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

The ev. 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 sons Christlieb Erdmann Nathanael Wirth (1799-1881), parish vicar in Sondheim, and Adam Johann Martin Fear God Wirth (*1796), 1823 pastor in Sachsgrün, the sum of 600 guilders.


DatedOberröslau, 1. June 1822.


Signed from both sons.

Belowtwo handwritten, signed receipts from Johann Christian Wirth about repayments, dated Oberröslau, 28. March 1826 and 26. June 1827.

At the beginning of the second page there is a note (by another hand) about the repayment of the last installment on the 10th. October 1828.

Format:34x20.5cm.

Christlieb Erdmann Nathanael Wirth was born in 1799 in Eichigt as the son of the pastor Johann Christian Wirth (1756-1838) and died on the 10th. January 1881 in Wunsiedel. First he was parochial vicar in Sondheim (Bavaria), 1823-25 ​​pastor in Großzöbern near Bobenneukirchen, 1825-1837 pastor in Mißlareuth, then in Bayreuth. He married Sophie Johanna Jakobina Krieg (1805-1874).

On the 21st His son Oskar Franz Leopold Wirth was born in Mißlareuth on August 12, 1832. May 1907 in Berlin-Pankow at the age of 74 as Privy Councilor of Justice 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 Eichigt in Vogtland, Saxony, in 1793. Several years later, in 1813, the Black Hunters of Baron Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow held a bivouac in Eichigt during the fight against Napoleon I because they wanted to attack Hof in order to win the people of Hof to the fight against Napoleon. The camp is said to have been on a meadow next to the church. While the writer Theodor Körner had to spend the night in the camp, Lützow found accommodation in Wirth's parsonage.

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

When Wirth took up his post, the damage from the city fire of 1763 had been almost 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. The devastating city fire of June 6th occurred during Wirth's term of office. September 1817. Wirth witnessed how the rectory and parish church burned down. His attempts to make the house fireproof had failed. In addition, he was unable to save all the important things from the burning rectory. As a result, numerous irreplaceable church records 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 the son of the high school teacher Johann Christian Wirth and grew up in Bayreuth, where he also attended high school. He studied jura in Munich from 1894. From the third semester onwards he switched to philosophy as his main subject and also took mathematics and physics for higher teaching qualifications. After the visit of 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 a position as an assistant. Wirth completed his habilitation in 1900 with the work The Fechner-Helmholtz theorem about negative afterimages and its analogies. From 1903 to 1945 he edited the archive for the entire psychology, and from 1926 he co-edited the Psychological Abstracts. Together with other researchers, he founded the Society for Experimental Psychology in 1902.

Achievements: In 1908 Wirth was appointed professor. His main works, the phenomena of consciousness and the methods of experimental psychology, were written during this time. His research goal was to obtain precisely measurable stimuli and clearly agreed upon arbitrary behaviors between experimenter and test 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 external world can be referred to as psychophysics in the narrower sense." From 1926 onwards, the accuracy of the coordination between optical perception and subjective movement had crystallized for Wirth.

In 1935, on behalf of the Wehrmacht, he began developing devices for practicing aiming. In 1943, the seminar and Wirth's private apartment were completely 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 the work From Saturn to the Ring. The authors illustrated their story themselves. The visions of the two progressive high school students of Romanopolis, the New York-inspired capital of the Termenian Empire with its bridges, high-rise buildings and express trains, seem like an anticipation of the 1920s, in drawings by Frank R. Paul or the film sets of Fritz Lang's Metropolis. The images of astronomical phenomena are exactly correct in size, constellation and shadow contours. The Wirth brothers wanted to explore the beauty 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 it is written in the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Munich from December 2006 to March 2007 and in the accompanying catalog.

Awards

Member of the Psychological Society of the Sorbonne University in Paris

Honorary Doctorate National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

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

Achievements: In 1908 Wirth was appointed professor. His main works, the phenomena of consciousness and the methods of experimental psychology, were written during this time. His research goal was to obtain precisely measurable stimuli and clearly agreed upon arbitrary behaviors between experimenter and test 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 external world can be referred to as psychophysics in the narrower sense." From 1926 onwards, the accuracy of the coordination between optical perception and subjective movement had crystallized for Wirth. Science fiction writers: Wilhelm and his older brother Heinrich Johann Wirth wer