Theodor Burchard Bartman

Death note 1786, Cologne

Theodor Burchard Bartman (born June 1, 1710 in Herbern , † February 23, 1786 in Cologne ) was a German lawyer and university professor in Cologne.

Life

He grew up as the eldest son Dietherich Herman Bartmans and his wife Johanna Bruns in Herbern. His father was a hunter in the service of Theodor Burchard von Merveldt zu Schloss Westerwinkel, who was raised to the rank of imperial count in 1726 . Merveldt also became Theodor Burchard's godfather.

At the age of sixteen he attended a Latin school and then began studying law at the then University of Cologne . There he embarked on an academic career and, among other things, dealt with the institutions and the Pandects of the Corpus iuris civilis . In 1735 he became a member of the law faculty as a tutor , and in 1738 he received his doctorate as a licentiate . In addition, he apparently worked very successfully as a lawyer and quickly gained reputation and wealth.

The Brabanter Hof, newly built by Bartman in 1752, Am Hof ​​20 and 22

In 1741 he married Elisabeth Theresia Velden. Her parents belonged to the wealthy Cologne merchant families and owned, among other things, the houses at Alter Markt No. 47 and 51 and Unter Käster 12 in the center of the old town. In 1748 the Bartman couple bought the houses at Am Hof ​​20 and 22 of the former palace of the Duke of Brabant , had them demolished and built a rococo-style seven-axis city palace there , the Palais Bartman .

In 1754 Bartman was referred to in the baptismal register of St. Laurentius as "juris utriusque licentiatur et advocatus celeberrimus". He continued his academic career and finally became Doctor juris utriusque and professor in 1756 as the successor to Gerhard Ernst Hamm (1692–1776). In 1777 he was also Fiscus and in 1769 and 1780 Dean of the Faculty of Law. In 1786 he died as the "local lawyers faculty, oldest professor and dean (...) in the 76th year of glorious age".

After his death and that of his wife (1788), the Bartman Palace was inhabited by their unmarried sons Theodor Hermann Joseph and Everhard Joseph Anton and their daughter Gertrud. The Cologne merchant Wilhelm Bartman was his grandson.

Works

• Disputatio juridica inauguralis ex jure publico de comitiis Imperii romano-germanici, ubi de calculo Minervae, de jure majorum et quandoque unanimium circa conclusa comitialia formanda suffragiorum , Cologne 1738
• Positiones ex universo jure (together with Thomas Dolleschall), Cologne 1783

literature

• Bartmann, Karl: On the history of the Bartmann family from Herbern. Wuppertal 1992
• Historical archive of the city of Cologne : W * 278, W * 263, W * 279/11 + 12, University No 275 Bl. 1–12
• Historical archive of the city of Cologne: Register of the University of Cologne, Vol. V
• Hermann Keussen : The old University of Cologne , Creutzer, Cologne 1934
• Hans Vogts : The art monuments of the city of Cologne , Vol. II, IV, Dept. The profane monuments, Schwann, Düsseldorf 1930
• Death note from the Christan Everaertische Buckdruckerey at St. Laurenz, Cologne 1786