Heinrich Bacmeister (1618 - 1692)

Born 14 Jul 1618 in Lübeck, Freie und Hansestadt, Heiliges Römisches Reich

Husband of Maria Margaretha (Keller) Bacmeister — married 1674 in Stuttgart, Württemberg, Heiliges Römisches Reich

Descendants

Died 2 Jan 1692 at age 73 in Stuttgart, Württemberg, Heiliges Römisches Reich

Heinrich Bacmeister is Notable.

Biography

Heinrich was born in 1618, son of the Lüneburg syndic Heinrich Bacmeister (1584-1628) and Sara Dorothea Reiser (1599-1634), daughter of the Lübeck syndic Heinrich Reiser,

Heinrich Bacmeister, was first married to Anna Barbara Seefried (1629-1676), daughter of the mayor of Nördlingen, Johann Georg Seefried.

With her he had eight children,

1. Henrich Bacmeister (1853 - )^{[1] [2]}
2. Barbara Elisabeth Bacmeister (1655 - 1655) ^[3]
3. Lukas Bacmeister (1657 - 1658) ^[4]
4. Eberhard Bacmeister (1659 - 1742) became the princely East Frisian personal physician as well as a government and senior consistorial councilor in Aurich . ^[5]
5. Sara Bacmeister, (1661 - 1725) ^[6]
6. Anna Barbara Bacmeister (1663 - )
7. Johanna Dorothea (1667 - ) ^[7]
8. Johann Jacob Bacmeister (1671 - 1671)

After the death of his first wife, Heinrich Bacmeister married Maria Margarethe Keller (1640–1689), daughter of the secret secretary Johann Christoph Keller, who bore him three more sons.

1. Christoph Heinrich Bacmeister (1676 - ). ^[8]
2. Johann Fridrich Bacmeister (1678 - ). ^[9]
3. Lucas Gottfried Bacmeister (1681 - ).
4. Philipp Jacob Bacmeister (1683 - ).
5. Benjamin Bacmeister (1688 - 1688).

Heinrich was mainly raised and taught by relatives due to the early death of his father. His uncle Petrus Krüger, pastor at the main church in Kiel, took him in at the age of 13 and was his private tutor until 1636.

Heinrich then went on a trip to Europe with Junkers from a friend's family, the von Marschalck family from Hechthausen, in order to study law at the universities of Cologne, Leiden, Utrecht, Oxford, Paris, Orleans and Seaumur.

After three years he returned to Germany, was briefly taken on by the von Marschalck family as a private tutor at the Hutloh manor and in return received further financial support from this family in order to be able to continue his studies.

In 1640 he went with his cousins ​​Balthasar and Jürgen von Marschalck to the Knights' Academy in Soröe on the island of Zealand in Denmark, where they remained until 1643. Bacmeister then went back to the University of Utrecht, but fell critically ill there and returned to Hutloh again to convalesce.

After his recovery, he volunteered as an auditor for the German regiment set up by Berthold Heinrich von Bülow, which served on the side of the Swedish army during the Franco-Swedish War (1635-1648). Bacmeister remained loyal to this association until his honorable abdication in 1650.

Committed to Nördlingen as a result of his previous regimental deployment, he was now looking for a new challenge there, even as a newly married man. In 1652 he was appointed bailiff to Neuenburg am Rhein by the Duke Eberhard III. von Württemberg.

After the death of his brother Lucas Bacmeister (1622-1655), he took over his vacant position as university secretary at the University of Tübingen. He remained there until 1672 despite an offer from Margrave Friedrich VI von Baden-Durlach to take up a position as chancellery director in Immendingen.

After obtaining his doctorate in both rights relatively late on February 2, 1671 at the age of almost 53, he became a judicial councilor in the same year and only one year later he was promoted to Oberjustizrat and Kammerprokurator. In this function, the duke transferred him to Stuttgart, from where he attended, among other things, the meeting of the Swabian, Bavarian and Franconian district estates in 1676, which discussed the improvement of coinage.

