You bid handwritten letter around 1764.

Scope: 2 pages measuring 32.7 x 20.4 cm (with nice post horn watermark).

Concerns a "more than 100 year" old scholarship from the Möring or Möringen and Bacmeister families (probably in Lüneburg), the support of which is now to be used for Carl August Steinheil, born in 1747, who would like to study jura in two years.

This was a son of the duke. Wuerttemberg Government Council, oldest Secretarius' and Chief Taxator Friederich Albrecht Steinheil and Johanna Margaretha Herpfer (d. 1756) [[meant: Friedrich Albrecht Steinheil * Rappoldsweiler 13.8.1712 + Stuttgart 14.11.1783, government councilor and secret secretary, cop. to Stuttgart, married I. Marriage 1738 to Johanne Margaretha Herpfer * Stuttgart 31.3.1721 + 1756]], which in turn was a daughter of Veit Philipp Herpfer, Herzogl. Wuerttemberg. Secret Legation Council and District Directorial Envoy (d. 1743) and Johanna Catharina, b. Bacmeister (d. 1737, daughter of Jacob Adolph Bacmeister, d. 1722).

In addition to writing (pro memoria), the family line is also traced back to this same Carl August Steinheil, including the personal physician Matthäus Bacmeister (1580-1626) and the theologian Lucas Bacmeister (1530-1608).

Other surnames mentioned there: Kruse (from Doppmarck), Ellinger, Lübbing (wife of a Johannes Bacmeister)...

Undated, but the content dates from around 1764 (because Carl August Steinheil, who was born in 1747, would like to study in two years); I also have another letter on offer about this scholarship in connection with the Steinheil family, which is dated 1764.

Condition:Folded and slightly creased, with a tear in the fold and slight damage to the edges. Please also note the pictures!

About the Bacmeister family: Bacmeister, sometimes also written: Backmeister, Bakmester or Bacmester, is the name of an old German Lower Saxon family from the area around Goslar, Braunschweig and Lüneburg. For centuries it produced numerous well-known personalities, especially in the fields of Protestant theology, medicine and law. The Lower Saxon branches of the family belong to the so-called Pretty Families of the Electorate of Hanover.

At the same time I offer some more documents of the Bacmeister family!

About the Bacmeister family (source: wikipedia):

Bacmeister, sometimes also written: Backmeister, Bakmester or Bacmester, is the name of an old German Lower Saxon family from the area around Goslar, Braunschweig and Lüneburg. For centuries it produced numerous well-known personalities, especially in the fields of Protestant theology, medicine and law. The Lower Saxon branches of the family belong to the so-called Pretty Families of the Electorate of Hanover.

History: The family name points to an office that was supposed to ensure the supply of bread; An ancestor was probably the administrator of the tithe barn in the imperial palace of Goslar. In 1284 a Johann dictus Bacmeister was mentioned in a document in Goslar, i.e. a citizen of the city who had leased a mill for the city council and no longer held the office. Around 100 documents between 1284 and 1399 identify the dictus bacmeister as heads of the mint guild and as councilors in Goslar. The family then emigrated to Braunschweig, where a Hinrik Bacmeister was registered as a master baker at Güldenstraße 7 between 1407 and 1444. His grandson Ludeke Willm Bacmeister (* approx. After his son Johannes (* before 1500) had made money and honors in the brewing trade in Lüneburg, his son Lucas Bacmeister the Elder was the first in the family to embark on an academic career. In addition, this Lucas Bacmeister is considered to be the actual progenitor of the family that has survived to this day and was organized into a family association[1].

Since Lucas the Elder had moved his workplace to Rostock, where he taught as a professor of theology at the university there, several Württemberg lines have emerged from this new Rostock line over the generations, although only the descendants of the Chamber Procurator Heinrich Bacmeister still exist, as well as an important Hanoverian line. From the Württemberg line, a new East Frisian line developed through the princely East Frisian personal physician Eberhard Bacmeister, whose descendants from about the middle of the 18th century At the beginning of the 20th century, most of them moved back to Lower Saxony and some of them later even dared to emigrate to Mexico, where they founded an independent branch of the family. In addition, some important family members held leading positions and held responsible positions in St. Petersburg and Riga, settled there and also founded new branches of the family.

Today, the Mecklenburg line is considered extinct, the Württemberg line - in the spelling Backmeister - hardly exists anymore, whereas the Lower Saxon and the former East Frisian line (including in Mexico and the USA) are the most strongly represented lines of this family.

The Germanist Adolf Bacmeister wrote in his book Germanic Little Things, published in 1870, about his family,

"that it gives me a comfortable feeling to be able to trace the history of my family back four hundred years, to observe its changes and migrations, from Lüneburg to the coasts of the North and Baltic Seas to icy Russia to the vineyards of Swabia, finally even under the palm trees of India to the shores of the Canadian lakes and the shores of the Pacific. We brewed the Lüneburgers their beer, gave court sermons to the Queen of Denmark, Dorothea von Sachsen-Lauenburg-Ratzeburg, made ourselves useful under Swedish flags as auditors and negotiators, preached the gospel to the Hindus in Prakrit, governed the dukes of Württemberg their country in Saint Petersburg earned the Order of St. Vladimir and appointed a minister to the state of Hanover, who helped Admiral Farragut storm the Mississippi...."