Traugott Andreas Biedermann

Traugott Andreas Biedermann , from 1802 Freiherr von Biedermann (born November 29, 1743 in Annaberg , † November 2, 1814 in Dresden ) was a German politician and legal scholar .

Life

Traugott Andreas Biedermann was the tenth child of Johann August Biedermann. After attending the Latin school in his hometown, Biedermann studied law at the University of Leipzig from September 1759 . In 1764 he moved to the University of Frankfurt / Oder and in 1769 to the University of Halle . There, he finished two years later his studies by the doctor of the rights of his doctorate was. The dissertation was entitled Dissertatio Inauguralis Iuris Publ. Eccles. De Iure Reformandi Territoriali Ad Tres Religiones In Imperio RG Receptas Haud Restricto, Ad Verba Finalia Art. VII. PO

During this time Biedermann worked on the Halle Scholars newspapers . He was also the tutor of a son of a secret finance council and then a son of State Minister Ernst Wilhelm von Schlabrendorf . After receiving his doctorate, he returned to Leipzig and published another dissertation there in 1772. Since that year he worked at the university as a private lecturer . He read German constitutional, private and feudal law.

In 1777 Biedermann was appointed both as an upper court judge and as an advocate for the consistory and also a consultant for the merchants. He stayed that way for five years. During this time he also worked on August Friedrich Schott's Unpartheyischer Critik , which dealt with legal works at the time and the situation at Leipzig University.

In 1783 Biedermann ended his activity at the university, because he was appointed to the civil service in Dresden , with which he exchanged his scholarly and civil servant careers. In that year he was appointed to the court and judicial councilor of the Elector of Saxony . In 1785 he was also secret cabinet secretary in the domestic department. From 1801 he acted as director of the third department in the secret finance college and was also a privy councilor . There he was promoted to vice-president and later to first president.

Because Biedermann was in the higher civil service deserving and faithful servant, but also because his mother by the Scottish Lindsay - Clan descended, raised him Franz II. 1802 in the baron . In 1807 Biedermann belonged to a commission that dealt with the consequences of the Napoleonic wars and how these consequences could be eliminated.

Biedermann was considered a servile, righteous official of high knowledge. He was also trusted by Elector Friedrich August III, later as Friedrich August I, first King of Saxony.

Biedermann died in Dresden in 1814. He reached the age of 70 and was buried in the Inner Neustädter Friedhof next to his wife, who died in 1793.

family

Traugott Andreas Biedermann's father Johann August Biedermann (1701–1762) worked as general excise inspector, in-house counsel, councilor and judge in Annaberg. His wife Dorothea Sophia, née Stock, lived from 1703 until after 1787.

Biedermann had the following siblings:

• Dorothea Magdalena (1726 to before 1729)
• Johanna Dorothea (* 1727)
• Johann August (* 1729)
• Johann Wilhelm (1731–1782), theologian and private tutor
• Johann Andreas (1733–1759), lawyer
• Christian Gottlob (1735–1811), legal trainee, general excise inspector, city judge and mayor in Annaberg
• Concordia Sophia (1737–1781)
• Juliane Christiane (1739-1814 / 1827)
• Ehrenhold Friedrich (1741–1794), notary

In 1785 Biedermann married Caroline Dorothea, a born Richter, daughter of a businessman . She lived from 1757 to 1793. The marriage had the following two sons and daughters:

• Gustav Heinrich (1789–1862), lawyer, governor and honorary citizen of Annaberg
• Moritz Wilhelm (1792–1812), lieutenant
• Cäcilie Sophie Elisabeth (1790–1867)
• Adelhaide Caroline (1791–1839)

Works

independent works

• De iure reformandi teoritoriali ad tres religiones in imperio RG receptas haud restricto ad verba finalia art. VII, PO (Hall 1771)
• De visitatione et revisione camerali tamquam causa regiminis vi potestatis inspectoriae instituenda (Leipzig 1772)

Cooperation

• August Friedrich Schott : Impartial criticism of the latest legal writings: as well as reliable news about the current state of the Leipzig Academy (Leipzig 1768 to 1782)

literature

• Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland or Lexicon of the now living German writers , Volume 1, 1796, p. 289 f. ( Online ); Vol. 17, 1820, p. 166 ( online )
• Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung, No. 174/1819, p. 543 ( online )

Web links

• Ulrike Knoll: Biedermann, Traugott Andreas Freiherr von . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
• Traugott Andreas Biedermann in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig