Andreas Gyldenklou

Andreas Gyldenklou (born December 20, 1602 in Slomarp as Andreas Månsson Gylle ; † January 10, 1665 in Skånelaholm ) was a Swedish lawyer, state secretary and diplomat.

Life

Andreas Gylle was born on the Slomarps farm in Östanstång , Östergötland , and was the son of Måns Pedersson Gylle († 1644), treasurer of Duke John of Östergötland . He studied history, political science and law at the universities of Uppsala , Leipzig and Wittenberg . In 1627 he became a lecturer in philosophy at the newly founded grammar school in Linköping . The Uppsala University appointed him in 1630 as professor of poetry. In the same year he became Referendarius correspondentiarum of the royal chancellery.

In 1630 he followed King Gustav II Adolf to the war in Germany. In 1631 he went again to Uppsala as a professor of poetry. In 1635 he became secretary of the royal court chancellery. In 1636 he was appointed Häradshövding (Head of Harden) in Harde Wedens härad in Västergötland . On October 20, 1639 Andreas Gylle was raised to the Swedish nobility under the name Gyldenklou . In 1641 he became Häradshövding in Lyhundra härad in Roslagen and in 1653 in Hammarkinds härad in Östergötland. As early as 1645 he was appointed State Secretary; he resigned from this office in 1654.

In 1657 he became president of the Swedish government in Pomerania and at the same time of the royal court in Greifswald . During the Second Northern War in 1659 he went to Elbing as an envoy for peace negotiations with Poland and in 1660 as an extraordinary ambassador to Oliva . In 1661 he took his leave.

Andreas Gyldenklou died in Skånelaholm Castle in 1665 and was buried in St. James' Church in Stockholm. He was the author of several scientific papers.

family

With his first wife Maria Rijk († 1631), daughter of the customs administrator Reinhold Rijk, he had four sons, two of whom died young. Her son Jacob Gyldenklou († 1692) was an assessor at the Wismar Tribunal . His second marriage was to Anna Burea, daughter of Bishop Jacobus Bureus and sister of President Nils Burensköld. With her he had three daughters and two sons.

literature

• Johann Friedrich von Recke , Karl Eduard Napiersky : General writers and scholars lexicon of the provinces of Livonia, Esthland and Courland . Volume two: G – K. Johann Friedrich Steffenhagen and son , Mittau 1829, pp. 154–155, digitized .
• Gabriel Anrep : Svenska Adelns Ättar-Taflor. Part 2: Granfelt från Dal - Mörner af Tuna. Norstedt & Söner, Stockholm 1861, pp. 55–56, digitized .

Web links

• Unlike Gyldenklou in the Rostock matriculation portal