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

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