Andreas Cassius (lawyer)

Andreas Cassius (born December 2, 1563 in Pollnow ; † August 6, 1618 in Schleswig ) was a German lawyer and office secretary.

Live and act

Andreas Cassius was a son of the Pollnower citizen Carsten (Christian) Caßke and his wife Catharina, née Cramon, who came from Pollnow. After attending schools in Pollnow and Köslin , he moved to the Katharineum in Lübeck . From October 1585 he studied at the University of Rostock , but was unable to complete his studies due to financial problems. He then worked as a tutor for the royal Danish councilor Joachim Reiche in Lübeck. He then worked for a year and a half as the rector of the Ratzeburg Cathedral School and for four years as the private tutor of the nobleman Jürgen Sehestedt on Perdoel (now part of Belau ).

Cassius' employer Sehestedt had two sons named Alexander and Cai, whom he looked after as court master. Together with them he went to Heidelberg , where he enrolled at the university there on July 14, 1595 in order to continue his own studies. For almost three years he then attended the Academic Gymnasium in Strasbourg . He then studied together with a son of the Flensburg bailiff Claus von Ahlefeldt on Gelting in Helmstedt and Marburg. Then he went on a study trip.

The Gottorf Chancellor Nicolaus Junge recommended Cassius to work as a lawyer. Cassius followed the advice and moved to Schleswig in 1600. In June 1603 he followed a call from the Gottorf law firm and, as a young secretary, took on the most important position in the management of administration and justice. Cassius worked here until 1615 and then worked again as a lawyer and councilor in Schleswig. Why he made the change is not documented. It can be assumed that the conflicts between Lutherans and cryptocalvinists at the Gottorfer Hof were decisive. His friend Christian Schlee said in the funeral sermon that Cassius was very orthodox and that his opponents had persecuted him "for Christ's sake". He had "much rather chosen to suffer hardship than to have the temporal discharge of damned unbelief". Schlee also pointed out that Cassius had always worked to improve the Schleswig Cathedral School and to create public order in the city.

family

Cassius was married to Sophia Festersen († 1645 in Eutin ). She was a daughter of the Flensburg merchant and councilor Fester (Sylvester) Festersen and Helene Pommerening, who in turn was a daughter of the Nordstrander land clerk Hans Pommenering and the daughter of the Flensburg mayor Agatha Fincke.

Cassius had four daughters and four sons, of whom Andreas, Helena, Christian, Johann, Catharina and Sophia were still living at the time of his death.

• Andreas Cassius moved to Hamburg and had two sons named Andreas (* 1645; † around 1700 in Lübeck ) and Johannes Andreas (* 1651; † 1720 in Hamburg) who, like himself, took up the medical profession. Johannes Andreas Cassius had five children, including Andreas (1681–1736) and Hieronymus (1657–1754), who also worked as doctors in Hamburg.
• Christian Cassius worked as a lawyer and privy councilor to the Prince-Bishop of Lübeck. He died childless.
• Johann Cassius († 1649) worked in 1637 and 1641 as Gottorfer house bailiff in Lügumkloster. He had a son named Andreas who studied in Rostock, Jena and Helmstedt and then apparently worked for the House of Hanover. Even Christian Cassius (1640-1699) was probably one of his sons. Another son could have been Martin Cassius († 1708). He initially worked as a Danish field preacher and from 1675 as a pastor on Poel . However, there is no reliable evidence for this family connection.
• Catharina Cassius (1613–1669) first married Johann Lucht († 1640) in 1632, who worked as administrator of Lügumkloster . In 1644 she married Daniel Janus (1661–1669), who was superintendent in Eutin at the time. He later moved to Güstrow as superintendent .

literature

• Dieter Lohmeier: Cassius, Andreas . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 6 - 1982. ISBN 3-529-02646-8 , pages 46-47.

Web links

• Publications by and about Andreas Cassius in VD 17 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal