Andreas Ramdohr

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Portrait of Andreas Ramdohr, unknown artist 1653

Andreas Ramdohr (born April 12, 1613 in Aschersleben ; † July 22, 1656 in Braunschweig ) was a German legal scholar and envoy to Duke August II of Braunschweig.

Life

Andreas Ramdohr came from the Central German Ramdohr family and was the first son (and the only one of four siblings who reached an age over 18 years) from the marriage of his father Joachim Ramdohr (* 1587 as the son of the mayor in Ermsleben; † June 20, 1667 as a city dignitary in Aschersleben; portrait in the gallery to the right of the organ of St. Stephani zu Aschersleben) with Armgart Ebert. Andreas Ramdohr first attended the Latin school in Aschersleben, founded in 1325. Ramdohr completed the last three school years from 1629 onwards at the Quedlinburg high school under the rectorate of Johann Prätorius , where he “ [...] not only belongs to the Logicam, Rhetoricam, Ethicam and Arthmeticam, but also in the Hebrew, Greek and Latin languages so far that he wrote and delivered different orationes with great praise in the same languages. "

From 1633 he studied philosophy, ethics, politics, geography and then law at the University of Jena, where he also worked as an information provider for young students from noble families such as Christian Günther and Albert Philipp von Schlotheim . From 1638 Ramdohr himself was allowed to give lectures and in 1641 obtained the doctorate of both rights with the dissertation De decimis . From January 5, 1642 he was an associate professor and court advocate and represented the law faculty in Jena. However, he left after a farewell lecture entitled Disput. de Syndicis soon left the University of Jena, as he was appointed Syndic on July 2, 1643 and, in 1649, as the successor of the late Johann Camman, Proto-Syndic of the city ​​of Braunschweig. For Duke August the Younger there , Ramdohr headed over 22 embassies to foreign courts in the years that followed and provided diplomatic services in negotiations with generals, kings and princes during the Thirty Years' War . He was present at the negotiations in Osnabrück that led to the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 , and in early 1649 he negotiated in Leipzig with the Swedish military leader Count Königsmarck . Ramdohr also took part in the Regensburg Reichstag in 1653 as the Braunschweig envoy. Within the Braunschweig territory itself, he was also extremely active and, according to traditional judgment books, settled around 1200 legal cases in the 13 years of his tenure.

Vita of Andreas Ramdohr, in Zeumer 1731

In addition, he wrote numerous legal writings, which were mentioned in 1750 in Christian Gottlieb Jöcher's lexicon of scholars , possibly also worked as a traveling book agent for his Duke in the construction of the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel ( Bibliotheca Augusta , at the time the largest library in Europe) and was ultimately recognized for his services raised to imperial nobility. Ramdohr remained in the city of Braunschweig until his early death from a lung disease and exhaustion ( Catharris tandem frequentibus afflictus, viribus consumtis, vivere desièt ). In Braunschweig, Hamburg and Aschersleben renowned citizens wrote 35 memorial poems on the occasion of his death, and at his former university in Jena the professors honored his life's work in the form of a volume with 17 obituaries, which today serve as a rich source for Ramdohr's biography. His epitaph with the still decipherable inscription D. ANDREAE RAMDOHR, ASCANIENSIS can be found on the outer wall of the Church of St. Martini (Braunschweig) .

Epitaph for Andreas Ramdohr, St. Martini (Braunschweig). Ramdohr's coat of arms can be found at the top left.

progeny

1647 married Andreas Ramdohr with Dorothea Schulte (* March 27, 1629; † August 12, 1674), a sister of Johann Schulte and daughter of the Hamburg senior elder in the parish of Sankt Petri , Albert Schulte (1576-1652) and Gertrud von der Fechte . From this marriage there were five children, including Albrecht (also: Albert ) Andreas von Ramdohr . The descendants of the noble family " von Ramdohr " known by name in the Hanoverian-Braunschweig area, once often members of the state patrimony there , go back to him, including the lawyer and author Basilius von Ramdohr, who became famous through the "Ramdohrstreit" .

Heraldic derivation of the family coat of arms

On a portrait made in 1653 the coat of arms of the Ramdohr family is shown at the top right; see. German nobility lexicon . Leipzig 1930, and W.-D. Ostermann, Halle 1999. It shows under a horned tournament helmet, a split shield with a soaring yellow lion on a blue background, on the left three red diagonal bars on a white background. A lithograph can also be found in Hermann Grote (Hrsg.): Sex and coat of arms book of the Kingdom of Hanover and the Duchy of Braunschweig . 1843. The coat of arms is still in use today.

literature

  • M. Johann Caspar Zeumer: Vitae professorum jurium qui in illustri academia Jenensi from ipsius fundatione ad nostra tempora vixerunt. Jena 1711, p. 132.
  • Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : General lexicon of scholars. Leipzig 1750–1751, 4 volumes, supplemented by Johann Gottlob Wilhelm Dunkel (1755–60), by Johann Christoph Adelung (1784–87), reissued and continued by Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund (Bremen 1810–22, 6 volumes). Supplementary volume 6.
  • Hermann Grote (Hrsg.): Gender and coat of arms book of the Kingdom of Hanover and the Duchy of Braunschweig. 1843 and 1852.
  • Herbert Koch: Andreas Ramdohr, professor in Jena 1613–1656. In: Jenaer Volksblatt. August 1, 1910.
  • Ramdohr. In: Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Leipzig 1859-1870; Reprint: Leipzig 1930, Volume 7. Ossa – Ryssel. P. 331 ( books.google.de ).
  • Theodor Lockemann, Friedrich Schneider: The register of the University of Jena. Volume I: 1548-1652. Jena University Library, Jena 1944.
  • Joachim Lampe: Aristocracy, court nobility and state patriciate in Kurhannover. Volume 1, p. 259 f. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 1963.
  • Lauenburg homeland. Volume 120, p. 79 ff., Heimatbund and Geschichtsverein Herzogtum Lauenburg, Ratzeburg 1998, ISSN  0724-4282 .
  • Wolf-Dieter Ostermann: Life pictures from Harz and Börde. Volume 1, Halle 1999, ISBN 3-933046-35-1 . (Biography of Andreas Ramdohr on pp. 19-26).
  • Sabine Wehking : The German inscriptions. Volume 9. Göttinger series, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-89500-251-8 . (Edited by Sabine Wehking based on a collection of materials made by Dietrich Mack from 1945–1986 ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Emil Straßburger: History of the city of Aschersleben. Reprint. Naumburger Verlags-Anstalt, Naumburg / Saale 2003, p. 297.
  2. ^ Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : continuation and additions to Christian Gottlieb Joecher's general scholarly lexico (Johann G. Heyse, Bremen 1819). P. 1299 ( books.google.de )
  3. ↑ Stolzenau, Martin: Syndic shows a lot of negotiating skills. Andreas Ramdohr died 350 years ago In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. October 20, 2006 mz online ( Memento from September 9, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ).
  4. ↑ Ludwig Hänselmann : Duke Rudolf August and his gentlemen and fathers of Braunschweig. In: Yearbook of the history association for the Duchy of Braunschweig. Volume 3, 1904, p. 14 ( books.google.de ).
  5. ^ JG Tiedemann: The nobility of Mecklenburg since the land constitutional hereditary comparisons (1775). 1864, p. 209 ( books.google.de ).
  6. ↑ Dietrich Mack: Dt.Inschriften. Munich 2001, p. 490 ( books.google.de ).
  7. ^ Friedrich Georg Buek: Albert Schulte . In: The Hamburg Oberalts, their civil effectiveness and their families . Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1857, OCLC 844917815 , p. 95 ( books.google.de ).
  8. ^ Werner Konstantin von Arnswaldt : Die Dörriens. Issue 1: The Dörrien family in Alfeld, Hildesheim and Braunschweig. Leipzig 1910, p. 50 ( original research retrieved on July 6, 2020.) "Albert ( Albrecht ) Schulte was the son of the bailiff zu Bergedorf , Mecklenburg council and Hamburg lawyer as well as council relative Johann Schulte (* around 1570, son of the Hamburg patrician Andreas Schulte and Caecilia Huyen) and Anna Oldehorst (* around 1570). His wife Gertrud von der Fechte (born March 26, 1629 in Hamburg, † August 12, 1674 in Braunschweig) was the daughter of the Hamburg senior citizen and church jury to St. Catharines and chamberlain Albrecht von der Fechte, a son of the Hamburg patrician Martin von der Fechte and Gertrud Hackmann, and Anna von der Wouweren from Brabant, a relative of Johann von Wowern "
personal data
SURNAME Ramdohr, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ramdohr, Andreas von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and syndic of the city of Braunschweig
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1613
PLACE OF BIRTH Aschersleben
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1656
Place of death Braunschweig