Anthonius Lucius

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Christophorus Anthonius Lucius (also: Christoph Anton Lucius and Anthon Lucius or Anton Lucius ; born January 1, 1635 in Rinteln ; died September 4, 1704 in Hanover ) was a well-known scholar of his time and university professor at the Alma Ernestina from 1663 to 1670. The Correspondent with the polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz played a role in the so-called Königsmarck affair as the electoral Braunschweig-Lüneburg court advisor and legal advisor to the sovereign .

Life

Grave slab with the coat of arms of Anthon Lucius on the Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis , Calenberger Neustadt, Hanover

Anthonius Lucius was a son and one of six children of Petrus Lucius (1590-1656) and his wife Agnes Bonau (Agnes Baunag; 1602-1665). His father was from 1622 to 1656 university printer at the University of Rinteln.

Lucius studied philosophy at the University of Rinteln at the age of 15. In 1653 he finished his studies with a disputation on the subject of De malo principe sive tyranno with Reinhard König . From October 23, 1657, the following further studies, first at the Illustre grammar school in Bremen , then since his matriculation April 7, 1658 at the University of Gießen and from 1659 at the Alma Mater Rostochiensis in Rostock , where he received his “Iur. May 22, 1660 me Alb. Willebrando rectore ”.

In the period from April 4, 1663 to 1670, Lucius was an associate professor at the law faculty of the University of Rinteln. Ibid he was also in 1664 with the work Theses iuridicæ miscellæ inaugurales at Johann Martin Brandes doctorate .

Around 1665, Lucius was appointed to the Schaumburg-Lippischen Rat and then worked at the royal seat of Bückeburg .

From 1683, Lucius worked as the Electoral Braunschweig-Lüneburg Court Councilor in Hanover . As legal advisor to Elector Georg Ludwig, who later ascended the English throne as George I in personal union between Great Britain and Hanover , Lucius advised the Elector "when he divorced his wife (at the same time his cousin) Sophie Dorothea ", who then became "Princess of Ahlden" became known. According to the historian Friedrich Christoph Förster , Lucius is said to have been a friend of the Electoral Princess and possibly a witness to the detailed description of the murder of Philipp Christoph von Königsmarck , the Heidelberg-born wax boss and lacquer artist Bernhard Zeuyner who was employed by the Electoral Princess after the crime Have helped liveried people to escape.

Between 1692 and 1696 Lucius sold the Oberstenhof in Bückeburg to the Graf Schaumburg-Lippi.

Lucius was buried in the Calenberger Neustadt in the Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis . His tombstone can now be found on the outside wall of the church.

family

Anthonius Lucius' first daughter was buried in Rinteln in 1659. His daughter Lucia Magdalena (baptized on October 28, 1665 in Rinteln; died on January 3, 1744 in Dannenberg) married the Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Johann Philip Quirll , on December 5, 1689 in Bückeburg .

Leibniz correspondent

Anton Lucius is mentioned in numerous places in the correspondence of the universal scholar Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , which is part of the UNESCO World Document Heritage . Lucius himself wrote a letter to Leibniz on April 9, 1697.

Lucius library

From March 1705, the bookseller Nicolaus Förster auctioned off the library of the late court advisor Lucius in three parts. In this way Leibniz acquired books from the Lucian heirs for the Augusta Library in Wolfenbüttel. From the library of the deceased, which was mainly comprised of oriental books, 218 volumes for 155 thalers were transferred to the Augusta.

Art collection

After the court councilor's death, an auction of the entire household of the “Churfürstl, Braunschw.” Took place on July 25, 1706 in “Hanover, Auf der Neustadt in the Mrs. Commissariin von Windheim's dwelling”. Lüneb. Hoff = Rath Mr. Anton Lucio ”instead. In an auction catalog - preserved today in the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel (HABW) - very early, anonymously printed auction catalog for its time, in addition to numerous art objects, statues, figures, porcelain, "all sorts of strange foreign rarities and curiosities" as well as furniture and portraits, for example Alabaster or wood, among other things, also offered 115 lots of “paintings and shields”. The more than 100 paintings included mostly portrait miniatures without an artist's signature , but also pictures by Lucas Cranach the Elder and a portrait of Martin Luther and, as his counterpart, that of his wife from 1526.

literature

Sales catalog:

  • Directory from Weyl. The Elector. Braunschw. Lüneb. Hoff = Rath / Mr. Anton Lucio, left behind large and small paintings and shields / various art made from amber as well as from Helffenbein = pieces; Porcelain and serpentines clean vessels and dishes; All sorts of statues and figures / also portraits made of alabaster / plaster / wax and wood: All sorts of strange foreign rarities and curiosities / propre and curieuse furniture; also ultimately a large number / of the copper pieces made by the most famous masters; Which everything on the Neustadt Hannover in the Mrs. Commissariin of Windheim dwelling on June 25th and the following days / morning at 9th and afternoon at 3rd o'clock / publicly to the highest bidder is to be sold / and to be administered against cash payment , Hannover MDCCV

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Registration of Christophorus Anthonius Lucius in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ Inscription on the tombstone of the deceased
  3. ↑ a b c d Annette von Boetticher : 16th gravestone of the electoral court counselor Dr. Anton Lucius , in this: Gravestones, epitaphs and memorial plaques of the Evangelical Lutheran. Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis in Hanover , brochure ed. from their church council, Hannover: Eigenverlag, 2002, p. 15
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Ferdinand Victor Lucius, Richard Lucius, Julius Lucius, Wilhelm Schäfer, Alexander Röder, Falk J. Lucius: Introductory notes on the history of the Lucius families (with biographies of Anthonius Lucius and Petrus Lucius, among others) ( Memento from 27 September 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ a b c d Lucius, Anton (September 4, 1704) in the personal and correspondence database of the Leibniz Edition of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
  6. ^ Friedrich Christoph Förster: Friedrich August II, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony; his time, his cabinet and his court , published by Ferdinand Riegel, Potsdam 1839, p. 411ff., vas 413; Digitized via Google books
  7. ↑ Introduction , in Nora Gädeke, Monika Meier (edit.), Sven Erdner (collabor.): Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. All writings and letters , ed. from the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, 1st row: General political and historical correspondence , Volume 24: October 1704-July 1705 , Berlin: Boston: De Gruyter Academy Research, 2015, ISBN 9783110399608 and ISBN 3110399601 , here: S. LI; as a PDF document from the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library
  8. ^ Files of the II. International Leibniz Congress Hanover, 17.-22. July 1972 (= Studia Leibnitiana. Supplementa ), Volume 12: Welcoming speeches, overall interpretations, history, law, social theory, historical effects, reports , Wiesbaden: F. Steiner, 1973, p. 79; limited preview in Google Book search
  9. ↑ a b Thomas Ketelsen, Tilmann von Stockhausen: Directory of paintings sold in German-speaking countries before 1800 (= The index of paintings sold in German speaking countries before 1800. The provenance index of the Getty Research Institute ), ed. Burton B. Fredericksen and Julia I. Armstrong with the assistance of Michael Müller, Munich: K G. Saur Verlag, 2002, ISBN 978-3-598-24490-2 and 3-598-24490-8, p. 56; limited preview in Google Book search
personal data
SURNAME Lucius, Anthonius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lucius, Anton; Lucius, Anthon; Lucius, Christophorus Anthonius; Lucius, Christoph Anton; Lucio, Anthon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1635
PLACE OF BIRTH Rinteln
DATE OF DEATH September 4, 1704
Place of death Hanover