This also gave him the opportunity to take care of his cousin Johann von Bacmeister, who had just returned from the University of Strasbourg. After his father Johann Bacmeister's sudden poverty, he was in urgent need of scholarships and job placement for his further legal career.

Heinrich Bacmeister passed away in 1692.

Works

• Delibata Iuris ex Libro XLVIII. Digestorum / Quae … Praeside Wolfgang-Adamo Lauterbach … Publico Eruditorum Examini, ad diem Novembris, horis locisq[ue] consuetis, subjicit Henricus Backmeister …. - Tubingae : Cellius, 1658
• Ad lib. III. Digest. tit. III. 1663 (Dissertation),
• De palmario advocatorum, 1671 (Dissertation);

Sources

1. ↑ Baptism record of Henrich Bacmeister, 1653, identifies as his father Henricus Bacmeister "Deutschland, ausgewählte evangelische Kirchenbücher 1500-1971," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP2B-X8FK : 27 October 2021), Henrich Bacmeister, 24 Feb 1653; images digitized and records extracted by Ancestry; citing Baptism, Neuenbürg, Neuenbürg, Württemberg, Deutschland, Neuenbürg, German Lutheran Collection, various parishes, Germany.
2. ↑ Marriage record of his son Heinrich Backmeister and Anna Margretha Caspar, 1685, identifies his father as Heinrich Backmeister "Deutschland Heiraten, 1558-1929", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J4JT-LFM : 27 October 2021), Anna Margretha Caspar in entry for Heinrich Backmeister, 1685.
3. ↑ Günther Schweizer, Menschen und Familien in Tübingen, Eine genealogische Datenbank, 2019 (https://www.tuebingen.de/Dateien/Stadtarchiv/Genealogische_Datenbank_Schweizer.pdf)
4. ↑ Günther Schweizer, Menschen und Familien in Tübingen, Eine genealogische Datenbank, 2019 (https://www.tuebingen.de/Dateien/Stadtarchiv/Genealogische_Datenbank_Schweizer.pdf)
5. ↑ Baptism record of his son Eberhardus Bacmeister, 1659, Identifies his parents as Heinrich Bacmeister ans Anna Barbara, "Deutschland, ausgewählte evangelische Kirchenbücher 1500-1971," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPP5-CJFT : 27 October 2021), Eberhardus Barßmeinster, 9 Sep 1659; images digitized and records extracted by Ancestry; citing Baptism, Tübingen, Tübingen, Württemberg, Deutschland, Tübingen, German Lutheran Collection, various parishes, Germany.
6. ↑ Baptism record of his daughter Sara Bacmaster, 1661, identifies her parents as Henrich Backmeister and Anna Barbara, "Deutschland, ausgewählte evangelische Kirchenbücher 1500-1971," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPP5-26FK : 27 October 2021), Sara Backmeister, 23 Nov 1661; images digitized and records extracted by Ancestry; citing Baptism, Tübingen, Tübingen, Württemberg, Deutschland, Tübingen, German Lutheran Collection, various parishes, Germany.
7. ↑ Günther Schweizer, Menschen und Familien in Tübingen, Eine genealogische Datenbank, 2019 (https://www.tuebingen.de/Dateien/Stadtarchiv/Genealogische_Datenbank_Schweizer.pdf)
8. ↑ Baptism record of his son Christoph Heinrich Backmeister, 1676, identifies his parents as heinrich Bacjmeister and Maria Margaretha "Deutschland, ausgewählte evangelische Kirchenbücher 1500-1971," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP2K-8J4W : 25 October 2021), Christoph Heinrich Backmeister, 4 Aug 1676; images digitized and records extracted by Ancestry; citing Baptism, Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Württemberg, Deutschland, Stuttgart, German Lutheran Collection, various parishes, Germany.
9. ↑ Baptism record of his son Johann Fridrich Backmeist, 1678, identifies his parents as Heinrich Backmeist and Maria Margretha, "Deutschland Geburten und Taufen, 1558-1898", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N58T-8Z4 : 25 October 2021), Johann Fridrich Backmeist, 1678.

• Heinrich Bacmeister Wikipedia page (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Bacmeister)