You are bidding on one handwritten document of the Higher Regional CourtPaderborn from 1833.
With his own signature of the Chief President Diederich Friedrich Carl von Werdendal (1767-1842), who also as botanist worked.
With countersignature by the secretary and office inspector HofratCarl George Klink (1761-1836), holder of the Order of the Red Eagle 4th Class (obituary in: New Necrology of the Germans, 14. Year, 1836, 2. Part, p. 835f.).
Dated Paderborn, the 17th September 1833.
Aimed at the Justice Commissioner Gottlieb Wilhelm Krönig (d. 1842) in Paderborn as Authorization of Count Ferdinand von derschulenburg-Oeynhausen in Paderborn, which is located in oneLegal dispute with The Baron von Oeynhausen was at Gut Grevenburg near Steinheim, that is Friedrich Adolf Ludwig von Oeynhausen (1795-1871), geognast and writer, and his important twin brother, the mountain captain Karl von Oeynhausen (1795-1865), after whom the city of Bad Oeynhausen was named.
Concerns the transmission of the final invoice for the "costs of your client", which amount to 2 Reichstaler, 26 Silbergroschen and 2 Pfennige. However, an advance cost of 20 (!) Reichstaler was paid. The overpaid advance can be received back against a receipt.
Scope: one of four pages described (31.5 x 19.8 cm).
Condition: Document folded, with small holes in the fold. The second (blank) sheet with a slanted cutout. Please also note the pictures!
Internal note: Oeynhausen folder XVI, 17-35 autograph autograph
About Diederich Friedrich Carl von Besserndal (source: wikipedia):
Diederich Friedrich Carl von Besserndal (also Diedrich Friedrich Karl von Besserndal, * 24. September 1767 in Xanten; † 22. February 1842 in Paderborn) was a German botanist and lawyer who worked as police chief in Berlin and later as chief president of the Paderborn Higher Regional Court. His official botanical author abbreviation is “DFKSchltdl.”.
Origin: His parents were the district judge Franz Friedrich von Besserndal (* 11. October 1735; † 1791) and his wife Anna Catharina Schimmelkehtel (* 1749; † 13. March 1778). His brother Johann Georg Julius (1770–1833) became district president in Münster.
Life: Diederich Friedrich Carl von Besserndal studied jura at the University of Duisburg and then worked for further training and as a district judge at the regional courts in Kleve and Xanten.
Diederich Friedrich Carl von Besserndal lost his job after the left bank of the Rhine was occupied by French troops and moved with his family to Berlin in 1798, where he first became second city court director and later city court director and in 1811 became police chief as the successor to Karl Justus Gruner. Diederich Friedrich Carl von Besserndal, who had been interested in botany since his early youth and had built an extensive herbarium, regularly exchanged professional knowledge with the botanist Carl Ludwig Willdenow in Berlin, whose collections he made known after his death. In 1805 he became a full member of the Society of Friends of Natural Scientists in Berlin.
In 1816 he moved to Paderborn, where he worked as chief president of the Higher Regional Court from 1816 to 1841.
On the 28th. November 1820, under the presidency of Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck, he was given the academic nickname Sherardus under the matriculation number. In 1198 he was accepted as a member of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists.
After 20 years of working in the Paderborn Poor Commission, he was born on January 4th. He was made an honorary citizen of Paderborn in January 1838.
His correspondence includes letters to the natural scientist and poet Adelbert von Chamisso, the botanist Gustav Kunze and the theologian Johann Joachim Bellermann in their respective papers.
Family: Besserndal married on the 10th. November 1793 Katharina Margarete Bartels (1766–1797). The couple had a son:
Diederich Franz Leonhard von Besserndal (1794–1866), botanist ⚭ Ida Amalie Henriette Klug (* 1804)
A few weeks after the untimely death of his first wife, he married on the 15th. October 1797 her sister Sophie Charlotte Bartels (1774–1807). The couple had a daughter:
Friedrike Charlotte (* 15. October 1799; † 2. July 1875) ⚭ 1828 Baron Maximilian Friedrich Franz Joseph von Kleinsorgen (* 18. December 1802; † 22. March 1890)
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About the stellarium and arenarium species that are kept in the Willdenow collection. In: The Society of Natural Research Friends in Berlin Magazine for the latest discoveries in all of natural history. Volume 7, Berlin 1816, pp. 190–213.
Overview of the potentils stored in Willdenow's plant collection. In: The Society of Natural Research Friends in Berlin Magazine for the latest discoveries in all of natural history. Volume 7, Berlin 1816, pp. 283–297.