Christopher Springer (abt. 1592 - 1669)

Born about 1592 in Germany

Husband of Unknown (Unknown) Springer — married 1645 in Wismar, Mecklenburg, Vorpommern, Germany

Husband of Beata (Salina) Springer — married 16 Oct 1654 in Stockholm, Sweden

Descendants

Died 1669 at about age 77 in Sweden

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Biography

Disambiguation

It has been proven that the genealogical book by Moses C. Springer (see below) was a complete fraud.^[1] He is being detached from Christoph Springer and Elsie Wehrhahn as the lineage cannot be proven.

It has been proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that Charles Springer (1658-1738) and his father Christopher Springer (1592-1669), were not the descendants of anyone named Christopher Christian Christlieb Springer (1550-1630) and Elsie Wehrhahn (see Baldwin Maull's Introduction to his "Charles Springer's Family in Swedish History", published by the Delaware Swedish Colonial Society in Wilmington, 1978, for detailed information and proof refuting the imagined and fictitious claims first made in 1881 by Moses Springer's book and reprinted by Scribner's New York in 1917, etc.)

Career

Christopher Springer had 40 years Swedish government service beginning in 1629. He was a musician and also received a salary as a member of the Secretariat of the Treasurer's office. In addition, he was an interpreter, and a Judge of the County of Upland and a Referendary of the Land Revenue office. At the time of his death, he was the Archives Inspector of the Royal Exchequer.

Sources

1. ↑ Rubincam, Milton, Esq. The Springer Genealogy: A Critical Review. The American Genealogist. Volume 18. 1941. pg 91. $

Known Fraud:

• A Genealogical Table and History of the Springer Family, in Europe and North America, for Eight Centuries, From the Earliest German Princes, authored by Moses C. Springer (1881), page 142-44.