Adolf Greverade (Councilor)

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Seal of councilor Adolf Greverade (around 1456)

Adolf Greverade , also Alf Greverade († Whitsun 1481 in Lübeck ), was a merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Adolf Greverade was elected to the Lübeck council in 1455. In the period from 1440 to 1449 he was named as guardian several times in Lübeck wills. As early as 1441 he was the owner of a house in the fishing pit .

He was married in an uninherited marriage and lived in a house with today's number Königstraße 58 . His nephew of the same name, the future pastor and humanist Adolf Greverade , became his estate administrator.

literature

  • Georg Wilhelm Dittmer : The Lübeck families Greverade and Warneböke in the sixteenth century: a contribution to the cultural history of this time. Lübeck 1859
  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeckische Ratslinie , Lübeck 1925, No. 538

Web links

Commons : Greverade family  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Die Greveraden (Lübsche Sage)  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gunnar Meyer: “possessing citizens” and “miserable sicknesses”: Lübeck's society in the mirror of their wills 1400–1449 (publications on the history of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, published by the archive of the Hanseatic city, series B, volume 48) Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 2010 ISBN 978-3-7950-0490-3
  2. ^ Antjekathrin Graßmann: Social advancement around 1500 in Lübeck. In: Social advancement. Functional elites in the late Middle Ages and early modern times. (Büdinger research on social history) Munich 2002 ISBN 9783486566123 , pp. 97–111 urn: nbn: de: 101: 1-201607272270
personal data
SURNAME Greverade, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Greverade, Alf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 1481
Place of death Lübeck