You are bidding on an interesting one promissory note from 1822 out Oberröslau (= Röslau, LK Wunsiedel).

Of the maybe pastor Johann Christian Wirth (1756-1838), who was best known as the host of Baron Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow in the war against Napoleon, lends to his son Christlieb Erdmann Nathanael Wirth (1799-1881), vicar in Sondheim, the sum of 150 guilders.

DatedOberröslau, 30. June 1822.

Signed by Christlieb Wirth.

Including several annotations by one hand, one of them also signed Johann Christian Wirth:

-Receipt for repayment of 100 guilders, dated Oberroslau, 20. December 1824

-Notes on various small payments, including to Sister Julchen for her wedding on April 19. July 1828

At the end an unsigned note from Christlieb Wirth that he still owes 14 guilders and 14 kreuzers.

Format:34 x 20.5 cm.

Christlieb Erdmann Nathanael Wirth was born in Eichigt in 1799 as the son of the pastor Johann Christian Wirth (1756-1838) and died on 10. January 1881 in Wunsiedel. First he was vicar in Sondheim (Bavaria), 1823-1825 pastor in Großzöbern near Bobenneukirchen, 1825-1837 pastor in Misslareuth, then in Bayreuth. He married Sophie Johanna Jakobina War (1805-1874).

on the 21st On August 12, 1832 his son Oskar Franz Leopold Wirth was born in Mißlareuth. May 1907 in Berlin-Pankow at the age of 74 as Privy Councilor and Dr. iur. died.

Another son was the later high school teacher Johann Christian Wirth (* 8. September 1843 in Bayreuth, died. 27. February 1924 ibid.), father of the psychologist Wilhelm Wirth (1876-1952), pioneer of experimental psychology.

Condition: Paper browned and stained, with creases. pleasee also note the pictures!

Internal note: Cloeter Wirth

About Johann Christian Wirth and his great-grandson Wilhelm Wirth (source: wikipedia):

Johann Christian Wirth (* 21. July 1756 in Hof (Saale); † 8th. October 1838 in Oberröslau) was a Protestant pastor and is best known as the host of Baron Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow.

Life: The Franconian theologian Wirth became a pastor in 1793 in Eichigt in Vogtland, Saxony. Several years later, in 1813, Baron Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow's black hunters held a bivouac in Eichigt during the fight against Napoleon I because they wanted to attack Hof in order to win the Hofer for the fight against Napoleon. The camp is said to have been in a meadow next to the church. While the writer Theodor Körner had to spend the night in the camp, Lützow found accommodation in the Wirth rectory.

In 1814 Wirth took up a new pastorate in Rehau in Upper Franconia. According to H. Höllerich (Rehau church and parish, 1970), Wirth was interested in education, health education, alchemy and magic during his time in Rehau and fought pietistic-awakening tendencies in the community.

When Wirth took up his duties, the damage from the town fire of 1763 had been almost completely repaired. The years 1814 and 1815 were influenced by the wars of liberation, as French, Austrian, Saxon, Prussian and Russian troops marched through Rehau and some had to be billeted. During Wirth's tenure, the devastating town fire of 6th Sep 1817. Wirth witnessed the parsonage and parish church burn down. His attempts to make the house fireproof by taking precautions had failed. In addition, he did not manage to save all the important things from the burning vicarage. Numerous irreplaceable church registers have been lost forever.

Six months after the fire, in the spring of 1818, Wirth left the community and moved to Oberröslau, where he remained until his death.

Wilhelm Wirth (* 26. July 1876 in Wunsiedel; † 13 July 1952 in Amberg) was an Upper Franconian psychologist. He is considered a pioneer of experimental psychology.

Life: Wirth was a son of the high school teacher Johann Christian Wirth and grew up in Bayreuth, where he also attended high school. From 1894 he studied jura in Munich. From the third semester he switched to philosophy as his main subject and also took mathematics and physics for the higher teaching post. After visiting the III. At the International Congress of Psychology in Munich in 1896, which was oriented towards experimental psychology, Wirth specialized in this direction.

In 1897 he received his doctorate. After studying in Leipzig, Wilhelm Wundt offered him an assistant position. Wirth qualified as a professor in 1900 with the work The Fechner-Helmholtz theorem on negative afterimages and its analogies. From 1903 to 1945 he published the archive for all of psychology, from 1926 the Psychological Abstracts (with). In 1902, together with other researchers, he founded the Society for Experimental Psychology.

Achievements: In 1908 Wirth was appointed professor. His main works, the phenomena of consciousness and the methods of experimental psychology, were created during this time. The goal of his research was to obtain precisely measurable stimuli and clearly agreed, arbitrary behavior patterns between the experimenter and the subject as the basis for a generally valid comparative situation of consciousness. In 1938 he defined: "The entire knowledge of quantitatively comprehensible laws of mental performance in relation to the outside world can be referred to as psychophysics in the narrower sense." From 1926 Wirth had crystallized the accuracy of the coordination between optical perception and subjective movement.

In 1935 he began to develop equipment for target practice on behalf of the Wehrmacht. In 1943, the seminar and Wirth's private apartment were totally destroyed in an air raid. At the age of 68, Wirth applied for retirement and moved to Bavaria with his family. He is buried in Bayreuth.

Science Fiction Writers: Wilhelm and his older brother Heinrich Johann Wirth were science fiction writers. In 1889, when Heinrich was 16 and Wilhelm 13, they wrote Vom Saturn zum Ring. The authors illustrated their story themselves. The visions of the two high school students, enthusiastic about progress, of Romanopolis, the New York-inspired capital of the Termenian Empire with its bridges, high-rise buildings and rapid-transit railways seem like anticipation of the 1920s, based on drawings by Frank R. Paul or the film sets of Fritz Lang's Metropolis. The images of the astronomical phenomena are exactly correct in terms of size, constellation and shadow contours. The Wirth brothers wanted to open up the beauties of the celestial phenomena in the Saturn ring system.

In 2002, the Wetzlar Fantastic Library organized the Planetary Cities exhibition, in which the original images were shown publicly for the first time. The brothers' work was also honored in the exhibition Architecture as written in the book in the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Munich from December 2006 to March 2007 and in the accompanying catalogue.

awards

Member of the Psychological Society of the Sorbonne University in Paris

Honorary Doctorate from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina Halle (since 1938)