Sigemund Klose

Sigemund Klose's grave slab on the Nikolauskapelle in the old cemetery

Grave slab of Sigmund Klose, son of Sigismund Klose

Sigemund Klose (* 1623 in Breslau , † 1702 in Durlach ), also Sigmund Close the Elder. Ä. called, was a respected physician and margravial Baden body and court medic .

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In 1651 Sigemund Klose became a "Physicist" in Durlach . In this function he served as the personal physician to three margraves of the Baden-Durlach family . It was about the Margraves Friedrich V , Friedrich VI. and Frederick VII Magnus . Sigemund Klose also worked from 1666 to 1674 at the Durlach grammar school as a professor of natural science . Due to its prominent position as personal physician and professor, the Klose family were respected citizens of the city of Durlach.

His son Sigmund Klose d. J. (1676–1755) became a physician and, like his father, served as personal physician at the court of the margraves. The Klose family lived in Durlach. The family's former residential and office building from 1706 has been preserved to this day and is now a listed building .

Sigemund Klose's gravestone adorned with a coat of arms is located in Durlach on the old cemetery .

literature

• Siegmund F. Gehres: Small chronicle of Durlach: a contribution to the knowledge of German cities and customs. Biography of Dr. EL Posselt , along with several unprinted letters of the same and biographical reports from Durlach's memorable men. Volume 2, Braun, Karlsruhe 1827.
• Otto Konrad Roller : The inhabitants of the city of Durlach in the 18th century. Braun, Karlsruhe 1907, p. 379.
• Maria Elisabetha Fronhoffer: Klose family: fragments of a family history. In: Intelligence and Provincial Journal for Durlach. No. 2, 1992, pp. 19-23.

Web links

• Homepage of the database of cultural monuments Karlsruhe on the website of the city of Karlsruhe