Susannah (Berlich) Struve’s sister, Anna Margaretha Berlich, born August 2, 1651 in Dresden; and died March 9, 1729 also at Dresden. She married twice. She first married Johann Georg Butzschky (1621 – 1681) and they had a daughter Margaretha Dorothea who married Johann Jacob Von Hartig (see chart) – a family of some interest. Johann Jacob had a sister Johanna Dorothea (1658 – 1795) who married Romanus Teller II. Romanus had first married Christine Barbara Berlich, Anna Margaretha (Berlich) Butzschky’s sister. The father of Johann Jacob and Johanna Dorothea was Christian Hartig (1605 – 1677).
1645, Johann Georg Butzschky made a verse contribution to: Perfertischer Muusen Schlüssel, a book that was edited by his father Samuel.
Samuel Butzschk (1612-1678), Anna Margaretha Berlich’s father-in-law, was considered one of the most profound and witty prose writers of his century. Wikipedia says that: “In his form of expression, his enthusiastic piety comes into play, which is reflected in a clear view of the conditions of his time and of public social life.”
Samuelis Butschkii I.U.C. Gülldenes Brief buch …
Before marrying Anna Margaretha Berlich, Johann Georg Butzschky had married Marien Euphrosynen Voigt upon whose death in 1664 a funeral book: Das Göttliche Vater- und Mannes-Recht gegen die Gläubigen Aus dem 7. und 8. Vers des 16. Cap. Ezechielis … was published.
Marien Euphrosynen
The title says – The noble high-honored and virtuous woman Marien Euphrosynen Butschky, born Voigt, the beloved wife of the Noble and highly respected Mr. Johann George Butschky who gently and quietly fell asleep on the 21st of October, Friday, after midday three quarters at 4 a.m. in 1664 and then on the 30th October on the 21st Sunday after Trinity, was buried in the earth.
Johann Georg Butschky died on 27 September 1686 and a series of funeral books were published (none of which have yet been digitized) and some of which are shown below:
- Wehmüthige Hertzens-Klage über den Schmertzl. Verlust und Hintritt Des Wohl-Edlen Vesten und Hochgelahrten Hn. Johann Georg Butschky auf Waltersdorff [et]c. Der verwittibten Durchl. Churfürstin zu Sachsen [et]c. Wohlbestellten Witthumbs-Rath …
- Ehren-Gedächtnüß-Seule Zum wohlverdienten Andencken Des … Johann George Butschky/ auf Klein-Waltersdorff/ [et]c. Der … Frau Landes-Mutter In Der Witthumb hochbestallten Raths … nunmehro Seligen/ : Vier Wochen nach Seinem wohl-ansehnlichen Trauer-Begängnüß …
- Des Heil. Davids Gutes Auskommen unter Göttlicher Regierung. : Aus den Worten Davids welche in dem LXXI. Psalm vers. 5. 6. 7. enthalten/ als Aus dem selbst-erwehlten Leichen-Text/ Des … Johann Georg Butzschky …
- Letzte Schuldigkeit: Welche Bey Beerdigung Des Wohl-Edlen Vesten und Hochgelahrten Hn. Johann Georg Butschky auf Waltersdorff [et]c. Der verwittibten Durchl. Churfürstin zu Sachsen [et]c. Wohlbestellten Witthumbs-Rath/ Renth-Inspectoris und Geheimbden Secretarii, So bey Volckreicher Versammlung den …
Nearly a decade after her first husband died in 1686, Anna Margarethe (Berlich) Butschky married Christfried Wächtler, on 14 October 1691, at Dresden, Saxony. Christfried was born on 18 November 1652, the son of Jacob Wachlera and Elisabeth Margarethe Bake. Christfried died on 5 September 1732. He was a jurist.
Upon the marriage of Christfried and Anna Margarethe, a book celebrating it was published with the title: Schuldigste Aufwartung, welche als der … : Hochzeitsglückwunsch auf Christfried Wächtler, Jurist, und Anne Margarethe Butzschky, geb. Berlich, 14. Okt. 1691…
Christfried and Anna Margaretha (Berlich) (Butzschky) Wachtler had two sons who died young. Their only daughter, Dorothea Elisabeth Wächtler (1695 – 1748), married the theologian Christoph Heinrich Zeibich (1677 – 1748) in 1713. There were eight children from the marriage. One of them, Erdmuth Sophia, married Johann Andeas Boden.
Anna Margarethe (Berlich) (Butzschky) Wachtler died in 1729 and a brass grave plate indicating her, as well as members of the Wachtler family, was established on the wall of the church at Kleinwaltersdorf.
Christfried Wachtler had a brother Jacob (1638 – 1702) who married Rosine Magdalene (1650 – 1701) Schlegel the daughter of Christoph Schlegel (1613 – 1678).
The brothers Jacob and Christfried Wachtler had another brother Reinhard who married Rosina Salome Spoor (1645 – ) the sister of Johann Friedrich Spoor (? – 1709). Reinhardt Wachtler and Johann Friedrich Spoor were printers who published books together, some of which are shown below:
The German National Biography’s entry for Christfried Wächtler reads, in part: … lawyer, was born the son of the preacher Jakob Wachtler (1638 – 1702) of Grimma on November 18, 1652, moved to the University of Leipzig in 1668 and returned there after he had already started practicing under an older lawyer in Dresden in 1672. 1674 back again. Relationships with Swedes led him to Pomerania in 1675, but a call to act as Actuarius of the Electoral Saxon Office of Wolkenstein soon brought him back to his homeland. Later he became secretary of the Minister of State Reinhard Friedrich Grafen v. Taube until in 1680 he returned to the law firm that he had worked in at Dresden. It was not until 1688 that he took the doctorate; he retired from practice in 1723 and died on September 5, 1732 as a result of a car [!] accident. The literary merits of the man, whose professional activity had always been practical, lie exclusively in the field of elegant jurisprudence, which he handled with rare delicacy and scholarship, especially in the mastery of Greek sources and literature for the Germany of his time, he was an exception.
In 1666, a conflagration of family members such as: Jacob Wachtler, Hieronymus Kromayer, and Friedrich Severin Berlich all contributed to: Lessus Super Praematuro …
THE HARTIG CONNECTION
As noted above, Anna Margaretha Berlich and Johann Georg Butzschky had a daughter Margaretha Dorothea who married Johann Jacob von Hartig (1639 – 1718). He was the son of Christian Hartig (1605 – 1677) and Emerantia Kindler Trappenstein (1610 – 1648). On their wedding day, 26 October 1688, a book was published titled: Aspectum Amicissimum Phoebi Nostri, (Salv. Tit:) Dn. Johannis Jacobi Ab Hartig …
Christian von Hartig, the father of Johann Jacob, who married Margaretha Dorothea Butschky, was born on 16 May 1605 at Zittau, and studied in Frankfurt, Strasbourg, and Geneva. He also traveled to France, England, Holland, and Denmark. He then went to Venice and finally Padua where he qualified as a Doctor of Medicine. Hartig then undertook a scientific journey through Italy, returning, back to Venice, where the then Doge, Nicolo Contarini, appointed him in 1629 as his personal physician. Hartig returned in 1632 to his native town of Zittau and was immediately elected to the council which took place during the storms of the Thirty Years War.
In 1643, the town of Zittau was besieged by Swedish troops, but Hartig managed to negotiate with the Swedish generals who lifted the siege and thus saved the city from greater destruction. Christian was elected thirteen times as mayor of the town of Zittau.
In 1651 he built a castle – Althörnitz which he adorned with the proud lion of the Venetian Republic. He was also a great gardener and planted his garden with exotic flora such as tuberose, tulips, and an Orangery. Shortly before he died, he founded a considerable scholarship, initially for relatives, and in their absence for preachers’ sons within the urban area of Zittau.
Christoph von Hartig died on 1 May 1677 and was buried in St. John’s Church in front of the sacristy. His father was Johann (Philip?) Hartig (1572 – 1632), who was also a doctor, and his mother was Susanna Montani (1576 – 1632), the daughter of Johanne Montanus, an imperial physician. Both of Christoph’s parents died in 1632 at Zittau as a result of the plague and also rest in St. John’s Church.
After Hartig’s death, Althörnitz was inherited by his son, Johann Jacob von Hartig, born on February 2, 1639. As we have seen above, he married Margaretha Dorothea Butzschky, the daughter of Anna Margaretha Berlich and Johann Georg Butzschky. Like his father, he undertook significant travels. On settling back at Zittau, he was elected three times as the city judge and held thirteen times the office of mayor.
Among Hartig’s familiar friends was the famous Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus in Görlitz, with whom he was in constant correspondence, and because he was a great enthusiast of chemistry, he set up a laboratory at Althörnitz in which the two friends often worked together for days.
Likewise, Hartig was an excellent musician and had enjoyed lessons with the famous Lully in Paris. Johann Jacob von Hartig died in 1718 and was succeeded in the possession of the manor of Althörnitz by his son, Adam Jakob Hartig (1702 – 1761).
When Johann Jacob died a funeral book was published: Die Göttliche Führung Wurde, Als Der Wohlgebohrne Herr Herr Johann Jacob von Hartig Erbsaß auf Alt-Hörnitz/ der löbl. Sechs-Stadt Zittau Hochverdienter ältester Bürger-Meister …
On January 18, 1762 Christiane Margarethe Elisabeth von Hartig (born January 16, 1736 in Zittau; † April 23, 1812), the daughter of Adam Jakob von Hartig and Johanna Helene Erdmuthe von Spiller (* June 23, 1718; † December 1, 1800) married Christoph Friedrich von Mihlendorff Freiherr von Manteuffel.
The Von Manteuffel Family
Christoph Friedrich von Mihlendorff (also Mullendorff ), since 1742 von Mihlendorff Freiherr von Manteuffel , (* February 12, 1727 in Warsaw ; † March 28, 1803 in Waldheim ), was the adopted son of the Electoral Saxon cabinet minister Ernst Christoph Graf von Manteuffel and founder the baronial Saxon- Lower Lusatian line of the von Manteuffel family.
Christoph Friedrich von Mihlendorff Freiherr von Manteuffel and Christiane Margarethe Elisabeth von Hartig had a number of children. One, a son, was Friedrich Otto Gottlob Freiherr von Manteuffel (born April 6, 1777, † January 20, 1812 in Lübben) who married on August 17, 1803 Auguste Helene Christiane von Thermo (* 1782; † 1810) who in turn had a son – Otto Theodor von Manteuffel.
Another son of Christoph Friedrich von Manteuffel and Christiane von Hartig was Hans Carl Erdmann von Manteuffel (1773 – 1844) whose son Freiherr Edwin Karl Rochus von Manteuffel (1809 – 1885) was a successful army general.
