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- Am 1. Febr. Wurde von Gnädigſter Landes-Herrſchafft der all hieſige Cantzler Herr Auguſt Carpzov nebſtdem damahligen Altenburgiſchen Hoff-Rath Herrn D. Johann Thoma zudem Reichs-Tag nach
Regenſpurg von Coburg aus in Geſandſchafft abgeordnet, welche W Mährender Kröhnung Königs Ferdinandi IV. daſelbſt verharreten/und nach dem Anno 1654 den 7. May der Reichs Abſchied publiciret worden von dannen wieder abreiſten.
On the 1st of February the Reichs-Tag of Regensburg, Coburg, deputized from Reichs Land-Herrschafft the all local Cantzler Mr. August Carpzov along with the former Altenburg Hoff-Rath Mr. D. Johann Thoma in Gesandschafft, which was the mercy of King Ferdinandi IV. there, after the Anno 1654, on May 7th, the Reich's farewell was publicized, and then left again.
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His father, Michael Thoma, was advocate to Leipzig, and the mother a daughter of Jakob Schultes, who receives the memory of his Ramens in some writings. This city, so fertile to scholars, is where Johann Thomä saw the world on 28 August 1624. The premature loss of his parents necessitated the grandmother, the widow of the schoolkids, a very clever woman, to turn every possible care to his upbringing. It gave him "and his brother, the worthy Baker Christian Thomasien," whose biography requires a whole book, different private teachers, who gave guidance to the gay genius to the Greek and Latin languages, to the rhetoric, and to the important truths of philosophy. When this preparation had been made, two brothers were sent to the gymnasium at Gera, where they, besides other ordinary school subjects, wrote their verses in poetry and rhetoric, and also in dispute, and their relative, your Count Reissi, Canzler, Johann Alberti, enjoyed all support.
Three years later, they started the academy of studies at Wittenberg under the close supervision of the professor of mathematics, Nicol Pompeius. Here John Thoma did not devote much of his time to antiquities and history, for he knew well how many benefits he would have in learning the rights which he had designated as the most important subject of his Fleet. He also appeared publicly, and defended a political essay with the assistance of the professor, Michael Wendeler. His inclination, however, to undertake a learned journey, and to visit foreign high schools, was opposed by the unfortunate war of that time, for which he had to return to his native town in 1642, after a three-year visit to Wittenberg, where he himself was immediately produced Honorary dissertation. The great jurist and humanist, Johann Strauch, was at that time praised most admirably, and he liked to grant admittance to young students. Thoma was especially the one to whom he bestowed all his confidentiality, to whom he had frequent conversations the straightest path to a thorough erudition. With such growth of new knowledge he came to Jena in 1644, and became tutor of a Saxon von Adel, Herrmann von Wolframsdorf, finally died as Charsächsischer Oberhof-marshal, secret council and district captain of the Leipzig circle, and through the foundation of a joy table Wittenberg for twelve students his memory perpetuated. In Jena, Thoma acquired many patrons, among whom Erasmus Ungepaur was the most respected. The recommendation of the same gave him permission from the law faculty to hold private lectures and disputations. The happier his first attempts were, the more he was moved.
At this time, his scholarly efforts found a greater affair, which also drew the attention of the Saxon courtyards. In 1650 they gave him a law professor, as well as a full-time position in the faculty, in the entire Hofgrichte and in Schöppenstuhle. Thoma did not miss any opportunity offered to a righteous academic teacher to fulfill his duties. As he had uncommon gifts for such a post, his oral instruction was demanded by a multitude of young law-goers, whom the lecture-room could scarcely comprehend. Therefore, he used a convenient means to remove obstacles that resisted their desires. He skillfully examined each one's abilities and separated them all into certain classes, making him wealthy enough to satisfy both the weak and the strong. Should not this temple be worth copying today? He also often entered the legal cathedrals with many of his listeners, and under his presidency, in a short time of about four years, made them defend some thirty-three treatises. Nevertheless, the specimens assigned to him did not remain. In the Schöppenstuhle alone he delivered more than three hundred relations and legal interviews.
Whether he was already born to be an abbot, the Duke, Friedrich Wilhelm II of Saxe-Altenburg, thought it best to ask him for more important matters from the university. For the first time, this loving prince made him the real councilor of the court, and he had, in spite of all the accusations against it, already moved to Jenner in Altenburg in 1665. The following year, however, opened to him a brilliant scene, in which he was to take part in German Reich business before the eyes of so many sublime statesmen. The Canzler, August Carpzov, lived at the Reichsversammlung in Regensburg as Ducal Ambassador bey. He was assigned to the same, and sent here next to Frankfurt in 1655 at the alida deputation convent, also in 1637 to the Maynzian Elector Johann Philipp. Soon after, the Election Fairs took place, in which King Leopold received the Kaysercrone. Thomä was present so that he might observe the interest of his court, and he met not a few high-ranking persons, whose minds perfectly won his tender and wise bearing. He returned from Frankfurt to Regensburg in 1659, and had the honor of having the first Imperial minister, the Cardinal and Bishop of Hochstists there, give to Franz Wilhelm, Count von Wartenberg, earliest signs of the utmost respect. The end of the same year was the beginning of well-deserved rewards, as the Duke absent-mindedly entrusted to him the dignity of a Consistorial Priest. In 1660 he accepted the yearning at the court of Vienna for his master, whom the Kayser assured after a few years in writing of his gracious affection for the Persondesian ambassador. Meanwhile, Thomä remained at Regensburg until 1668, when he became the successor of the recently deceased Chancellor and secret counselor of Thumshirn at Altenburg. He stood with complete respect for the Lord and country to these respectable offices, to which the Directorate of the High Command Collegium had come, and decided to live for the common good on the year of the year 1679. Those who have given some news of him agree his glory that he had been a man in the art of winding up the most confused state affairs, and to associate an exquisite wisdom with manifold knowledge, especially at the time when the. Altenburgische line extinct and between the houses Gotha and Weimar the Sackeßion because of disagreement arose. Besides the recollection of which he had most devoted himself, his strength in theology made him venerable. He could not hesitate to come among the most profound divines of our church.
Now some of his domestic circumstances. In a double marriage different children have been bunked to him. From the first, which he had received with the only daughter of the Reichshofrath, Johann Philipp von Bohn, he saw two daughters. The oldest elected the Saxon Hofrath, Johann Caspar Hendrich, the youngest but the secret Rath, Johann Friedrich Bachov, to the wife. After the death of his lover, Thoma joined the widow of Paul Hornigk, a councilor of Saxony-Naumburg, and ambassador of the Reichstag to Regensburg. Through these he became a father of two sons; but only the youngest, Johann Adam, survived. To his children he left behind two knights, Nauendorf* and Frauenfeis, the scholarly republic but a lot of small writings, which consist almost all in legal disputes. Most of them belong to civil rights, but they are still useful, rare though they may be in many hands.
*He received this opened life from the Weimar court. In gratitude he donated to the construction of the church at Bobeck, not far from Bürgel, in the year 1668 a hundred seven and sixty old shock, each of which is counted to 20 gr.
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1624 - 1679 (54 years)
