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AUGUST CARPZOV (1612-1683)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 399 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AUGUST CARPZOV (1612-1683)  , fifth son of the first Benedikt, distinguished himself as a diplomatist . Born at Colditz on the 4th of
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June 1612, he studied at the
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universities of
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Wittenberg,
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Leipzig and
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Jena, and in 1637 was appointed advocate of the court of justice (Hofgericht) at Wittenberg . Entering the service of Frederick William II., duke of Saxe-
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Altenburg, he took
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part in the negotiations which led to the. peace of Westphalia in 1648, and was appointed chancellor by the duke in 1649 . From 1672 to 168o he was chief minister of Ernest I. and Frederick I., dukes of Saxe-
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Coburg-
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Gotha, and died at Coburg on the 19th of November 1683 . August, who was a man of earnest piety, wrote Der gekreuzigte Jesus (1679) and some
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treatises on jurisprudence .

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