Abraham Bock

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Abraham Bock zu Pollach , also modernized Abraham von Bock (* 1531 ; † October 6, 1603 ) was a court clerk of the Electorate of Saxony and owner of the manor .

Life

Bock came from the Silesian noble family Bock , which initially did not have the predicate “von”, but often used the addition “zu Pol (l) ach” after the Polach estate near Lüben to distinguish it from other bearers of the name Bock .

After attending grammar school in Goldberg, he studied at the universities of Vienna , Leipzig , Basel and Bologna . After returning from Italy in 1559 he got a job at the court in Dresden from Elector August von Sachsen . After just one year he was given the title of "Hofrat", in 1571 he was appointed court marshal, in 1592 he was appointed to the privy council and lastly in 1597 as chief judge at the Leipzig Higher Court.

Abraham Bock took part in numerous embassies. He had to travel to the Netherlands on delicate missions in 1562 and 1565 . Elector August's niece and foster daughter Anna married her husband Prince Wilhelm of Orange there , which was increasingly full of conflicts that Bock probably had to investigate. Superficially, however, he was supposed to settle the question of her Wittum goods and personal property, which Anna's husband had left open.

In another delicate family affair, Bock had to accompany Elector August's daughter Elisabeth from Dresden to the Palatinate in 1579 . There he had the task of determining the causes of her increasing family conflicts with her husband Johann Casimir von der Pfalz and resolving them. Very skilfully conveyed by von Bock, he was only able to establish peace between the spouses for a limited time.

After only six years in the electoral service, Bock and his male heirs received the entitlement to the goods of Hermann and Hans Rost in Flarchheim in 1565 due to his services from Elector August . Abraham Bock recorded this fact in his will of October 18, 1600. When Hans Rost, the last male representative of his family, died out in 1617, Bock's descendants asserted this entitlement with Elector Johann Georg I. It was Bock's grandson, Hans Abraham Bock.

In 1582 he bought the Großpriesen rule in Bohemia.

He occupied himself with poetry in his spare time and wrote poems that he had printed.

The three sons of Abraham d. J., Christian and Friedrich Wilhelm Bock, of whom only the latter two were still alive in 1617. In the 17th century, this family branch died out in the male line.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Joachim Böttcher: Princess Anna of Saxony 1544 - 1577 - A life tragedy . Dresdner Buchverlag, Dresden 2013, ISBN 978-3-941757-39-4 , pp. 104, 113-115 .
  2. ↑ Hans-Joachim Böttcher: Elisabeth of Saxony and Johann Casimir of the Palatinate - A marriage and religious conflict . Dresdner Buchverlag, Dresden 2018, ISBN 978-3-946906-06-3 , pp. 126-128 .
personal data
SURNAME Bock, Abraham
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bock zu Pollach, Abraham (full name); Bock, Abraham von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Electoral Saxon court official and manor owner
DATE OF BIRTH 1531
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1603