Christian Gottfried Lorsch [SEP] place of death
Christian Gottfried Lorsch
Christian Gottfried Lorsch (September 11, 1773 in Nuremberg – February 19, 1830 in Nuremberg) was the first civilian first mayor of Nuremberg after the city's incorporation into the Kingdom of Bavaria, serving from 1818 to 1821.
Lorsch was a doctor of law and practiced as an attorney there beginning in 1796. In 1801 he became a so-called "Genannter", a member of the city's board of aldermen. Following a "Gemeindeedikt" of King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria that required
Christian texts. Few Carolingian manuscripts are better known than the Lorsch gospels, the "Codex Aureus of Lorsch", now divided between the Vatican Library and the Batthyaneum Library in Alba Iulia, Romania; the carved ivory consular diptychs of Anastasius (consul 517) that were reused for its bindings are urbane classicising works of art in themselves, and embodiments of the classical tradition of Byzantium as it was transmitted to Lorsch in the time of Charlemagne.
In 876, shortly after the death of Ludwig der Deutsche (Louis the German