Samuel Wilhelm Oetter

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Samuel Wilhelm Oetter (born December 25 or 26, 1720 in Goldkronach ; † January 7, 1792 in Markt Erlbach ) was a Protestant theologian , heraldist , numismatist and historian .

Life

Oetter's father was Johann Heinrich Oetter, governor as well as councilor and mezger in Goldkronach. From the elementary school in Goldkronach, SW Oetter came to the seminar in Bayreuth and at the beginning of 1736 to the grammar school . When the University of Erlangen was inaugurated on April 3, 1743, Oetter was one of its first students. History had been his favorite subject since he was at school. The scientific meticulousness and attention to detail developed in his later writings is attributed to the relatively short stay at the university.

As early as 1744, when he was still studying in Erlangen, he was commissioned to provisionally hold the vice rectorate at the grammar school there , and on May 25 of the following year he was appointed vice rector himself. In 1745 he became vice rector at the grammar school in his place of birth, Goldkronach . As a Protestant clergyman, he was active in various places. In 1749 he became pastor in Linden , and in 1756 he was ennobled to the imperial court palatinate count . In 1762 he moved to Markt Erlbach, where he took up the position of pastor and became the historiographer of the Princely House of Ansbach . In 1767 he became a member of the Brandenburg-Bavarian Consistorial Council and in 1770 also a member of the Margravial Brandenburg-Ansbach Consistorial Council. Oetter was honored as a member of several societies for science and the arts, in 1763 he also became a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . He conducted extensive correspondence with academics and statesmen of all denominations. Among them was the royal Prussian state, war and cabinet minister, Count von Hertzberg , with whom he was in continuous correspondence for 37 years. After Oetter had contracted a troublesome stomach disease, he resigned from his pastoral office in 1789. His suffering is said to have been caused by sitting too long while studying and writing. He died three years later.

69 scientific publications are known of him; He also left numerous manuscripts that came into the possession of his eldest son, Friedrich Wilhelm Oetter (1754-1824). He published a biography of him (see below: Literature ), but did not comply with the public request to publish the letters from his father's correspondence.

Honors

Oetter was honored by the following companies by being appointed as a member:

Works

  • Explanation of an extremely rare coin from the Archbishop of Cologne, Piligrim, around the years 1024-1034. At the same time, those who understand coins are given two very rare and remarkable Arabic coins for investigation. Nuremberg 1748 ( e-copy ).
  • Collection of various reports from all parts of the historical sciences.
    • First volume, along with a complete register and a preface from the true origin of the sovereign state, Mr. Andr. Elias Roßmanns, ICti, Sr. Hochfürstl. Pass by the Margrave of Brandenburg Bayreuth Hofrath, public teacher of their rights and history at the Hochfürstliche Friederichs Universität zu Erlangen. Erlangen and Leipzig 1749 ( e-copy ).
  • Historical library in which all kinds of articles from all parts of historical science are communicated.
    • First part, Nuremberg 1752 ( e-copy ).
    • Second part, Nuremberg 1753 ( e-copy ).
  • Attempt of a history of the Burggraven zu Nürnberg and later Markgraven zu Brandenburg in Franconia, confirmed by coins, documents and seals.
    • First attempt, from Konrad first Burggraven Zollerischen Staams up to B. Friedrich III .. Frankfurt and Leipzig 1751 ( E-Copy ).
    • Second attempt, from 1242 to 1273 . Frankfurt and Leipzig 1753 ( e-copy ).
    • Third attempt, from 1273 to 1276 . Onolzbach 1758 ( e-copy ).
  • Investigation of the question: Why did Emperor Herod let the Savior put on a white dress? . Nuremberg 1761 ( e-copy ).
  • Weekly coat of arms amusement , 1. – 6. Piece. Augsburg 1761-1764.
  • Reprint of a letter to ST Herr Reichshofrath, Baron von Senckenberg, in which, among other things, the question is not examined: Why d. K. Friedrich II. To whom Ministerialibus Ducatus Brunsvicensis Iura Ministerialum Imperii had given? Frankfurt 1765 ( e-copy ).
  • Attempt a founded message from the Ministerialibus Imperii . Frankfurt and Leipzig 1766. ( E-copy )
  • New conjectures on which thereby for a way the grävlich Zollerische Hauß to the Burgravthum Nuremberg and at the same time to other dominions in francs chiefly of to the Voigthei over the Monastery Monk Aurach Being now reaches . Hof 1773 ( e-copy ).
  • Historical news of the house and coat of arms of Mr. Riedesel, Freyherrn von und zu Eisenbach, etc. Tübingen 1778 ( E-Copy ).
  • Historical consideration of the Hohenlohe coat of arms. With six copper plates. Nuremberg 1780 ( e-copy ).
  • Explanation of the name of the royal residence town of Onoldsbach and other places which were named by the brooks. In addition to an appendix, in which some places are explained, which have their names from Bruck and Fürt. Frankfurt and Leipzig 1782 ( e-copy ).

literature

  • BSB: Oetter, Samuel Wilhelm; 1720-1792.
  • Siegfried Hänle:  Oetter, Samuel Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, pp. 562-564.
  • Clemens Alois Baader : Lexicon of deceased Bavarian writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . Volume 1, Part II: M - Z , Augsburg and Leipzig 1824, pp. 103-109.
  • Friedrich Willhelm Oetter : Some news of the life, character and writings of the former reverend and highly learned Mr. Samuel Willhelm Oetter Imperial Court and Count Palatine, High Princely Brandenburg Onoldsbach and Bayreuth Consistoral Council and Pastor in Markt Erlebach, Historiographus and various academies and learned societies Raths and members etc. Market Erlbach 1792 ( e-copy ).
  • Johann Georg Dürrschmidt and Friedrich Wilhelm Anton Layritz: Description of the Royal Prussian parish of Goldkronach in the Principality of Bayreuth in statistical, topographical, historical, oryctological and literary terms . Bayreuth 1880, pp. 187-191.
  • Rotermund: Oetter, Samuel Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste , edited by SJ Ansch and JG Gruber. Third Section: O - Z , First Part: O - Odyssey . Leipzig 1830, p. 267.
  • Gert Oswald: Lexicon Heraldry . VEB Bibliographische Institut Leipzig, 1984.
  • Otter, Samuel Wilhelm. In: Pierer's Universal Lexicon of the Past and Present . 4th edition, Twelfth Volume, Altenburg 1861, 5.514.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register ev-luth Pfarramt Markt Erlbach, 1792, p. 339
  2. ^ Clemens Alois Baader : Lexicon of deceased Bavarian writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . Volume 1, Part II: M - Z , Augsburg and Leipzig 1824, pp. 103-109.
  3. ↑ Chronik der Teutschen , 38th piece, September 30, 1807, p. 308 below

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personal data
SURNAME Oetter, Samuel Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German heraldist and Count Palatine
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1720 or December 26, 1720
PLACE OF BIRTH Goldkronach
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1792
Place of death Erlbach market