Rudolf August Nolte

Rudolf August Nolte (born January 8, 1703 in Schöningen ; † September 14, 1752 in Wolfenbüttel ) was a Brunswick lawyer and local historian.

Live and act

Rudolf August Nolte was a son of Paul Martin Nolte (* 1668), rector of the Schöningen grammar school, from his second marriage to Elisabeth Dorothea Büttner. After completing his training at grammar school, he studied law at the University of Helmstedt from 1722 onwards , and also dealt with history and, as a candidate for rights in 1727, published a "Sex History of von Veltheim".

In addition to his work as a lawyer in Wolfenbüttel, he published various legal and historical treatises. A treatise published in 1741, in which he represented the Prussian claims to Silesia and Lusatia, was confiscated in Helmstedt and Saxony and Nolte was sentenced to arrest. From the Prussian side he was forbidden to enter the Brandenburg area. But a few months later the sentence was overturned.

Nolte moved to Harbke in Brandenburg and arranged the archive of the von Veltheim family , which was affected by a fire in 1731. After 6 years, on January 16, 1748, he was employed as a registrar at the ducal state archives in Wolfenbüttel, in particular to look after the trial files.

Works (selection)

• Editor of the Commercium Litterarium Clarorum Virorum collection of letters . Braunschweig, Volume 1 1737, Volume 2 1738 ( online edition )
• Summaria recensio praetensionum sacrae regiae Maiestatis Prussicae, […], et Marchionis Brandenburgensis in quosdam Silesiae et Lusatiae tractus filo historico deducta. Wolfenbüttel 1741.

literature

• Paul Zimmermann :  Nolte, Rudolf August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, p. 763 f.
• Dieter Lent: Nolte, Rudolf August. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 528-529 .