Paul Burgermeister

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Paul Burgermeister , called von Deizisau (born March 30, 1661 in Geislingen an der Steige , † March 30, 1719 in Esslingen am Neckar ), was a German lawyer.

Life

Paul Burgermeister was a son of Johann Paul Burgermeister and his wife Anna, nee. Fincken. He suffered several accidents, the first as a toddler, when he was thrown from a "little farm" onto a stone and dislocated his hip. More falls followed later, one from a horse, one from a cornice. Apparently these accidents left permanent damage. He attended grammar school in Ulm and studied from 1680 in Wittenberg , later in Marburg and Strasbourg . In 1687 he married Maria Dorothea Schloßberger. His biological daughter died early, his son was stillborn, but five stepdaughters survived early childhood. On October 25, 1701, his house in Esslingen burned down; it was replaced by Hafenmarkt 7 in 1702 . In 1709 his first wife died of a stroke . He later married Helena Sophia Gruner, with whom he had two children.

Paul Burgermeister was legal advisor to the Free Imperial Knighthood in Swabia and Kocher, as well as the mayor of Esslingen and hospital bailiff. He was probably not in the best of health all his life, eventually sought medical help and then drew new hope, but died of pneumonia .

Ludwig Carl Ditzinger gave his funeral sermon . It was titled The Sweetened Death Bitterness By Insurance Paradisischer Himmels-Freud. Except Lucae XXIII, v. 43 printed. In this sermon the symptoms of the illness that ultimately led to Burgermeister's death are described as follows: “Indeme / after frequent fatigue and all kinds of new fastidies and odious disputes / a new relapse occurred / with such vehemence that next to the febrile Shudder and heat / an uncomfortable tears and extremely difficult short breath tired him so much from day to day / that [...] he finally had to worry about life. [...] How he then fell into a deadly slumber [...] "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Eva-Maria Moll, causes of death in Ulm funeral sermons of the 16th and 18th centuries , Diss. Ulm 2007, pp. 74-76; Moll's biographical information is based on Ditzinger's funeral sermon or is quoted from it.
  2. ↑ Andrea Steudle et al., Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany. Cultural monuments in Baden-Württemberg. Volume 1.2.1. City of Esslingen am Neckar , Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7995-0834-6 , p. 123
  3. ↑ Life data  in the German Digital Library
  4. ^ Eva-Maria Moll, Causes of Death in Funeral Sermons in Ulm in the 16th and 18th Centuries , Diss. Ulm 2007, p. 15
  5. ↑ Quoted from: Eva Maria Moll, Causes of Death in Ulm Funeral Sermons of the 16th and 18th Centuries , Diss. Ulm 2007, p. 39
personal data
SURNAME Mayor, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1661
PLACE OF BIRTH Geislingen an der Steige
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1719
Place of death Esslingen am Neckar