Andreas Burckhardt (Chancellor)

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Andreas Burckhardt portrayed by Anselm van Hulle , Gripsholm Castle Sweden


Andreas Burckhardt (born July 21, 1594 in Tübingen ; † June 25, 1651 in Stuttgart ) was a Württemberg jurist and chancellor of the Duchy of Württemberg .

Life

Origin and family

Andreas Burckhardt ducal Württemberg chancellor on an engraving by Conrad Waumans around 1647, HW Rath collection

Andreas Burckhardt was born in Tübingen in 1594 as the son of the rhetoric professor Georg Burckhardt (1539-1607) and his second wife Sabine Magdalene Firck (1564-1651). His sister Regina, the Swabian spiritual mother (1599–1669), married Carl Bardili , the personal physician of Duke Eberhard III.

Chancellor of the Duchy of Württemberg

Peace of Westphalia , painting, oil on copper , by Gerard Terborch from 1648, it shows the ratification of the peace treaty in Münster on May 15, 1648, the raising of the hand of the Spanish and Dutch ambassadors is recorded in the picture

After studying law at the University of Tubingen , which he awarded the degree of Doctor iuris utriusque completed, Andreas Burckhardt entered the service of the Duke of Württemberg Eberhard III. During his tenure as Chancellor, Andreas Burckhardt accompanied Johann Konrad Varnbüler in 1648 to the negotiations on the prerequisites for ending the Thirty Years' War in Münster and Osnabrück , which were ratified in the contractual agreements, the Treaty of the Peace of Westphalia .

Testamentary disposition - establishment of a family foundation

Andreas Burckhardt made 1647 a testamentary disposition mortis causa establishing a family foundation , which was equipped with a considerable amount of its assets, as none of his four biological children from his three marriages (in 1619 with Anna Maria Lotter, 1622 with Christine Schloßberger and 1639 with Anna Regina Kreidemann) had reached adulthood. The financial resources from this foundation were used for the education of his numerous nephews .

Others

In Tübingen, a memorial plaque on Burckhardt's parents' house (Haaggasse 19) commemorates Burckhardt as Chancellor and savior of the country in the Great War and his sister Regina, the Swabian spiritual mother .

swell

  • Hanns Wolfgang Rath: Regina, the Swabian spirit mother . Reprint of the 1st edition Ludwigsburg / Leipzig 1927. Newly edited, supplemented and expanded by Hansmartin Decker-Hauff. Limburg ad Lahn: Strong, 1981.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ tuebingen.de
personal data
SURNAME Burckhardt, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Württemberg lawyer and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Württemberg
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1594
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1651
Place of death Stuttgart