Thomas Heinrich Gadebusch
Thomas Heinrich Gadebusch (born August 11, 1736 in Stolp in Western Pomerania , † April 2, 1804 in Stockholm ) was a German constitutional lawyer and historian in the service of Sweden. As a professor at the University of Greifswald , he dealt in particular with the constitutional law of Swedish Pomerania and the history of Pomerania . From 1797 until his death he worked in political offices in Stockholm.
Life
Gadebusch was born in 1736 in Stolp in Western Pomerania as the son of a cloth merchant. After his family moved, however, he grew up in Stralsund in Swedish Pomerania . After attending the Sundischen Gymnasium there , he studied from 1752 to 1755 at the University of Greifswald and then at the University of Göttingen . In 1758 he returned to Greifswald, where he received his master's degree in 1759. His life goal, a professorship at the Swedish-Pomeranian University of Greifswald, was only achieved after several unsuccessful attempts. In 1767 he completed his habilitation in Greifswald and became a private lecturer . In 1770 a chair for German and Pomeranian constitutional law was established, which he finally received in 1772. By then she had already published numerous publications on the history of Pomerania . In 1774, for example, he published the Wendisch-Rügianische Landgebrauch , a collection of the law applicable to Rügen written by Matthäus von Normann in the 16th century . For 22 years he lectured on constitutional law and the history of Pomerania. In 1786 he was rector of the university. In 1796 he was appointed by the Swedish government to a visitation commission in Pomerania and to the chancellery.
In 1797 he was appointed to Stockholm , where he first became a member of the General State Committee ("Rikets Allmänna Ärendens Beredning") and in 1798 a member of the Pomeranian Committee ("Pommerska Beredning"), of which he was a member until his death in 1804.
Gadebusch worked as a Freemason in Greifswald . After the death of Johann Carl Dähnert in 1785, he became the leading box master.
Gadebusch was married to the daughter of a Greifswald merchant and councilor. Several children were born from the marriage. The German-Baltic lawyer and historian Friedrich Konrad Gadebusch (* 1719; † 1788) was his uncle.
Importance and Estate
As a German in the Swedish service, Gadebusch was one of the founders of the history of Pomerania. His estate consisted exclusively of the comprehensive Collectio pommeranica that he had compiled, consisting of 279 volumes with manuscripts and documents on the history of Pomerania in the 17th and 18th centuries, which has since been stored as the Gadebusch Collection in the Stockholm Imperial Archives after it was left by the Swedish state on his death was triggered from the pledge of a private creditor for 600 Reichstaler .
Fonts
- Introduction to the history of Pomerania under its native hereditary princes . Greifswald 1759.
- Synchronistic tables on the history of Pomerania . Greifswald 1762.
- Collection of historical writings to promote history . Greifswald 1768.
- Wendish-Rügian land use . Greifswald 1774.
- Outline of Pomeranian history . Greifswald 1778.
- Collection for the knowledge of the Duchy of Pomerania . 2 volumes. Greifswald and Dessau 1783–1786.
- Swedish Pomeranian civics . 2 volumes. Greifswald 1786–1788. ( Vol. 1 , Vol. 2 googlebooks )
- Materials on the history and statistics of the Nordic countries, particularly Sweden . Berlin 1791/92.
- Journal of Pomeranian Collections . 1.1783-2.1786. ( Digitized by the Digital Library of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)
- as well as numerous translations
See also
literature
- Herrmann Müller: Gadebusch, Thomas Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, pp. 299-301.
- Fritz Petrick: Gadebusch, Thomas Heinrich (1736–1804) . In: Dirk Alvermann , Nils Jörn (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon für Pommern . Volume 2 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania. Series V, Volume 48.2). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne Weimar Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22541-4 , pp. 113–117.
Web links
- Literature about Thomas Heinrich Gadebusch in the state bibliography MV
- Gadebusch collection
- Parts of the Gadebusch collection on the server
Footnotes
- ↑ Rector's Chronicle of the University of Greifswald.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Theophilus Coelestinus Piper | Rector of the University of Greifswald 1786 |
Christian Ehrenfried Weigel |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gadebusch, Thomas Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German constitutional lawyer and historian in the Swedish service |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 11, 1736 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stolp , Western Pomerania |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 2, 1804 |
| Place of death | Stockholm |