Paul Vermehren (lawyer)

Paul Vermehren (* around 1660 in Lübeck ; † 1729 in Leipzig ) was a German lawyer and from 1715 as the electoral Saxon chief post director responsible for the entire postal system in Saxony .

Live and act

Vermehren came from Lübeck, where his family had come from Antwerp around 1600 as religious refugees. His father of the same name was a silk merchant, his brother Michael became a pastor. After visiting the Katharineum where have survived for 1675 and 1677 two Latin words from him, he went to the University of Leipzig and took various Cavalier traveling as companions young nobleman.

Saxon post mile pillars

He became royal Danish legation secretary and was part of the Danish delegation to the Peace of Rijswijk in 1697. A little later he came to Dresden with Baron Woldemar von Löwendal (1660-1740). He entered the Saxon service in 1709 and was initially a Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Commissioner . In 1715 he was appointed as the successor to Christian Leonhardi as the Saxon Chief Postal Director. During his tenure, he arranged for Adam Friedrich Zürner to geometrically measure all postal routes , a task that was completed in 1721. As a result of this project, the erection of stone post mile columns in Saxony began in 1722 , indicating the distance of 1, ½ and ¼ post miles. He was able to successfully prevent the plan to move the Oberpostamt from Leipzig to Dresden. He concluded various postal agreements, including in 1718 with Prussia .

In addition to his professional activity, he emerged as the author of sacred sonnets .

Fonts

• Jesus and His Church: from the Sunday and feast day gospels, also from the stories of the apostles, in hundreds of comparative suns decorated with so many coppers. Winckler, Dresden 1713
• Biblical picture and teaching catechißmus, according to which 5 main pieces of the same from all kinds of copies, comparisons, etc. Proverbs d. Salvation. Written together, u. in 222 pictures, sensory pictures, etc. Sonnetten / with the relevant comments ... In addition to a preface ... Valentin Ernst Löschern . Boetius in Comm., Leipzig 1718
• Hundreds of meaningful and instructive comparative sonnets about the Sunday and feast day gospels, same the story of the apostles: About which at the same time two hundred biblical histories from the Old and New Testament in copper engraving, as well as aiming at them Meaning-images and their associated superscripts and subscripts. Second edition. Boetius, Leipzig 1721

Digitized copy of the Berlin State Library for VD 18 -digital

literature

• Entry. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 47, Leipzig 1746, sheet 0652.
• Johann Henrich von Seelen: Athenae Lubecenses . Volume 2, Petrus Boeckmann, Lübeck 1720, pp. 114–124 ( Google book in Google book search).

Web links

Commons : Paul Vermehren  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Publications by and about Paul Vermehren in VD 18 .