Johann Christian von Hellbach 15 July 1757 – 18 October 1828) was a German lawyer and writer. He wrote extensively but not exclusively on history.[1]
Johann Christian von Hellbach | |
|---|---|
| Born | Johann Christian Hellbach 15 July 1757 |
| Died | 18 October 1828 (aged 71) |
| Occupation(s) | Lawyer writer historian |
| Spouse | Charlotte Friedericka Wilhelmina Ernestina von Berga (1789) |
Life
editJohann Christian Hellbach was born in Arnstadt, a small but locally important town in central Germany, which earlier in the century had been the home town of Johann Sebastian Bach. Hellbach's father was Ludwig Gottfried Hellbach.[2] At the local school Hellbach's teacher was the historian Johann Gottlieb Lindner. (In 1812 Hellbach would edit and publish Lindner's autobiography.[3]) On leaving school, between 1777 and 1780 Hellbach studied Jurisprudence, after which he lived in Arnstadt.
From 1788 he lived on his estate at Berga, roughly 100 km (60 miles) to the north. During this period he was also employed closer to Arnstadt, at Wechmar, working as Commission Secretary for the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen. In the end he returned to living full-time in Arnstadt, promoted to the post of Advocate and Legal Counsel for the Principality of Saxe-Meiningen.[4]
Personal
editHellbach married Charlotte Friedericka Wilhelmina Ernestina von Berga at his Berga estate on 17 May 1789.
Ennoblement
editOn 3 December 1819 Prince Günther Friedrich Carl confirmed and renewed the ancient nobility of Hellbach's family within Schwarzburg-Sondershausen.[5] In terms of the sources, it was at this point that the name "Hellbach" became "von Hellbach".
References
edit- ^ Klaus Reinhold (1999). "Arnstadts Chronisten und Dichter ..... Hellbach, Johann Christian von * 15.7.1757 Arnstadt † 22.10.1828" (PDF). Chronik Arnstadt: 704–2004: 1300 Jahre Arnstadt. Stadt Arnstadt. p. 58. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 December 2009. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
- ^ Jakob Dominikus: Erfurt und das Erfurtische Gebiet, 2nd part (1793), Page 52 (Digitalisat)
- ^ Johann Gottlieb Lindner; Johann Christian Hellbach (ed.) (1812). M. Johann Gottlieb Lindners kurze Selbstbiographie: mit Anmerkungen, einem Nachtrage und einigen Beylagen. Klüger.
{{cite book}}:|author2=has generic name (help) - ^ August Friedrich Schott: Bibliothek der neuesten juristischen Litteratur – für das Jahr 1787, Volume 5, Page 15, Leipzig 1787 (Digitalisat)
- ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: Neues allgemeines deutsches Adels-Lexicon, Volume 4 (1863), Page 291 (Digitalisat)
Hellbach wrote various legal books and others covering the history of Thuringia and, in particular, of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen.
- Handbuch des Rangrechts, Ansbach 1804, Digitalisat
- Archiv für die Geographie, Geschichte und Statistik der Grafschaft Gleichen und ihrer Besitzer, 2 Bände, Altenburg 1805, Band 1, Band 2
- Adels-Lexikon, 2 Bände, Ilmenau 1825/26 Band 1, Band 2
- Archiv von und für Schwarzburg, 1787, Digitalisat Nachtrag von 1789
- Historische Nachrichten von den thüringischen Bergschlössern Gleichen, Wachsenburg und Mühlberg, 1802, Digitalisat
- Grundriß der zuverlässigeren Genealogie des fürstlichen Hauses Schwarzburg, 1820
- Handbuch des Schwarzburg-sondershausener, besonders neueren Privatrechts, 1820
- Nachricht von der sehr alten Lieben Frauen-Kirche und von dem dabei gestandenen Jungfrauen–Kloster zu Arnstadt, 1821, Nachtrag von 1828
- Niklas Christoph Reichsfreiherr von Lynker: ein biographischer Versuch, Digitalisat