Valentin Ferdinand of Gudenus

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Valentin Ferdinand Freiherr von Gudenus (born June 19, 1679 in Mainz , † March 9, 1758 in Wetzlar ) was a German lawyer and historian. Gudenus came from a family originally based in Hesse.

biography

Valentin Ferdinand Gudenus was born as the son of the Electoral Mainz Court Councilor, Leibmedicus and Professor Urban Ferdinand Gudenus (1634–1699). His grandfather Moritz Gudenus was a former Protestant-Reformed preacher in Abterode . When he entered the secular service of the Elector of Mainz Anselm Casimir Wambolt von Umstadt in 1630 , he had converted to Catholicism. Valentin Ferdinand G.'s mother was Lotharia Mechtildis Elisabeth von Birkig , the daughter of a Spanish colonel.

Consisting of the Netherlands originating, 1553 in Utrecht proven sex was in 1586, after moving to Germany, an imperial confirmation graduate of the traditional nobility. Valentin F. Gudenus received an imperial baron diploma in Vienna on January 11, 1746 , after having received confirmation of the imperial baron status in 1732 and 1745 . Johann Leopold von Gudenus (1676–1713), Auxiliary Bishop of Worms and Christoph Ignaz von Gudenus (1674–1747), Auxiliary Bishop of Mainz in Erfurt , were his cousins.

He first studied law in Mainz , graduated and then went on to study in Erfurt , Turin and Milan . After having traveled extensively in Italy and France ("Kavalierstour"), he was first employed at the Imperial Court of Justice in Wetzlar. In 1706 he became court and government councilor of the margraves of Baden-Baden . He held the office until 1713. In 1718 he became court and auditor of the Electorate of Mainz. In 1722 he was presented by the Catholic estates of the Franconian district as assessor at the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Wetzlar and held this position from 1724 until the end of his life.

Works

Bookplate of Baron Valentin Ferdinand von Gudenus (1732)

Gudenus had always shown strong historical interest. During his last activity at the Reich Chamber of Commerce, this had an impact in extensive publications. Since 1716 he had sponsored the new edition of the Mainz story of Nicolaus Serarius, first published in 1604, by Georg Christian Joannis after he had learned about Joannis plans through a bookseller advertisement. He also supported Joannis with other editing and publication projects. By 1724 at the latest, however, he fell out with the prolific writer Joannis because his way of working seemed too superficial to him. He now took over the editing of the material he had collected into his own hands. His main work was a monumental document book on the history of the Electorate of Mainz, published in five volumes in Göttingen , Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig (volume 5 was published posthumously by Heinrich Wilhelm Anton Buri ). It represents “ one of the most complete and richest collections on the history of the German Imperial Constitution ”. The extraordinary value of the work on the history of the Elector and Arch Chancellor of Mainz in general, as well as on the history of the Mainz Archbishopric in particular, is due on the one hand to the fact that Gudenus has many to his It was able to print documents that were still preserved for a time, which were lost in the chaos of war between the 18th and 20th centuries or through the dispersal of the Mainz archives. Only through Gudenus Edition were they made for memory, so that the knowledge of mankind was preserved. On the other hand, the work is of exceptional value in terms of the history of science. It had an exemplary effect on the editors of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in the 19th century and has a firm place in the development of modern diplomacy and, above all, of the academic sciences .

Main work:

  • Codex Diplomaticvs: Exhibens Anecdota Ab Anno DCCCLXXXI, Ad MCCC. Mogvntiaca, Ivs Germanicvm, Et SRI Historiam Illvstrantia / Ex Latebris In Lvcem Protraxit Notasqve Addidit Valent. Ferd. De Gvdenvs, Immed. Ord. Eqvestris Imp. Camerae Imperialis Assessor. Goettingae; Francofurti; Lipsiae 1743-1768. (Digital copies: Volume 1 , Volume 2 , Volume 3 , Volume 4 , Volume 5 ) (Title and publisher vary in the individual volumes)

Other works:

  • Sylloge I. variorum diplomatariorum monumentorumque veterum ineditorum adhuc et res Germanicas, in primis vero Moguntinas illustrantium. Quae.post diram plurium seculorum inclusionem,… atque nunc tandem libertate plenaria, ad quam avidissime anhelant, donare decrevit. - Andrea & Hort, Francofurti ad Moenum (Ffm) 1724/28. ( Digitized version )
  • Vncialaevm Selectvm Wetzlariense. That is: Exact review and description of a collected supply of unreadable Cabinets-Thaler At the number 784 pieces ...: Wobey at the same time to their each, per distinctas Classes & Gradvs, the one rank position is assigned, which is due to him ...; In addition to an appendix of 92 other coins and medals / collegit, descripsit, notisque sparsim illustravit Valent. Ferdin. de Gvdenvs Eq. Imp. immed. Circuli Rhen. sup. Cameræ Imperialis Assessor. Nicolaus Ludwig Winckler, Wetzlar 1734

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kneschke, Adels-Lexicon, Vol. 4, p. 86
  2. ↑ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume IV, Volume 67 of the complete series, Limburg an der Lahn 1978, p. 309
  3. ↑ Hofmann, Gudenus, Col. 961
  4. ↑ In the foreword to the first volume of his main work (Cod.dipl.mog.) Gudenus reports on his relationship with Joannis
  5. ↑ Gerlich, Landeskunde, p. 24

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personal data
SURNAME Gudenus, Valentin Ferdinand von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gudenus, Valentin Ferdinand Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1679
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1758
Place of death Wetzlar