Gottlieb Keim (10 March 1783 – 29 August 1868) was a member of the

Frankfurt Parliament The Frankfurt National Assembly () was the first freely elected parliament for all German Confederation, German states, including the German-populated areas of the Austrian Empire, elected on 1 May 1848 (see German federal election, 1848). The ...

Life

Born in

Kulmbach Kulmbach () is the capital of the district of Kulmbach in Bavaria in Germany. The town, once a stronghold of the Principality of Bayreuth, is renowned for its University of Life Sciences, a branch of the University of Bayreuth, the massive Plasse ...

, during his law studies at the

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Keim became a member of the , from which he left because of differences. With like-minded fellow students from the Bayreuth area he thereupon founded in 1803 a Landsmannschaft for Bayreuth students, which took the place of a Franconian Landsmannschaft in dissolution and developed bit by bit to the . Hired against

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, he entered the Prussian judicial service after his studies. After Franconia had been occupied and handed over to Bavaria, he refused to join the Bavarian civil service (Bavaria was on the side of the opponent). Subsequently, he became a freelance lawyer and city councillor in Bayreuth. The city sent him in 1848 as a member of the

. Keim died in

Bayreuth Bayreuth ( or ; High Franconian German, Upper Franconian: Bareid, ) is a Town#Germany, town in northern Bavaria, Germany, on the Red Main river in a valley between the Franconian Jura and the Fichtel Mountains. The town's roots date back to 11 ...

August 29, 1868, at the age of 85.

Literature

* Dieter Mronz: ''Gottlieb Friedr. Ferd. Keim 1783–1868''.''Gottlieb Friedr. Ferd. Keim : 1783-1868 ; Gründer d. Corps Baruthia 1803 ; Abgeordneter aus Bayreuth zur Nationalversammlung 1848''
on WorldCat Jahrbuch des , vol. 31 (1986), * : ''Corpsstudenten in der Paulskirche'', ''Einst und Jetzt'', special issue 1990,

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Keim, Gottlieb 1783 births 1868 deaths People from Kulmbach Members of the Frankfurt Parliament 18th-century people from the Holy Roman Empire