Sophus Schmidt

Christian Dietrich Sophus Schmidt (born December 17, 1792 in Suderburg , † April 19, 1841 in Celle ) was a German liberation fighter, landowner and administrative lawyer in the Kingdom of Hanover.

Life

Sophus Schmidt was the son of the early deceased landowner Carl Ludwig Schmidt in Suderburg and his wife Margaretha Elisabeth Schmidt born. Koellmann. His guardian was the mayor Willrich in Uelzen. He studied law at the Universities of Heidelberg and Göttingen . In Heidelberg he first joined the Landsmannschaft der Guestphalen and then became a member of the Corps Hannovera Heidelberg . After moving to Göttingen, he immediately became a member of the Corps Hannovera Göttingen . During his studies he was called The Great Sophus by his fellow students on the pages of their records . According to the tradition of the studbooks, he was an unusually good fencer and a strong personality in his day. In 1813 he pushed through some of the Hanoverians in Göttingen that they declared themselves from club to corps . The duel between him and Count Eduard von der Schulenburg , which is recorded in the Göttingen university court files, caused a stir at this time . Both duelists temporarily received the Consilium abeundi from the university . He took part in the Wars of Liberation (most recently as a lieutenant) in the Lüneburg battalion. As a cornet he single- handedly captured a French courier who was important for the battle on the Elbe and thus obtained crucial information for the battle of the Göhrde . In 1814 he retired from military service. He entered the Hanoverian administrative service and initially became an official auditor, soon afterwards an official clerk in Hanover . Münden . From 1826 to 1830, Sophus Schmidt was an official assessor in the Bleckede office . Due to a serious illness, he then retired, which he spent in Celle. He was the heir and owner of the Allodial estate in Suderburg.

Schmidt married Christiane Friederica born in November 1815. Osiander, the daughter of the court counselor and physician Friedrich Benjamin Osiander , with whom he had four sons and three daughters.

literature

• Dieterich Christian Sophus Schmidt , in: New Nekrolog der Deutschen , Volume 19, 1841, Part 1, No. 137, p. 437 ff. ( Digitized version )
• Heinrich Ferdinand Curschmann : Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera (1809-1899). Göttingen 2002, No. 126

Individual evidence

1. ↑ enrolled in Heidelberg on October 23, 1810
2. ^ Matriculated January 8, 1812 in Göttingen
3. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 42 , 134.
4. ↑ Otto Deneke : Old Göttinger Landsmannschaften. Göttingen 1937, p. 84 ff.