Anton Matthias Sprickmann

Anton Matthias Sprickmann ( born September 7, 1749 Münster (Westfalen), † November 22, 1833 ) was a German writer and lawyer.

Life

Anton Matthias Sprickmann was born in 1749 in Münster, the son of the episcopal body physician Johann Christoph Sprickmann. His mother was Anna Maria Theresia Pictorius, daughter of the architect Gottfried Laurenz Pictorius Münster. He married Marianne Kerckerinck, daughter of Hermann Domsecretärs Kerckerinck. After her death he married Maria Antoinetta Oistendorf, daughter of Judge Theodor Hermann Oistendorf from Wolbeck.

Sprickmann taught in Münster, Breslau and Berlin, law and history, and was 1812-1819 friend and supporter of the later to become a writer Annette von Droste zu Hulshoff.

His son Christoph Bernhard Sprickmann Kerkerinck (1776-1852) was also a lawyer and has taught at the University of Münster as a professor of criminal law (by its provisional closure in 1818 ). From him the family Sprickmann Kerkerinck comes from.

In his literary work Sprickmann was close to the Göttingen Grove as well as its German Reich and legal history took place in the professional world attention. The handwritten manuscript is in Sprick 's estate in the manuscript department of the University and Regional Library Münster. It still awaits further editing and publishing.

Sprickmann was a friend and admirer of Goethe. Together with the Princess Gallitzin he visited Goethe in Weimar in September 1785. Goethe called him - and other visitors - " interesting people " (Letter to gag on 18 November, 1785). Goethe also staged Sprick 's comedy " The Jewel " on April 30, 1800 in Weimar. Yet thanked 1827 Goethe in writing to Sprickmann for brought greetings.

Freemason and friend of Blucher

Sprickmann was also the founder of Münster Masonic " Friedrich to the drey bar". During his studies in Göttingen he had Freemasonry met and founded on October 1st, 1778, which still exists today Loge. Here he met the later Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, with whom his whole life a close friendship. Blücher moved on July 3, 1802 ( after the peace of Luneville ) as a Prussian lieutenant general with his troops in Munster, and was at times also Worshipful Master of the lodge Münster. Sprickmann allegedly harbored Blücher for Sprickmann a " great love ", and participated in the New Year's Eve 1814 the youngest son ( from his second marriage ), the Lützower hunters Hermann Sprickmann, with over the Rhine to the fight against Napoleon. Was originally in the box to been included golden circle in Göttingen on May 8, 1776 which excluded him on 3 February 1779 because he came to a lodge of strict Observance, namely the Masonic Lodge Wilhelm Wetzlar to the three helmets under the religious name from Imbre; he was then working for his rule at the local Imperial Chamber Court. Member of Wetzlar Freemasons were also other important personalities, the former assessor and later reformer Imperial Baron vom und zum Stein, with the Sprickmann befriended. From 1788-1799 Sprick 's brother, the architect of the Cathedral and Canon Bernhard Sprickmann was (1750-1810), also Grand Master in Münster. Later Sprickmann turned away from the Freemasons. 1782 Sprickmann became a member of the secret Illuminati order in Ingolstadt, founded by Professor Adam Weishaupt in 1776 and Chief of the Order of store Münster under the name of John Huss.

After Anton Matthias Sprickmann and " Sprickmann space " have been named in Munster " Sprickmann road " in Dortmund the " Sprickmannweg ". The " Sprickmann road " in Rheine, however, is named after his great-grandson, the Rheinermark Mayor Rudolph Sprickmann Kerkerinck (1848-1905); the " Sprickmann - Kerkerinck Street " in Emmerich am Rhein to his grandson magistrate Bernard Sprickmann Kerkerinck ( 1837-1915 ). Both descendants had rendered outstanding services to their respective communities.

Works

(Selection)

  • The natural daughter, comedy (1774 )
  • The poachers, operetta (1774 )
  • The bridal day, opera (1775 )
  • The birthday, opera (1775 )
  • Eulalia, tragedy (1777 )
  • The misconception Drama ( 1778)
  • The jewelry, comedy (1780 )
  • Anton Mathias Sprickmann reading book. Compiled and with an afterword by Walter Gödden and Jochen Grywatsch, Nylands Small Westphalian Library Volume 28, Bielefeld: 2011 ISBN 978-3-89528-844-9 Aisthesis.
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