taken over financially with the purchase and could not raise the purchase money on schedule. In addition, Hahn died and the debt claims fell on his heirs. Braun later achieved his reinstatement in the Obertopfstedt estate.

Matthias Nicolaus Braun left behind several legal writings.

family

Braun was married to Catharina Magdalena Braun. From this marriage the three sons Carl Adolph (born September 27, 1716 in Jena), Ferdinand August (born January 24, 1718 in Jena) and Johann Friedrich Braun (born January 10, 1722 in Jena) emerged. The former was elevated to the status of imperial baron in 1764 .

literature

  • Pastors' book of the ecclesiastical province of Saxony , Vol. 2, Leipzig 2004, pp. 25 and 29.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry at worldcat.org
  2. ↑ Jena , which flourished in 1743 , 1743, p. 172
personal data
SURNAME Braun, Matthias Nicolaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Braun, Matthias Nikolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, office director of the County of Mansfeld and manor owner
DATE OF BIRTH 1684
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1737
Place of death Eisleben