Wolfgang Meurer (Lieutenant Colonel)

Wolfgang Meurer (* around 1554 in Leipzig ; † February 17, 1663 ) was a lieutenant colonel and manor owner who gave the so-called Princely House and the adjacent garden to the University of Leipzig in 1648 .

Life

Princely house of Leipzig, state around 1870

He was a grandson of the Saxon pedagogue and doctor Wolfgang Meurer , who came from Altenberg in the Ore Mountains , and was born in the trade fair city of Leipzig. The doctorate in law and lawyer of the city of Hamburg , Philipp Meurer , was his uncle, to whose children, including Johann Christoph Meurer in Hamburg, there was a relatively close relationship, which is why he used them in 1638 to join his manor Strelln .

Wolfgang Meurer embarked on a military career in the service of Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony and was promoted to lieutenant colonel. When he got some money, he was able to acquire the Princely House in Leipzig in 1639, one of the most beautiful Renaissance buildings in the city, which he and the adjoining garden gave to the University of Leipzig on January 12, 1648, subject to the payment of an annual annuity, and to the Strelln manor withdrew, which he had bought in 1638. Increasing financial worries in old age meant that a few months before his death he had to sell this property to the Rittmeister von Arnstedt .

family

Wolfgang Meurer married the widowed Bartha von Krosigk, née von der Schulenburg, in 1653.

His only son Wolfgang Christoph Meurer survived him. He was in the Brandenburg military service and was stationed in Minden .

literature

Manfred Wilde : The knights and free estates in northern Saxony, their constitutional status, their settlement history and their owners , 1997.

Individual evidence

^ The University of Leipzig in the past and present , 1830, p. 142.
^ Peter Schwarz: The millennial Leipzig. From the beginning to the end of the 18th century . 1st edition. tape 1 . Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3-945027-04-2 , pp. 281 .

personal data
SURNAME	Meurer, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Electorate colonel and owner of the manor
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1554
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH	February 17, 1663

[1] The University of Leipzig in the past and present , 1830, p. 142.

[2] Peter Schwarz: The millennial Leipzig. From the beginning to the end of the 18th century . 1st edition. tape 1 . Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3-945027-04-2 , pp. 281 .